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SFGate Radio Debut Powered by Earbits, Takes New Approach to Music Marketing
So, what’s the best thing that could happen to an already great site? Add in some music and the result is just perfection. SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle online bit, has launched its SFGate Radio, a new, commercial-free online radio service that makes it easier and fun for listeners to quickly find live, Bay Area ...
Twitter’s $800M Funding Round Nearly Complete, Valuation Could Reach $8B
With everyone on Twitter nowadays, from laypersons to celebrities, to hackers and politicians, it’s not a surprise as to why more companies are investing in the microblogging site. In December 2010, Twitter received a $200 million funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Capital, Benchmark Capital and Union Square Ventures and with that their ...
Online, Mobile Payments Industry Incurs New Competitors
Whenever we need to buy something online, we have the option of using our credit card directly, or our PayPal account. No fuss. But when you’re a seller setting up shop online, it’s not that simple. PayPal requires you to have a merchant account, like Yahoo Stores, which will further require you to have your ...
Dell Doesn’t Want Brocade, Buys Force10 to Scale Out Switches Market
As 2011 proves to be the year of mergers and acquisitions in the networking space, Dell has set its eyes on Force10 Networks, an Ethernet networking supplier. At the moment, details of the acquisition remains undisclosed. Force10 Networks is a privately owned supplier with nearly $200m in annual revenues and operating on some 60 countries. ...
Tango Raised $42M, Expands to PCs
With Android and Apple’s continued feud, Tango, a mobile video calling app, has been uniting users over VoIP with mobile support. It only took $14 million of venture funding to acquire more than 17 million users, and has just raised $42 million through series B financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the same VC firm that first ...
Hacker Hunt Reels in 16 More Arrests
With yesterday’s nationwide ‘hacvtivist’-hunt, there’s already a total of 16 arrests that were made, 14 of which came from California. There’s also one from Newark, New Jersey and another from Tampa, Florida. The 14 hackers are suspected to be involved in the hacking of the servers of PayPal. “In retribution for PayPal’s termination of WikiLeaks’ ...
Apple Released Mac Mini and OSX Lion
After yesterday’s earnings call and a stellar third quarter resulting with an 82% increase in revenue, Apple released its Mac Mini and OSX Lion today, July 20. So what’s new with their products? Did it bring something innovative, or are these just some minor upgrades that people will rarely notice the difference from previous versions? ...
Google+ iPhone App Bugs Already Fixed, Tops App Store Charts
Yesterday, the unexpected happened. Google+ App became available for Apple users. After holding out on other Google app releases, Apple decided to give this one to Google. Maybe it’s due to the fact that Google+ is rapidly gaining users, including iPhone owners. As of yesterday, the new social network is said to have 18 million ...
Facebook Ads Ride their Own Wave, Increase Prices
Here’s the reality. You can’t browse Facebook without seeing an ad. Everywhere you go, all you see are ads plastered on the sides of the page, or even in News Feeds. Why? Because companies pay Mark Zuckerberg to advertise, so more ads equal more money. You might think that putting up ads in Facebook is ...
Reddit co-Founder Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft, Other Hacktivists Arrested
The co-founder of Reddit, Aaron Swartz, was charged with data-theft in Boston. He was accused of stealing over four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR. The case was filed by Carmen M. Ortiz, District Attorney of Massachusetts. Swartz could face up to 35 years in jail with a $1 million fine ...