Apple-Google rivalry doesn’t stop Jobs and Schmidt from getting coffeeFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology The relationship between Google and Apple has been cooling for a while now. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt left the Apple’s board of directors last year because the two companies were increasingly competing head-to-head. And despite claims of mutual admiration, a long article published earlier this month in The New York Times highlighted how the rivalry has turned personal, with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs feeling betrayed by Google’s decision to enter the smartphone market. [...] Read more |
Facebook Auto-Connect? Social network shares data with ‘pre-approved’ sitesFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Facebook said it may automatically share data about users with special partners the minute they visit a site for a more ‘personalized’ experience. The changes are part of new privacy policy the company proposed today. The company didn’t say who these pre-approved partners would be, but said that there would be an opt-out. When a user visits one of these sites, Facebook may hand over information including their name, their friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, connections, and any content shared using the ‘Everyone’ privacy setting. [...] Read more |
Facebook Auto-Connect? Social network shares your data with ‘pre-approved’ sitesFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Facebook said it may automatically share data about users with special partners the minute they visit a site for a more ‘personalized’ experience. The changes are part of new privacy policy the company proposed today. The company didn’t say who these pre-approved partners would be, but said that there would be an opt-out. When a user visits one of these sites, Facebook may hand over information including their name, their friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, connections, and any content shared using the ‘Everyone’ privacy setting. [...] Read more |
Facebook may automatically share your data with ‘pre-approved’ partnersFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Facebook said it may start automatically sharing data about users with special partners the minute they visit a site for a more ‘personalized’ experience. The changes are part of a new privacy policy the company proposed today. The company didn’t say who these pre-approved partners would be, but said that site members would be able to opt-out of having their data shared. When a user visits partner sites, Facebook may hand over information including their name, their friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, connections, and any content shared using the ‘Everyone’ privacy setting. [...] Read more |
Telecom gear maker Calix goes public at top of rangeFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Petaluma, Calif.-based Calix, maker of broadband hardware and software unknowingly used by many rural customers in America, completed an initial public offering today for which shares were priced at $13.00. Reuters reports that the price was at the top of the company’s expected range. The company’s name is pronounced with a short a. It’s New York Stock Exchange symbol is CALX. In today’s offering, Calix sold 6.3 million shares, raising an estimated $82.3 million. VentureBeat covered the company’s $100 million funding round last August. [...] Read more |
Facebook proposes new location policies, says you’ll be able to tag placesFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Facebook proposed a few changes to its privacy policy today, and notably it’s taking a much broader approach to including location. Now the company hasn’t launched geotagging or “checking in” yet, but in the most recent version of its privacy policy first released last year, the company said it would allow people to add “a location to something you post.” They’ve made that a lot vaguer now, and instead you can tag posts with a “place” like a Fan Page. [...] Read more |
Facebook’s proposed location policies hint that friends can tag you at placesFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Facebook proposed a few changes to its privacy policy today, and notably it’s taking a much broader approach to including location. The company hasn’t launched geotagging or “checking in” yet. But in the most recent version of its privacy policy released last year, the company said it would allow people to add “a location to something you post.” They’ve made that a lot vaguer now, and instead you can tag posts with a “place” like a Fan Page. Making geotagging compatible with Fan Pages could make Facebook’s local pages a lot richer and maybe even competitive to Google’s Place Pages or Yelp’s listings. [...] Read more |
Wikipedia prepares for user interface liftFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology The Wikimedia Foundation, creators of popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, just announced that during the week of April 5, the site will begin rolling out changes in the default user interface settings for projects. The changes should make for a better user experience in finding and sharing content, according to the company’s blog. The company claims some 500,000 current users have been beta testing the new interface for the last six months, but for those who haven’t can expect a few changes. [...] Read more |
In the App Economy Does the Mobile Browser Matter?Friday, March 26, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Mobile broadband consumption shows no signs of slowing, but the way people access the mobile web could be changing. As more smartphone titles appear, use of mobile browsers could actually decrease as applications offer more useful bite-sized chunks of the web. Read more |
