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Super Rewards Launches In-Game Offers, Looks to Live-Games in the Future
Super Rewards is back at it, with a new in-game overlay. It brings new Offer options for developers to play around with, presenting more opportunities to catch gamers at various points throughout their game play. At these points, users have direct payment options to make purchases that directly improve their gaming experience, adding new items ...
The New Twitter Looks Great, But Won’t Kill Tweetdeck
Twitter fans can lay today’s speculation to rest; the new site has arrived. It looks a lot cleaner, much like Tweetdeck’s Twitter client, and finally makes it easier to navigate the main website. With a simplistic and stylized interface, you can finally extract the functions of Twitter, which are much more sensibly laid out. There’s ...
Chase Bank Site Down All Day, Disappointing 16.5 Million Customers
Update: The Chase bank website is back up and running, at least since I checked earlier this morning. As the Associated Press reports, however, the site is still having outage issues. I still have all my money. How about you? Anyone else feel the need to stuff some mattresses and keep that gold jewelry? Not ...
Juniper Networks and Altor Say Enterprise Needs Dual Security in Virtualization: Real-Time Survey at VMworld 2010
Juniper Networks and Altor teamed up at VMworld 2010 to conduct a real-time survey of customer and enterprise needs, looking at their own current offerings to determine the best course for their future pipeline. The two cloud companies, which have an established business partnership as well, found that over a third of the 200+ firms ...
Zillow Names Spencer Rascoff as New CEO: Another Hat to Wear.
Zillow’s brought in a new CEO, Sepncer Rascoff, to head up the real estate website. Rich Barton, Zillow co-founder, has been the company’s CEO since its launch in 2005, though he will remain actively involved as executive chairman of the board of directors. Lloyd Frink, the other half of Zillow’s founding members and President, will ...
Intel Tags $30M for US Startups, Including Joyent’s PaaS Cloud Offering
Intel is on a spending spree, dedicating $30 million to four U.S. investments. In an aim to “foster entrepreneurship,” Intel’s global investment organization has set its sights on the states. The four companies receiving funding include Adaptive Computing, Ciranova, Joyent and Nexant. Moab’s Adaptive Computing provides unified, automation intelligence technology, while Ciranova develops analog IC ...
Primal Pages Targets Publishers, Automates Community Engagement
Primal is expanding its automated search and content-building tools at DEMO Fall 2010, with an addition to Primal Pages. The new tool is for publishers, and offers a way for them to engage their audience without doing all the work around searching, aggregating, organizing and publishing content. Primal Pages for Publishers expounds on the Pages ...
Xeround Launches MySQL for the Cloud. It’s All About Scale.
Xeround has launched its private beta for MySQL for the Cloud, a service for managing your cloud ecosystem. Xeround provides a cloud environment that’s flexible and scalable, designed for running applications in SaaS, IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS. Geared towards service providers, ISVs and other cloud clients, the new Xeround aims to help them face the ...
Xerox-Incubated TrailMeme Launches, Reducing Real-Time Anxiety
Trailmeme is officially launching at DEMOfall 2010, which kicks off today. The Xerox-incubated network, which first emerged late last year, lets you create sharable paths of collected content. Incorporating the process behind your research can be just as important as the data itself, particularly when it comes to conveying and comprehending the intent of the ...
Select2gether Brings Live, Social Shopping to the Web
An e-commerce announcement from DEMO Fall 2010—Select2gether is launching live, interactive online shopping on its site. The fashion portal lets you share items and outfits you’re considering with friends and other users, gaining valuable feedback from its forums. Adding a real-time element, Select2gether hopes to take its shopping tool to the next level. The real-time ...