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Hulu has Big Expectations: $240M for 2010
The television industry is undergoing tremendous change due to the influence of IT devices that are trying and most of the times succeeding to incorporate the features of TV sets also. The decreasing trend of television has also impacted the advertising industry, at the present TV and radio advertising is facing a serious downfall. People ...
Yahoo Seeking to Build Strong Frontline
Yahoo! Inc. announced a new executive today: Wayne Powers has been named as the company’s new Senior Vice President. With his experience gained in the position of President for Time Inc. Media group, Powers will be supervised from his New York based office by the prospective Executive Vice President of the Americas, Ross Levinsohn. The ...
Google in the Giving Spirit, Despite Ongoing Street View Probes
Google’s Street View data collection methodology is again in the hot seat, after it was suggested that the White House might have some close relations with the giant search engine. The National Legal and Policy Center disagrees with Federal Trade Commission’s decision of ending the scandal. The ties between Google and the Obama administration are ...
DailyCandy Digs Deals. Too Late to the Game, or Just on Time?
The media trend for “deals” is being embraced by DailyCandy – one of the major e-newsletter operators, which has been recently acquired by Comcast. To mark its 10th anniversary, DailyCandy launched their own “Deals channel”, which comes in addition to the sample sales offering – Swirl. Although DailyCandy has an impressive portfolio of more than ...
LimeWire: a Phoenix Ressurection for Filesharing Networks
Not much time has passed since the 26th October, when LimeWire was closed for violating the copyright infringement on a large scale. Now, it seems that it fetched up – acting for the common welfare of the users who are indulging themselves with pirated shared files. After TorrentFreak, LimeWire developers had to shut down the ...
AMD Battles Intel for Claim to Combo-Chip Fame
AMD announced during an investor conference, held today that the new company’s innovation, “Fusion APUs” will re-launch the market share that the organization lost during the previous years. The new processor is designed to combine the integrated graphics with CPU performances. Expected to be available to end-customers by the early 2011, the new APU is ...
Verizon’s $70 Unlimited Plan for Limited Market
In response to Sprint Nextel’s pricing strategy, Verizon Wireless announced through their spokeswoman that they will test a $70 bundle of unlimited calls. Verizon also made public the availability for sale of Droid Pro on their website at promotional prices for two-year contract – $179 – and $100 for mail-in. What is Verizon’s doing is ...
QLogic’s Performace Boost Comes on InfiniBand
New world records have been established for non-coalescent message rate performance, by 7300 Series QDR InfiniBand host channel adapters, while QLogic 7300 Series QDR host channel adapter, which runs on Intel’s Xeon 5600, reached a 23.7 million messages per second, a 7.8 time improvement in comparison with InfiniBand devices. Based on QLogic TrueScale’s design, the ...
GrubHub Now Serving Market Expansion with $11M in Funding
Now that GrubHub – the searching engine for delivering restaurant meals, has raised a $11 million venture capital, it is looking for expanding the availability of the services around the country. Benchmark Capital was the leading investor in this round (the third session for GrubHub in six years) and the financial support that they offer ...
Facebook Must Face PR Head Brandee Barker’s Departure
After four years of good and bad as the head of PR department of Facebook, Brandee Barker quits her position for starting communications consultancy. In an exclusive from AllThingsD, the Facebook’s veteran declared that before working for Facebook she didn’t realize the prospective development that social media will have in the later years “I had ...