Angels sing: ‘frankly ridiculous’ restrictions might ‘destroy Silicon Valley’Friday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Angel investors don’t usually stay up at night worrying about Capitol Hill. But a financial reform bill proposed by Chris Dodd, the Democrat chairing the Senate Banking Committee, includes new restrictions on startups and angels. Not surprisingly, investors aren’t happy about it, saying it’s “insane,” “frankly ridiculous,” and aims to “destroy Silicon Valley.” There are three changes that should have a particular effect on angel investors, a catch-all category which includes everyone from friends and family members who invest in a startup, to unaffiliated wealthy individuals, to side investments made by venture capitalists acting on their own. [...] Read more |
Nokia buys Novarra to bolster its mobile web browser capabilitiesFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Nokia said today it has purchased Novarra, a maker of mobile web browsing technology. The companies didn’t discloe the purchase price. Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, currently builds its own mobile browser, so it can incorporate the Illinois company’s technology into its own future browsers. Since data service usage is skyrocketing, having a good mobile web browser is essential. Novarra was founded in 1999 and raised $50 million in funding in 2007. Novarra makes web-based technologies for low-end mobile feature phones. [...] Read more |
Understand the $1.4T IT Market Shake-up at Structure 2010 — Register Now and Get $100 Off!Friday, March 26, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media GigaOM’s flagship conference, Structure, returns on June 23rd and 24th for two days of deep insight into the Cloud Computing industry. Register now and receive $100 off your ticket. Read more |
Nokia Nabs Novarra For Better Browsing on Low-End PhonesFriday, March 26, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Nokia said today that it has purchased Novarra, a company that delivers a faster browsing experience on feature phones. There are only 400 million smartphones among 4.6 billion total mobile subscribers, so buying a firm to boost browsing for the rest of the world makes sense. Read more |
Our hands-on impressions: Nintendo starts selling DSi XL a week before Apple debuts iPadFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology To buy a DSi XL, or an iPad? That is the question. The coming week is a big one for gamers, as Apple and Nintendo go head-to-head in the handheld gadget market. Nintendo starts the battle on Sunday as it begins selling the DSi XL game handheld for $189.99. Apple follows with the April 3 debut of the iPad, which is a tablet computer with many applications beyond games. On the one hand, the competition between these devices is fierce because gamers aren’t likely to dish out money for both of these gadgets. [...] Read more |
China’s Perfect World acquires Japanese online game operator CC Media for $21MFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology China’s Perfect World has agreed to acquire C&C Media, a Japanese online game operator, for $21 million. Perfect World, which is traded on NASDAQ and has a market value of almost $2 billion, bought the company from Japanese video game publisher Atlus. C&C Media was created in 2001 and it runs MK-Style, a web site with online games and services. Perfect World makes high-end online games such as Perfect World as well as casual online games such as Hot Dance Party. The company has been expanding into a number of territories, including North America. [...] Read more |
Secret Builders raises $2.3M to expand educational virtual world for kidsFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Secret Builders is announcing today that it has raised $2.3 million in funding for its online virtual world with educational games for children. In doing so, it has shown that it’s one of the survivors of what was once a very hot sector now littered with dead companies. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company debuted its Secret Builders web site in December, 2008. It has slowly built up to 1 million registered users, and it now has 350,000 to 400,000 unique monthly visitors from 190 countries. [...] Read more |
The perfect startup team? Grey hair and MohawksFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology A startup team made up solely of college students may find themselves making tons of rookie mistakes, but a company founded by veterans may be trapped in yesterday’s thinking. And any company made up solely of either demographic has virtually no chance of getting VC money. That’s why Heidi Roizen, managing director for Mobius Venture Capital, says the best way to turn heads is to have a combination of both in this older, but still relevant entrepreneur thought leader lecture given at Stanford University. [...] Read more |
Adknowledge launches Cambyo payment gateway to monetize free goodsFriday, March 26, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Adknowledge, which runs a huge private advertising network, is announcing today a new way for online merchants to make money. Its new Cambyo offering is an ad-sponsored payment gateway that lets consumers pay for goods and services by participating in sponsored ad offers. Cambyo gives consumers the choice of paying in standard currency (with a credit card, mobile payments etc.) or participating in sponsored offers. They can get a product or service for free by completing a highly-focused ad offer, such as filling out a research survey or signing up for a movie subscription service. [...] Read more |
Larry Ellison Tears Into SAPFriday, March 26, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media “Every quarter we grab huge chunks of market share from SAP…SAP’s most recent quarter was the best quarter of their year, only down 15%, while Oracle’s application sales were up 21%. But SAP is well ahead of us in the number of CEOs for this year, [...] Read more |
Who owns mobile strategy?Friday, March 26, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile By a href=" http://www.joule.com/" target="_new"Despina Tapaki/apWill media and digital agencies try to hold on to mobile and treat it as an extension of their offering or will they turn to the mobile specialists for help?img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/1X1a62xmZiM" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
