Monthly Archives: July 2010
Twitter Launches “Suggestions For You” Feature
Twitter has announced a new feature called “Suggestions For You.” This feature suggests people who you do not already follow and that you may find interesting. The suggestions are based on people that you already follow and who they follow. This feature is tucked in the “Find People” section.
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Zynga Hires Dave Wehner As CFO
Social gaming company Zynga has hired Dave Wehner as the company CFO. Zehner is a former managing director at Allen & Company. Mark Vranesh, the current CFO of Zynga is becoming the chief accountant. Quite possibly one of the reasons for the hire is that Zynga may be considering an IPO.
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Netflix Pays More In Movie Licensing Costs Than Bandwidth
A crucial part of Netflix’s growth is their Watch Instantly service. Netflix is spending a vast amount of money in their streaming video services. In a recent 10-K filing with the SEC, Netflix revealed that they spent $66 million in the second quarter to license streaming titles for their Watch Instantly service. The year before that, Netflix spent $9 million.
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Google Earth Adds A Weather Layer
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has released a new version of Google Earth that has a weather layer. This way you can track images of rain and snow in real-time. To see the weather layers, enable the clouds layer and zoom in to a specific location. Check out some of the screenshots below:
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IPs Linked To Major Corporations Downloaded Leaked Facebook Profile Pages Torrent
There is a 2.8GB torrent file floating around on several torrent websites that contains public profile information from Facebook. Ron Bowes of Skull Security created a Facebook crawler that pulled everything from Facebook’s open access directory.
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Categories Facebook, Ron Bowes, Skull Security
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Facebook: No IPO Until 2012
According to a source with BusinessWeek, Facebook is not planning to have an IPO until 2012. This gives CEO Mark Zuckerberg the flexibility to focus on gaining additional users and boost additional revenues. Previously investors were speculating that Facebook would have an IPO in 2011.
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Steve Ballmer Talking About The iPad [TRANSCRIPT]
Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune put together the transcript of Steve Ballmer’s full discussion about the iPad at the annual financial analysts meeting. The full webcast is available at the Microsoft Press website and below is the full transcript.
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Categories Apple Inc., Apple iPad, Microsoft Corporation, Sarah Friar, Steve Ballmer
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Microsoft Focusing On 8 Core Areas
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) discussed thei eight core business at the Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) in Redmond on July 29.
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YouTube Increases Video Limit To 15 Minutes
YouTube has increased the upload limit to 15 minutes from the previous 10 minute limit. YouTube encourages people to make a video of your “15 minutes of fame.” If you tag your video with “yt15minutes,” by Wednesday, August 4, YouTube may select it and feature it on the homepage.
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Facebook Launches A Q&A Service: Facebook Questions
Facebook has launched a new Questions service in beta. You can use this service to ask people on the social network anything. Sounds like Facebook wants to give Yahoo! Answers a run for it’s money.
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