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Viacom Storms High-Profile Appellate Lawyer on Google
There’s nothing like Court TV, but when it comes to the real deal, Viacom and particularly YouTube star at the top of the list. In its efforts to overturn an NY judge’s ruling of YouTube’s status as a sort of safe haven from direct and contributory copyright infringement lawsuits, Viacom has hired leading appellate lawyer ...
More Facebook Privacy Issues That Won’t Make Users Happy at All
Privacy, privacy, privacy – Facebook has seen all too many complaints, lawsuits and privacy concerns lately, but according to this, it’s only getting worst. As a poll by Microsoft’s Saikat Guha and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems’ Bin Cheng and Paul Francis reveals, Facebook advertisers can and already have detected gay users and angled ...
L.A. Startup Unsubscribe Raises $2.1M to Rescue You from Email Marketing
Unsubscribe, founded by the James Siminoff behind PhoneTag/Simulscribe has just raised an impressive $2.1 million in Series A financing – the round was led by Charles River Ventures. The start-up, which offers a quick and easy unsubscribe button next to e-mails in Outlook and G-mail had undoubtedly gained a hefty amount of momentum ever since ...
Zynga Chart Reveals what Farmville Players Knew a Long Time Ago
Earning more than one million dollars a day, the social gaming developer Zynga, named after a late dog, is on a 3-year roll, and takes the throne in more than sector. As it seems, spending $90 million a year on Facebook ads does have its benefits. As quite accurately described in this infographic, Zynga is ...
Corporate Blogging Begins to Match That Official FB Account
A recent eMarketer report reveals that corporate blogging has begun to spread its wings in the corporate ring. What was once considered to be a fading cyber branch of journalism and respectful coverage now spreads in the corporate sector like wild fire. Thanks to its indisputable status within (or beside) mainstream media, no company and ...
Visa and Kiva Partner Up and Expand Virtual Microloans to the Gulf Cost
Today credit card giant Visa and microloaning website Kiva announced a partnership in its expansion further inland towards U.S small businesses. After aiding hundreds of thousands of people throughout 54 nations, Kiva (and a $1 million disbursement by Visa) begins to significantly accelerate its sponsoring and energizing efforts into the U.S economy and small business ...
New Loopt Update Brings Significant Facebook Places Integration
Loopt’s latest version that has been released today for the iPhone introduces users the freshly integrated and growingly popular Facebook Places tool. Soon to arrive to Android as well, this update marks more than another handy addition for users. This is a major step for Facebook’s social networking too, and a very good indicator of ...
Baidu and Rakuten: Search Engine Plus Internet Company Equals e-Commerce Pushover
Chinese search engine leader Baidu had teamed up with successful Japanese internet company Rakuten to launch a new and promising online mall for the country, as reported here. The venture was officially announced by the two in January. The mall is yet another step towards the sizable shrinkage of the global e-Commerce market, which is ...
Netflix Optimistic for 3rd Quarter, Discless on Wii & PS3
Netflix is doing fairly well. Its inventors have seen a somewhat record-breaking gain of no less than 572% as of October 15, but it did have a weak last quarter, as the $8.03 billion dollars and 18 million customers worth video giant slipped 11.9 % last July. Nonetheless, despite some very pessimistic predictions by Janney ...
RIM Expands OS6 with BB Style, Hopes for UAE
RIM has been working on significantly expanding its reachable market and customer-base for quite some time now, and after putting a whole lot of cards on the table, the company is now beginning to push forward on all fronts. The first star of this campaign is none other than the newly launched BB Style for ...