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Groupon Seeking $3 Billion Valuation
In true journalistic fashion, several anonymous sources materialized to tell Bloomberg about Groupon’s private search for new funding—to the tune of a $3 billion valuation. Looking at how well saturated the web seems to be with the company’s advertisements (I happen to live in a city which they cover) it looks like they might actually ...
New Windows Phone 7 Models Appear In U.S. Stores, Now Also With Xbox LIVE
Microsoft has released a new operating system version for Windows Phone 7 and those phones are beginning to hit the shelves now. The new models appearing in U.S. stores debut at around $200 retail, but discounts may bring them down as low as $150 for subscribers willing to buy a new contract. According to Wired, ...
PiCloud Reaches $1.4m in First-Round Investment Funding
Python programming language library producer PiCloud would like to introduce coders to the joys of running in the cloud. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup just raised $1.4 million in their first round of investments and is still seeking more. Their system is a library, imported into Python code, that allows easy connectivity to the cloud, along ...
Kinect Camera Feeds Already Cracked, Hacker Not Interested in the Bounty
Like most hackers, Alex P knew a challenge when he saw one and couldn’t resist. He spent this last weekend playing around with Microsoft’s brand new Xbox Kinect camera and has successfully gotten it to work on a Windows 7 machine. This could be good news for MAKERs and DIYers everywhere—although it could raise Microsoft’s ...
Clearwire in the Midst of Layoffs Due to Financial Drain
Wireless Internet service provider Clearwire has gone into crisis mode recently with significant losses in revenue from a lack of financing and constantly extending costs. To stave off financial doom, the company is cutting its workforce by almost 630 people (15% of 4,200 employees). They’re hoping to stay afloat while they work out a better ...
Android’s Past the Terrible Twos, Still Suckling HTML 5 for Google Instant
The Google Android OS has turned 3 today. Happy birthday Google Android—we hope to see more of you as you grow into HTML5 along with the rest of the industry. Google hopes so too, as HTML 5 has become an important part of Google’s mobile search efforts. An update to Google Instant on Android, along ...
Facebook Obtains Patent on Ad Targeting Technology
Recently Facebook went down to the US Patent Office and got themselves a patent on a social marketing concept that allows advertisement delivery to guess at relevance by comparing social connections. Jackie Cohen over at All Facebook brings us up to speed on the patent by quoting Fenwick & West LLC, Facebook’s intellectual property attorneys ...
Storage Networking Predictions 2011: Ethernet vs Fibre Channel
The analysis is on, looking back at 2009 and 2010 for what protocols and physical layer networking may be trending into next year. The folks over at Wikibon have set their gears turning on where storage networking will go and came out with a few predictions for us to chew on. It looks like the ...
Rocket Ninja Plans 3D Gaming on Facebook
The social game developer, Rocket Ninja, has been working furiously on raking in the investments for their newest venture: bringing 3D games to the highly social market of Facebook. Already they have pulled in $3.5 million in their first round. The new engine, which is described as “streaming 3D” will use a lightweight Flash component ...
Google’s Laboratory Cooks Up Nitro for the Web, New Tools for Apache
Google has brought themselves to the forefront of web technology through sheer weight of contribution by being part of the search revolution, but also through their continual development for the open source community. This month they’re working not only on the browser market to get web pages to flow faster to viewers, but on the ...