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Dwolla Serves Up Instant Payment
The company Dwolla is best known for providing a payment network similar to credit cards and PayPal but without charging exorbitant fees for the exchange of money between customers. Today, the pioneering company is taking a bite out of the legacy architecture of money transfer they’ve been chafing against by releasing a service that provides ...
Free-to-Play MMO Publisher Nexon Nets $1.17 Billion From IPO
Today, the Korean free-to-play online gaming company Nexon has gone public in the Tokyo Stock Exchange and raised $1.17 billion from its IPO. According to GamesIndustry, this is the biggest IPO to hit the exchange this year, putting the market value of the MMO publisher between $7.69 billion and $8.97 billion. “We want to have ...
FBI Arrests GeneSimmons.com DDoS Attacker, Connected to Anonymous
The distributed denial of service attack is the favorite crushing blow of the Anonymous hactivist collective, but as it causes disruption and misery to Internet users in the fashion on malicious vandalism, it is considered a crime in most countries. FBI agents arrested a Connecticut man on Tuesday morning, charged with conducting the October 2010 ...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Beats $1 Billion Sales Milestone in 16 Days
The month of November has been punishing and glorious for the gaming industry this year, game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has climbed a milestone and cast down yet another gaming record: exceeding $1 billion dollars since it’s launch debut on November 8, 2011. That $1 billion mark ...
Dwolla Will Unveil Paradigm Shift in Business on December 15th
The now-famous, social media fueled finance network Dwolla is set to entirely change the way that they do business on Dec 15, 2011. This upcoming celebration and unveiling will be hosted in Des Moines, IA at a location named Vaudeville Mews. If you intend to join them, be sure to register your attendance so that ...
Carrier IQ-gate Redux: The Wolf in the Smartphone
Over the past few weeks, there’s been something of a brouhaha brewing over the discovery of a diagnostic app embedded in almost all modern smartphones used by carriers to determine what’s gone wrong with a phone. The app is called Carrier IQ and when it first came to light, its obfuscated nature and inability in ...
Symantec Confirms Adobe Reader Zero-day Exploits Used Against Defense Contractors
Yesterday, a zero-day exploit in the Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat software had been discovered and revealed to be extant in the wild. After being updated on this problem, Adobe released a public security advisory and announced that fixes were arriving soon. Meanwhile, defense contractors and companies have caught phishing attempts circulating using maliciously coded ...
Xbox LIVE Coming to an iPhone Near You, Microsoft Launches Official iOS App
Xbox LIVE continues to get more mobile as they move into the world of iOS devices with the unveiling of an app that will run on any device running iOS 4.3 or higher (including iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.) This launch, congruent to the newly released Microsoft Xbox LIVE experience update with their new dashboard, ...
Critical Adobe Reader Zero-day Vulnerability Seen in the Wild
Yesterday, researchers at the Lockheed Martin Computer Incident Response Team (CRT) and members of the Defense Security Information Exchange informed Adobe that their products were being exploited by hackers. The exploit affects all versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.x and higher, including Adobe Reader X and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1) for Windows, Macintosh, ...
Despite Setbacks Nexon Sets $1.2 billion IPO for Dec. 14
With the upcoming Zynga IPO—and the subsequent roller-coaster ride of scheduling, rescheduling, and then getting raked through the mud—the massively-multiplayer gaming front almost feels like it’s a little bleak but for the drama of late. So it’s with some new news that we look at Nexon, a free-to-play MMO game company with several titles under ...