 | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
The recent exodus of executives and technical talent at MySpace has only bolstered my belief that the social networking site is nothing more than a carcass of its former self. In fact, it’s been rotting away for the past few years, as these charts illustrate.
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Photo services company Smilebox today announced it has added $2 million in additional funding to its previously raised $7 million second round. The funds will help the company expand its services into Europe.
Smilebox offers a platform that takes sharing photos to another level. Users add designs, make scrapbooks or slideshows, and send e-cards using their favorite photos. The company calls these digital creations. The service utilizes any kind of media, including photos, videos or music and can be sent by traditional email or be printed, burned to DVD, saved to photo frame or posted on a blog. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
A Twitter executive who suggested during an advertising industry panel that the company was within a month or so of launching its advertising platform has denied this interpretation of his comments, and says while the company is working on a platform, its launch is not imminent.
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
We’ve tapped some more smart people who know the gaming business as speakers for our upcoming GamesBeat@GDC executive game conference. The event is set for March 10 in San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference in the Moscone Convention Center. Today we’re announcing the following speakers have been added to our lineup:
Tim Chang, principal, Norwest Venture Partners. Chang will be part of our panel entitled The Best Disruptive Game Investment Opportunities for 2010 and Beyond. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond, global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer, and former chief financial officer George Reyes — he retired in 2008 — were found guilty by a judge in Milan, Italy this morning of invasion of privacy for allowing a 2006 YouTube post that showed a young man with Down’s syndrome being bullied.
A fourth defendant, Google Video exec Arvind Desikan, was cleared of charges. The Italian woman who uploaded the video was previously sentenced to ten months of community service by a court in Turin. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond, global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer, and former chief financial officer George Reyes — he retired in 2008 — were found guilty by a judge in Milan, Italy this morning of invasion of privacy for allowing a 2006 Google Video post that showed a young man with Down’s syndrome being bullied.
A fourth defendant, Google Video exec Arvind Desikan, was cleared of charges. The Italian woman who uploaded the video was previously sentenced to 10 months of community service by a court in Turin. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Nintendo of America announced this morning that it will begin selling the Nintendo DS XL starting March 28 in the U.S.
The new version of the portable game handheld will have a 93 percent bigger screen and sell for $189.99. The screen is viewable from the side and so it creates a more social experience, said Cammie Dunaway, head of marketing and sales at Nintendo of America, at the company’s media summit this morning.
The DS remains the most popular handheld game system, selling a record 11. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Nintendo of America announced this morning that it will begin selling the Nintendo DSi XL starting March 28 in the U.S.
The new version of the portable game handheld will have a 93 percent bigger screen and sell for $189.99. The screen is viewable from the side and so it will create a more social experience, said Cammie Dunaway, head of marketing and sales at Nintendo of America, at the company’s media summit this morning.
The DS remains the most popular handheld game system, selling a record 11. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Is nothing sacred?! On Wednesday night, Youtube finally pulled down the original “Rickroll” video, which featured ’80s pop icon Rick Astley singing the now infamous “Never Gonna Give You Up.” If you try to visit the video now, you’ll be confronted with a message that it has been removed for “terms of use violation.”
Youtube hasn’t commented on the change yet, but I’d be interested to know what made it enforce terms of use on the video after its long and storied history. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Update: According to NeoWin, YouTube says that the video removal was a mistake. The video is now back online, and another Internet pillar lives on. Find the original story below.
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Is nothing sacred?! On Wednesday night, YouTube finally pulled down the original “Rickroll” video, which featured ’80s pop icon Rick Astley singing the now infamous “Never Gonna Give You Up.” If you try to visit the video now, you’ll be confronted with a message that it has been removed for “terms of use violation. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Weebly, the most popular among a batch of startups offering easy-to-use website building tools, is settings its sights overseas with the first launch of the non-English Weebly services.
The San Francisco company already offered country-specific domains (such as .co.uk domains in the United Kingdom), but to reach a big international audience you need to speak their language. Weebly is making that happen starting today with the launch of sites in French, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese. Co-founder and chief executive David Rusenko said the San Francisco company saved money by having the initial translation done by users, then having professional reviewers double-check those translations. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
For Clearwire, 2010 is the year it makes it or breaks it. As part of its annual results today Clearwire said it will triple its number of subscribers this year. To do that it will cover 120 million people and spend up to $3.2 billion.
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
CA, company formerly known as Computer Associates is buying buying Aliso Viejo, CA-based 3Tera for an undisclosed amount as part of its ongoing makeover to capture the opportunities presented by cloud computing. It is competing with IBM, HP and BMC for attention and market opportunities.
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Scribd, a popular site where people can share and sell written content, is unveiling its grand strategy for mobile devices today, one that definitely goes beyond just releasing an iPhone application.
“There’s a lot of great competition in the [e-reading] market,” said co-founder and chief executive Trip Adler. “But rather than try to build our own device, we’re just going to try to be on all devices.”
Adler told me that there are three main components to the San Francisco company’s strategy. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Apple’s iPad which is soon going to find its way into the market has drawn criticism and scorn from many a few technorati. Neil Young, chief executive and co-founder of San Francisco-based mobile gaming start-up, ngmoco isn’t one of them. Not only does he think that [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Apple’s iPad, which is soon going to find its way onto the market, has drawn criticism and scorn from many a technorati. But Neil Young, chief executive and co-founder of San Francisco-based mobile gaming startup ngmoco, isn’t one of them. Not only does he think that [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
The Open Angel Forum, a free, meetup-style event hosted by technology industry raconteur Jason Calacanis through which five startups are subsequently matched up with angel investors, is coming to San Francisco on March 4th.
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Korea’s Danal Corp. has decided to buy back a controlling stake in its U.S. mobile payments subsidiary, BilltoMobile, in a transaction that closes this week, VentureBeat has learned.
The deal values San Jose, Calif.-based BilltoMobile at a little less than $100 million, according to a reliable source. Ownership of the subidiary was roughly divided among founders-employees, the parent firm Danal Co., and Morgenthaler Ventures. So Danal, which has pioneered mobile payments in Korea, is likely spending tens of millions of dollars to buy back the subsidiary. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
(Editor’s note: Will Herman is an entrepreneur who has founded or held senior roles at several tech companies. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
Every company needs a board of directors – even startups.
Well, OK, maybe not every company. Raw startups – two people in a garage kinda thing – shouldn’t waste their time with anything formal. But young companies – those that are established and on their way, regardless of their size or level of funding should, as should any company more established than that. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Citrix Online, the division of Citrix Systems that provides remote, web-based services, just announced the acquisition of Paglo, a search tool for IT managers.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based Paglo describes itself as “Google for IT.” Its tools allow customers to search a company network for all connected devices, check the status of those devices, monitor server health, install software patches, and more. The acquisition allows Citrix to add IT management to its roster of services, which includes things like GoToMeeting (web meetings) and GoToTraining (remote training). [...]
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