Monthly Archives: September 2010
Jimi Heselden Passes Away After Driving Segway Off A Cliff
Jimi Heselden was a businessman that served as the Chairman of Hesco Bastion and was an investor in Segway. It turns out that Segway Inc. was acquired by a UK-based firm that was backed by Heselden. Unfortunately Heselden drove off of a cliff while riding on a ruggedized version of a Segway. He was found early Sunday morning in the River Wharfe while touring his estate. Heselden was 62 years old and made a lot of his fortune by designing wire cage walls used by NATO, American, and British forces. [Engadget]
Categories Hesco Bastion, Jimi Heselden, Segway Inc.
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Promoted Tweets Being Sold For $100,000 Each
Twitter is selling promoted tweets for $100,000 each and higher. However marketing companies are pondering whether the investment has been worth it. Currently advertising on Twitter is considered as an “experiment.” Best Buy and Pepsi tested out the ads already, but have not bought ads again and about 80% of the companies that bought an ad have not bought any more.
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Categories Dick Costolo, Twitter
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E-Rewards Acquires Survey Widget Company Peanut Labs
E-Rewards has acquired the company Peanut Labs. Peanut Labs creates surveys that can be embedded into social networks. The financial details are unknown.
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Categories E-Rewards, Peanut Labs
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Verizon Mobile Recovery Helps You Find Your Missing Phone
Verizon Wireless has launched a new service called Verizon Mobile Recovery. Verizon Mobile Recovery is an extension of the Total Equipment Coverage program. The service works on BlackBerry, Android, and webOS-powered phones. The full list of phones are available [here]. The Mobile Recovery application is available for free for those who pay $10 per month for the Total Equipment Coverage program.
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Vivendi Sells 20% NBC Stake To GE For $2 Billion
French media company Vivendi has sold its stake in NBC to G.E. for $2 billion. Vivendi had owned 20% of the broadcasting company. After Comcast completes its acquisition of NBC, Vivendi will sell the remaining 12.34% it owns to G.E. for $3.8 billion. Vivendi CEO Jean-Bernard Levy said that the company can use the sale of NBC to buy 100% of telecommunications operator company SFR. Vivendi owns 56% of SFR. [NYT]
Categories Comcast, General Electric, General Electric Co, Jean-Bernard Lévy, NBC, SFR, Vivendi
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Xmarks Is Shutting Down
Bookmark syncing service XMarks is in the process of shutting down. XMarks is based in San Francisco, California and they shut down their website today. XMarks is a four year old company that was started by Mitch Kapor. Kapor put his own money into the company and then it received more funding from Redpoint Ventures. XMarks was even close to selling the company to Google, but the deal fell through. At one point XMarks had about 5 million active users. However Google and Firefox both built bookmark syncing into the browser so their business model was difficult to sustain. [Xmarks Blog]
Categories James Joaquin, Mitch Kapor, Redpoint Ventures, Xmarks
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Trololo Guy Is Back With Darth Vader Back-Up Dancer [VIDEO]
Trololo guy Edward Hill has decided to do a performance of the song that made him so popular on YouTube. This time he brought in some reinforcements in the form of back-up dancers… including Darth Vader. The original Trololo video has been seen millions of times. Check out the video below:
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Categories Edward Hill, Trololo
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Three Power Digg Users Working On Competitor Out Of Revolt
I have just been notified that 3 power Digg users are working on a Digg.com replacement. The line on the homepage of the holding page currently says “Digg is dead, we are going back to basics.” Currently there is a contact form and a place to input your e-mail for updates on DiigMe.com. As reported earlier, Digg’s traffic has dropped 26% after the new website design went live. The new design has been buggy and there is less of an emphasis on the “homepage” itself. More details to follow as we find out more. Check back on this post.
Categories Digg, DiigMe.com
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Now You Can Dress Up Like Antoine Dodson For Halloween
Just in case you want to dress up like the star of the Bed Intruder song, you can buy an Antoine Dodson costume. The costume includes a blank tank top, a wig that resembles Dodson’s hair, and a red bandana. The cost is $24.99 and it is almost sold out. If you don’t know who Antoine Dodson is, watch the video below that has over 26 million views on YouTube.
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RIM Launches A New Tablet Called The PlayBook
At the annual Research In Motion BlackBerry Developer Conference, CEO Mike Lazaridis announced a new tablet to rival the Apple iPad. The tablet is called the PlayBook. RIM developed the tablet’s operating system using QNX technology; RIM bought out QNX this past April. The operating system that will run the PlayBook is called the BlackBerry Tablet OS and it offers full OpenGL and POSIX support. The BlackBerry Tablet OS also supports the HTML5 web standard. These platforms are all tied to RIM’s new WebWorks SDK.
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Categories Mike Lazardis, Research In Motion, RIM, RIM PlayBook
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