Facebook: IPO, Soaring Ad Revenue And Timeline Movie Maker
Facebook is expected to file for their initial public offering any day now, and it has created so much hype over the social networking giant. It’s such a big deal that Nasdaq and the…
Worldwide Mobile Payments for Live Gamer
Live Gamers announced this morning that they have integrated PaymentOne into their platform for international mobile payments. Through PaymentOne’s AnyPhone, users will be able to have access to the simplest means of making in-game…
Samsung Tablet Banned Amidst EU Probe, Oracle-HP Lawsuit Setback
The European Union is pushing for an anti-trust probe against Samsung Electronics Co. for allegedly abusing licensing of patents to other mobile-phone manufacturers. “This is linked to injunctions which have been filed by Samsung…
After Losing 100k Paying Users, Sky Splits Pay TV from Satellite
It’s the age of over-the-top connected TV services and they’re giving off a perilous aura strong enough for long-standing TV content companies such as BSkyB to engage in a major shift. BSkyB announced that…
Facebook IPO – A Sign of Yahoo’s Decline
Remember when all a technology company needed was a funny name, a quirky Super Bowl Ad, and suddenly BOOM! and IPO that was worth $$?? As it turned out, these things were not…
Apple Appoints New Senior VP of Retail, AT&T Slows Heavy Data Users
As Apple goes all out for world domination, the company has named Dixons Retail CEO John Browett as the senior vice president of retail. Browett will be in charge of sales strategy for iPhones…
Sumo Logic Emerges From Stealth To Take On Splunk, Log Data Analytics
Splunk has yet more competition. A company called Sumo Logic emerged from stealth mode today and unveiled its cloud-based service for managing and analyzing large volumes of machine-generated log data. The Mountain View, Calif.-based…
How Analytics is Done in the Cloud Industry: Totango, Zendesk Case Study
Today a startup called Totango launched its analytics service into general availability. The offering, which starts at $600/month, was developed to cater to SaaS companies that want to drive user-engagement, and consequently sales, up…
Two More Weeks Before Megaupload User Files are Deleted
Megaupload’s life has been extended, at least for two more weeks. It was reported yesterday that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia filed a letter under the case stating that…
The Internet and Video Gamers Could Unlock the Next Breakthrough in Science
By Kyt Dotson
They could, we just need to figure out how. I recently watched an amazing TEDx talk by Luis von Ahn about massive-scale online collaboration through systems such as how reCAPTCHA uses a common Internet…