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| Apr 3, 2011 | Email Breach At Email Marketer Epsilon Affects TiVo, Citi, Marriott And More | photo © 2006 Gene Tew | more info (via: Wylio)In case you haven’t already received the ominous sounding email, data held by email marketing firm Epsilon was compromised earlier this week — the hack apparently executed by one person.
The bre... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Google And China At It Again With Government Gmail Block | photo © 2010 Cory M. Grenier | more info (via: Wylio)After weeks of Gmail issues in China, Google has confirmed today that the problems stem from Chinese government’s interference. The search engine gave this statement to us and other media... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | NYTimes Paywall Limit To Extend Beyond Google To "All Major Search Engines" | photo © 2006 Sharon Mollerus | more info (via: Wylio)When the details of the New York Times paywall/fence were announced on Thursday, Times PR representatives told press that it would be placing a five article a day limit on Google referral... |
| Mar 12, 2011 | How To “Win” SXSW: Hint – It’s The Same Answer Every Year | photo © 2006 Liz Henry | more info (via: Wylio)Editor’s Note: René Pinnell is CEO and Co-Founder of Hurricane Party, a free iPhone app that makes it easy and fun to create spontaneous events with your friends. He has lived in Austin for the... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Bing, NYT And Everybody Else Wants A Piece Of Groupon's Success | photo © 2007 Ed Schipul | more info (via: Wylio)Does anyone know where I can find some daily deals? Everywhere. Taking a cue from the New York Times and everyone else in the world Bing has launched a daily deals service today, Bing Deals.
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| Mar 1, 2011 | Internet Up For Nobel Peace Prize Again, Let's Hope It Wins This Time | photo © 2008 Julian Burgess | more info (via: Wylio)The Internet, which was nominated but lost to Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo last year, is up for the Nobel Peace Prize again this year. This year’s 241 nominations surpassed las... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Groupon Files SEC Form For Another $16.2 Million | photo © 2007 Kevin Lawver | more info (via: Wylio)Wait wha? According to this SEC form, daily deals site Groupon has raised another $16.2 million. There’s no word on whether this is an add-on to its recent $950 million round or just a small... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | PayPal On Cutting Off Courage To Resist: "This Has Nothing To Do With WikiLeaks" | photo © 2007 Anh Thai | more info (via: Wylio)
Last time we checked in with PayPal, it, along with MasterCard, Visa and others had blocked its services with regards to donations to WikiLeaks foundation.
Today it is being reported that PayPa... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Twitter Finds Itself Between A Facebook And A Google | photo © 2009 Steve Ryan | more info (via: Wylio) In a post deceptively titled “Twitter as a Tech Bubble Barometer” the WSJ drops a lot of of information about the micro-messaging service, namely that Twitter is talking to both Facebook and ... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Twitter Informs Users Of DOJ WikiLeaks Court Order, Didn't Have To | photo © 2008 walknboston | more info (via: Wylio)The US Department of Justice has served Twitter with a 2703(d) court order to reveal information about accounts related to people associated with WikiLeaks.
The order is a request for account... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Groupon's Valuation Could Be As High As $7.8 Billion [Update: We Have The Document And The Actual Valuation] | photo © 2009 Chelsea Oakes | more info (via: Wylio)
Note: A source is now telling us that Groupon’s actual valuation is $4.75 Billion on a $950 Million Raise.
