Is LivingSocial about to follow Groupon’s lead, and go public? CNBC certainly thinks so, reporting that the site has met with bankers to discuss the possibility, and suggesting a surprisingly high valuation that may have come from said meetings.
CNBC cites an anonymous source “familiar with the matter” as claiming that the daily deals …
Clearly, Blizzard has been taking marketing lessons from bad drug dealer cliches from the 1980s. The company behind World of Warcraft has changed the structure of its free trial offer to ensure that becoming addicted to the online role-playing game becomes so much easier.
Blizzard explained the changes in an official statement like …
From book clubs to cat lovers to germaphobes, you’ve got online communities for just about everything. And, occasionally, they’ll do meet-ups, so that everyone can put faces and real names to the people who share their passions. Someone will say, "Hey, I like sticking tweezers into surge protectors, too!" And someone else will ask,
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Myspace has been purchased by an advertising outfit called Specific Media to the tune of $35 million, reports All Things D.
The once-ubiquitous social networking site was acquired by News Corp. back in 2005 for $580 million, with All Things D adding that the $35 million sale price “is well below the $100 million that News Corp. had …
The British Government doesn’t like people being able to find certain things on the internet. What other conclusion could anyone come to after seeing Google’s transparency report of requests from government agencies to remove content and/or hand over user data for the last half of 2010, when the U.K.’s items requested for removal is …
If you were constantly being sued by a pair of 6’5″ twin bros with chiseled cheekbones and really, really heavy pockets, you’d probably think, “This is FOR SURE the weirdest court case I’ll ever have to go through. In LIFE.” And you know what? You’d probably be right.
Unless, of course, you were a certain Facebook founder named Mark …
Two of Twitter’s co-founders have announced plans to restart the creative ideas company that incubated Twitter in the first place: “Obvious.”
Their stated aim: “To geek around and invent stuff and be like techno superheroes.”
Oh no, my mistake. Their actual stated aim: “We make systems that help people work together to improve the …
Now I finally understand why Mark Zuckerberg bought a $7 million home – because he’s richer than God, that’s why. Well, actually, he’s just richer than those Google dudes and, um, me.
Turns out, thanks to some investors, Facebook’s valuation is up to $70 billion, making Zuckerberg approximately worth $18 billion. Which means …
Today Microsoft announced its foray into the cloud with Office 365, a line of collaborative Microsoft Office-like tools that users can access on the web.
The service aims to minimize the number of users jumping ship over to Google’s free cloud services (i.e. Google Docs) while enticing business owners with the ability to streamline …
During a recent shareholder meeting, Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer made it very clear that he believes the world is at the cusp of a new age of cyber terrorism. Yet despite calls for him to step down from his post, during which Sony’s losses may have totaled over $24 billion from cyber attacks, he skirted around the issue, saying that …
“Phishing”—or the act of following jam-band Phish across the country tricking people into handing over private data via e-mail—is a serious offense. So serious, in fact, that a 27-year-old Los Angeles man who was found guilty of running a major phishing operation just got sentenced to 13 years in prison.
To be fair, he got 11 …
Google wants to know what you love.
That’s according to a new site it launched earlier this morning. Sneaking one past us, What do you love? (http://www.wdyl.com) seems to be an amalgamation of search results throughout Google’s products and services all rolled into one.
