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Google invests $100 Million in Zynga, Zynga will anchor Google Games launch
Zynga has received a secret investment from Google, worth between $100 and $200 million dollars, reported by both Venture Beat and TechCrunch. What makes this investment especially noteworthy? Zynga has received almost $500 million in capital this past year, but this Google investment represents a broad expansion of Zynga’s social network gaming. Google hopes to ...
FCC Details Broadband Plan: It’s Slightly Better than the Pony Express
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski recently answered written questions about the new National Broadband Plan that would take until 2020 to roll out. Octogenarian Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) open fired in a recent set of written questions (PDF) to Genachowski from the Senate Commerce Committee. “The National Broadband Plan (NBP) proposes a goal of having 100 ...
Foursquare Partners with Huffington Post and Independent Film Channel to Give You Layered Geo-Location
In a very exciting development, Foursquare is partnering with Huffington Post and the Independent Film Channel to offer their users the benefit of the growing 4-D mapping of the world, with more in-depth information about places to which users check in. Its terrible to land in San Francisco and head to the waterfront, for example, ...
Zuckerberg’s Immaturity and Inexperience Hurt Facebook on Privacy Issues
When it comes to privacy, there are a great number of varying opinions. Some people are strident and think of it as a “right”, and some think pricay is dead in the Internet age. It is a debate that will rage on for some time to come. In terms of the current Facebook privacy uproar, ...
One Open Source Database of Geo-Located Places: Will Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook share info?
Foursquare just had its 40 millionth ‘sign in’. Many of your phone apps now ask you if you’d like to geo-locate. Facebook is coming out with a location based update capability. What’s happening to all this information? First off, Foursquare is not a game. I’ve been signing in since its inception and I’ve added lots ...
Betty White’s snappy SNL monologue: Thanks Facebook
In a very witty monologue, Betty White thanked her fans who created a Facebook Fan Page to get her on Saturday Night Live. Betty opened her monolgue with: “I really have to thank Facebook… I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds ...
Army Spy Plane may have picked up NYC Bomber’s phone call to airline
When someone tells you Big Brother might be listening to you over your Bluetooth or your gaming console, it just might be true… Times Square attempted bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was picked up at JFK International Airport very soon after his SUV filled explosives was found. How did authorities scramble so quickly to find him? ...
Hedge Funds Monitoring Bloggers for Trading Help
Hedge funds are going outside traditional media sources, monitoring influential financial commentators, including bloggers who have a strong social media presence. Alacra, a data aggregator , monitors the opinions of 25,000 analysts by combing the web for their comments. Alacra’s sources include such prominent bloggers as: Barry Ritholtz – Ritholtz.com Henry Blodget – Business Insider ...
How To: Make Money on YouTube [Charge ‘em!]
YouTube isn’t just for home videos anymore. Filmmakers can soon upload their movie to YouTube and rent out views of their content. In the past, film distribution was limited to the studio system with theater viewing, then pay-per-view, then DVD sales. More recently, a small film or documentary could be uploaded directly to the web ...
Zynga worth $4 Billion? Valuation might drop with Facebook Credits
Zynga filed papers to issue an additional 1.9 million shares of Series B-2 Preferred Stock, at an issue price of $12.87 per share. The company has an estimated 320 million shares outstanding. Zynga has had a lockhold on Facebook gaming, paying $5 to $8 million per month for banner ads within Facebook. (CEO Mark Pincus ...