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Thursday, September 23, 2010
SoftBank Capital forked over $3.5 million in funding to mobile entertainment destination MocoSpace.
SoftBank recently invested $150 million in online gaming powerhouse Zynga and apparently wanted to make a play in mobile browser-based social gaming. Read More »
The top bidder so far in an online charity auction to raise money for a Haitian orphanage is willing to pay $14,900 for access to Zachary Levi, star of the TV series “Chuck.” And bids are mounting. Read More »
LinkedIn Buys ChoiceVendor
Silicon Valley-based professional social networking site, LinkedIn, said in a press release that it had acquired ChoiceVendor, a San Francisco start-up that “provides real-world ratings and reviews of business-to-business service providers in more than 70 categories across the United States.” Financial terms of the acquisition are not being released.
The recent loosening of Apple’s developer rules, particularly the company’s decision to remove a prohibition against “intermediary translation or compatibility layers” in iOS apps, hasn’t done much for Adobe. Read More »
Twitter Does Not Have a New York Office
Just a “temporary space” where people who work for Twitter out of New York go and…work. That’s the word from Twitter PR to Read Write Web, who made the mistake of thinking that Twitter had a New York Office because that’s what someone who works for Twitter wrote on Twitter. Tired? I know. But now that Twitter is a media company, with a big deal ad sales guy and everything, it really might be a good idea to open a New York Office someday. Right?
The question is: Which movie was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinking about when he decided recently to fork over $100 million to public schools in Newark, New Jersey?
Was it a bid to spiff up his image–with a splashy announcement on Oprah Winfrey’s popular television talk show tomorrow–on the very same day of the New York premiere of “The Social Network,” which casts Zuckerberg as the villain in his own creation myth.
Or was it another film, “Waiting for Superman,” a just released gripping documentary about the crisis in public education.
Either way, Newark wins. Read More »
If Anssi Vanjoki is anything, he’s direct. At Nokia World in London, the outgoing executive talked about what he did right in his nearly 20 years with the company, what went wrong and why the Finnish handset maker is struggling in the smartphone market. Read More »
Here is the just released new trailer from the first part of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” which is set to debut November 19.
And, from the looks of it, things are not going to go well for the boy who did not die, as Voldemort seems very much in command in this darkest of movies in the long-running series. Read More »
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Here’s the new Forbes.com, the product of four months of work by new editorial boss Lewis D’vorkin. The redesign isn’t rolled out sitewide yet, but you can get a good sense of it by heading to the new Forbes 400 list out tonight. The important changes, though, are happening under the hood, where D’Vorkin is rethinking what a journalist does, and how a journalist gets paid. Read More »
Some Facebook users were having problems accessing the site Wednesday, as the social-networking giant apparently faced a rare outage that left it intermittently unavailable. The site wrote on its Twitter account that some people haven’t been able to connect to the site because of “an issue with a third-party network provider.” Read More »
With its share of the U.S. search market greater than Yahoo’s and increasing, you’d think that Microsoft would have little use for the gimmicks its relied on in the past to offset the public’s indifference to its search offering. Particularly since they never seemed to do it much good. Read More »
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »
“Extras are to look really excited, particularly if asked by media to do any interviews about the prospect of Netflix in Canada.” Read More »
FCC to Rebuild Using Drupal
FCC Managing Director Steven VanRoekel announced today that–following in the footsteps of Whitehouse.gov, Commerce.gov and Ed.gov–the Federal Communications Commission will be rebuilding its Web site using the open source content management system Drupal. In the announcement, VanRoekel states that “This decision is a significant step towards modernizing our own underlying online infrastructure.”
“Our whole strategy is not to build any specific device or integration or anything like that. Because we’re not trying to compete with Apple or the Droid or any other hardware manufacturer for that matter. Our strategy is very horizontal. We’re trying to build a social layer for everything.”
– Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on rumors that company is developing a Facebook phone
Earlier Posts
- Czech Republic Rejects Google Street View Over Privacy Concerns on Voices
- Dell Working on 7-Inch Android Tablet on Digital Daily
- Comcast Unlikely to Boost Investment in Clearwire on Voices
- QOTD on Digital Daily
- Australian Teenager Unwittingly Unleashed Twitter Chaos on Voices
- Real-Time Web Analytics Start-Up Chartbeat Tallies Up More Investors on MediaMemo
- Infineon: We’d Like to Roll In Intel’s Money a Bit Before We Spend It on Digital Daily
- Will Bill Gates Support New Income Tax for Wealthy? on Voices
- Tim Armstrong Won’t Talk About AOL’s Secret Video Plans on MediaMemo
- One Million iPhones Sold in South Korea on Digital Daily
An American in Paris Says Au Revoir to His Laptop
Lots of people are wondering whether a touch-based tablet computer that doesn't have a physical keyboard or run a traditional operating system can replace their laptops on the road. Walt decided to find out. Read More »
