Amit Chowdhry | October 29, 2010 | 1,282 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Eric Schmidt, Google, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to hire Steve Jobs before Google became a large company. During Bloomberg TV’s Game Changers documentary of Google, Larry and Sergey had interviewed 12-13 candidates. Other facts that are in the documentary include how Jeff Bezos invested $250,000 into Google’s angel round of funding. Page and Brin hired Eric Schmidt as CEO partially became he also attended a festival in the desert called Burning Man. [BusinessInsider]
Amit Chowdhry | October 29, 2010 | 1,279 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under T-Mobile

T-Mobile takes their flash mobs seriously. In 2009 they had a flash mob take over Liverpool Street Station and then they followed it up in Trafalgar Square. Now they have decided to do a flash mob at the Heathrow Airport in terminal 5. Check out the video below:

Amit Chowdhry | October 29, 2010 | 924 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under YouTube

In 2006, YouTube added a subscribe button for following certain channels. YouTube announced today that the subscribe button has been hit 1 billion times. MachinimaSports was the channel that hit one billion mark. There are 15 YouTube channels that have surpassed one million followers. The channels include fred, nigahiga, kassemg, shanedawsonTV, shanedawsonTV2, smosh, universalmusicgroup, machinima, sxephil, davedays, mysteryguitarman, kevjumba, realannoyingorange, raywilliamjohnson, failblog, and collegehumor. [YouTube Blog]
Amit Chowdhry | October 29, 2010 | 966 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Bob Muglia, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) held their Professional Developers Conference this week and Silverlight 5 was not talked about much. However Microsoft did discuss their commitment to HTML5 consistently.

Amit Chowdhry | October 29, 2010 | 844 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Fortune, Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon Communications Inc.

Fortune has confirmed that the Apple iPhone will be released in early 2011. Analysts are estimating that next year Verizon could even sell 8-9 million iPhones. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg believes that the network will be able to handle large amounts of data demands, especially considering how much the Motorola Droid data is consumed. The Verizon iPhone will be on the 3G CDMA network, which means that it won’t work much outside of the U.S. [Fortune]
Amit Chowdhry | October 29, 2010 | 1,022 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under AOL, Artie Minson, CB Richard Ellis

AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) announced this morning that they have entered an agreement to sell four office buildings. CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust took over AOL’s corporate par for $144.5 million cash. This means that AOL will have $750 million in cash as of October 29th.

Amit Chowdhry | October 29, 2010 | 1,121 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Anderson Cooper, Clint McCance, CNN, Facebook

Arkansas school board member Clint McCance has resigned after he ranted about homosexuals on Facebook. “I made some very ignorant comments and did not realize just how ignorant they were,” said McCance in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN. Below is the full comment he made:

Amit Chowdhry | October 29, 2010 | 878 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Facebook

Facebook has filed a patent for ad-targeting technology that is based on a user’s friends interests. This way Facebook can serve more relevant ads to users who have not filled up their profiles with enough information for ad targeting.
