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EA Loses Investor Faith with PopCap Games Deal
Game maker Electronic Arts is expanding its business into new platforms via its latest acquisition, PopCap Games. The latter is responsible for hits including Plants Vs. Zombies, and had a price tag to match. EA will pay $650 million in cash, $100 million worth of its shares and a maximum of another $550 million if ...
Patent Trolling in Silicon Valley: 12 Companies Sued by IV
Intellectual Ventures, a $5 billion patent investment firm lead by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, is looking at some of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley in a effort to further monetize its portfolio of over 35,000 patents. Following a lawsuit spree dating back to last December, the firm has started a second wave ...
CloudFlare Raises $20M for Cloud Acceleration, Security Offerings
CloudFlare, a security startup that has its roots in open source spam protection network Project Honey Pot, just raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, led by New Enterprise Associates. Existing investors Pelion Venture Partners and Venrock Associates also participated in the round. CloudFlare will be using the capital to increase its staff ...
Google+ Answers All Your Questions
Google’s latest effort at a social network since the failure of Google Buzz is really picking up, thanks to the attention it’s getting in its first few weeks of existence. Analyst Paul Allen used census data about surnames to put together an estimate of about 4.5 million users, which means Google+ is growing rapidly; too ...
Apple Addresses Privacy with iOS 5 Beta 3
Apple promises to launch iOS 5 to its users by this fall, and it’s making sure developers are ready. After all, one of the biggest issues with rival Android’s Honeycomb OS was that there were very little apps supporting the platform at launch, something Apple wants to avoid. Beta 2 introduced a WiFi sync feature, ...
Hulu’s Up for Grabs, but Netflix Ain’t Buying
The sale of Hulu, the popular video streaming service currently being auctioned off by owners News Corp, Walt Disney, and Comcast’s NBCUniversal, is entering the next stage, but trouble is in the air. The news that Hulu is up for grabs was confirmed last week by Disney CEO Robert Iger at the Allen & Co. media ...
Microsoft and Nokia Strengthen Ties, but is it Good for Business?
Microsoft and Nokia have struck a multi-billion dollar partnership to develop a line-up of Nokia-built devices powered by Windows Phone 7. Both of the companies have been struggling to keep up with the competition with their own individual offerings, though this is especially true for Nokia. As a part of the deal the two companies’ ...
CMS Market Hits New Milestones with WordPress and Others
Popular blogging platform WordPress had a couple of big announcements these past few weeks. A counter on WordPress.com, which tallies the number of WordPress installations on their own servers as well as self-hosted blogs, just hit the 50 million mark, an update confirmed by WordPress’ Andrew Nacin, in a tweet. However, this is not the ...
Millennial Media May Be a Good Buy for Apple
Apple’s iAd mobile marketing platform is certainly not the company’s biggest money maker, but the consumer electronics giant is still trying to expand its foothold in a market, which is expected to be worth $2.5 billion by 2010, according to eMarketer. Sources say that Apple, which reportedly used to charge high profile customers some $1 ...
IPv6 Gets Complicated as Two Internets Emerge
World IPv6 Day, a test spanning 24 hours through which over 400 major web companies severed content via IPv6, was held exactly one month ago. It was lead by Yahoo, Google, VMware and other major players to encourage smaller service providers to switch to IPv6, and it seems that this effort proved itself to be ...