According to a VC Experts report, Groupon gave the State of Delaware a heads up o... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | FCC Net Neutrality Vote Is Just The Beginning | photo © 2005 dougward | more info (via: Wylio)In a 3-2 vote split down party lines the FCC approved the first “enforceable” net neutrality regulations this morning. These rules face opposition from all sides, with some holding that FCC has ... |
| Dec 17, 2010 | Zappos Expands To A San Francisco Office, Is Hiring | photo © 2009 Alain Picard | more info (via: Wylio)Online shoes and accessories retailer Zappos announced an expansion and a move to San Francisco on its employee blog this morning, in a post called “Zappos IP, Inc. Is Looking For ‘A Few Goo... |
| Dec 15, 2010 | Twitter Now Worth $3.7 Billion, Nabs $200 Million And Two New Board Members | photo © 2010 Keith Ramsey | more info (via: Wylio) The smoke has cleared and the Twitter bidding wars have finally ended, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reports that microblogging service Twitter has added another $200 million to its coffers and... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | WikiLeaks’ One True Home Is Twitter, But For How Long? | photo © 2008 J Fowler | more info (via: Wylio)With Amazon, Paypal and EveryDNS.net dissolving their relationships to WikiLeaks, leaving it without a stable home and a way to make money, Twitter currently serves as the only solid ground the ... |
| Dec 3, 2010 | Did Groupon Just Spurn Google's $6 Billion In Favor Of An IPO? | photo © 2008 David Goehring | more info (via: Wylio)Chicago Breaking Business News is reporting that Groupon has walked away from $5-$6 billion offered by Google in widely covered deals talks. Citing two sources, the report says that the de... |
| Dec 1, 2010 | Google Changes Its Rank Algorithm In Response To DecorMyEyes Story | photo © 2007 Yahoo! Blog | more info (via: Wylio)Over Thanksgiving weekend a New York Times story, “A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web” clued a lot of people in to some of the drawbacks of Google PageRank. Negative attention online and compl... |
| Nov 28, 2010 | Facebook "Thinking" Of Offering Mass Contact Export Since 2004 | photo © 2010 Digitpedia Com | more info (via: Wylio)The flames of contact info-gate got stoked again this holiday weekend with the release of a particularly inflammatory Google Chrome Extension “Facebook Doesn’t Own My Friends.” The extensi... |
| Nov 23, 2010 | $1.3 Billion Oracle-SAP Verdict Is Biggest Ever For Software Piracy | photo © 2009 Andrew Magill | more info (via: Wylio)After an 11 day trial whose highlights included the hilarious “Where In The World Is HP CEO Leo Apotheker?” the Oracle vs. SAP intellectual property case has finally ended today in a whoppi... |
| Nov 23, 2010 | Patent Office Agrees To Facebook's "Face" Trademark | photo © 2009 Kyla Buckingham | more info (via: Wylio)Facebook is just a payment away from trademarking the word “Face.” As of today the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site a Notice of Allowance, which means ... |
| Nov 22, 2010 | Coupons.com Reaches $1 Billion In Coupons Printed, Growing At A Rate 5x That Of Newspapers | photo © 2010 sdc2027 | more info (via: Wylio)For the first time ever in a year, digital coupon platform Coupons.com has surpassed a billion dollars in printed coupon savings. A milestone for the company and the entire digital coupons indust... |
| Nov 13, 2010 | The Phone Call Is Dead | photo © 2008 mike | more info (via: Wylio) In the tech industry saying that something is dead actually means “It’s on the decline.” And yes, the phone call is on an inexorable decline.
My original title for this post was “The Phone Call Wil... |
| Nov 9, 2010 | Ask.com Gives Up On Search, Hangs Its Hopes On Q&A | photo © 2008 Desi | more info (via: Wylio) IAC’s Ask.com has laid off 130 of its search engineers in New Jersey and China and surrendered its search operations to its competitors in the notoriously tough search market. Remaining search staf... |
| Nov 9, 2010 | Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse? | photo © 2009 Colin | more info (via: Wylio)According to reports, Google is offering its employees a 10% pay increase for 2011 and $1000 holiday bonuses company wide. Digg layoff refugees are met with open arms by enthusiastic HR vultures. C... |
| Nov 8, 2010 | Firefox Extension BlackSheep Detects And Protects You From Firesheep | photo © 2005 Peter Shanks | more info(via: Wylio)Eric Butler’s Firefox browser extension Firesheep took the Internet cafe world by storm a couple weeks ago when we and others wrote about the controversial plugin that compromises your social... |
| Nov 5, 2010 | Find Photos For Your Blog In Three Easy Steps | photo © 2008 Gloson Teh | more info(via: Wylio) Let’s say you’re a cat blogger who has just come across some breaking cat news, and you’re racing against the clock to beat the other cat publications to it but need a photo. By the time you s... |