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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Hewlett-Packard’s CEO was directly involved in the selection of five new company directors, which is a violation of the company’s own rules, a report from a shareholder advisory group says. It suggest shareholders vote against three sitting directors up for re-election. Read More »
After years of wishing venture capitalists would take an interest in what they did, the folks at Rovio managed to create a hit on their own with Angry Birds.
Suddenly all of Sand Hill Road was knocking at their door, but by then Rovio wasn’t so sure it needed their money. Mobilized has the inside scoop on how the Rovio investment came together. Read More »
Topsy Labs, the real-time search engine, has raised $15 million in Series C funding from BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund, Scott Banister and Western Technology Investments. This brings the company to about $30 million in total funding since it was founded in 2006. Read More »
As expected, one will be able to find the iPad 2 in AT&T stores starting on Friday.
AT&T will also start offering iPhone 4 customers a personal hotspot option for $20 extra per month, including 2 GB of additional data. Read More »
Angry Birds Now Rich Birds After $42 Million Funding Round
Rovio, the company behind the breakout iPhone game Angry Birds, has raised a $42 million funding round led by Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures, the fund led by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström. Aydin Senkut’s Felicis Ventures also invested.
Bluefly, a small, publicly held online clothing retailer, is experimenting with adding game mechanics to its site to reward shoppers who watch videos, create wishlists, write reviews or read blog posts. Read More »
As venture capitalists scramble to get a piece of Silicon Valley’s new Web boom, entrepreneurs like Aaron Levie are finding they have the upper hand. Mr. Levie, 26 years old, founded online storage provider Box.net in 2005. While his 140-person Palo Alto, Calif., company has money in the bank, Mr. Levie saw the Web investing environment heat up recently, driven by interest in fast-growing start-ups such as Facebook Inc. and Zynga Inc. Read More »
Apparently those nice big screens on iPads and other tablets make it a lot easier to view sensitive information. A new study by Harris Interactive (and paid for by Fuzebox) finds that Americans are more likely to have confidential business and personal information on their tablets than they are to have such data on a smartphone.
People are divided, however, on whether their data is quite secure or really rather insecure on such devices. Read More »
Sens. John McCain and John Kerry are circulating proposed legislation to create an “online privacy bill of rights,” according to people familiar with the situation, a sign of bipartisan support for efforts to curb the Internet-tracking industry. Read More »
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Apple is reportedly preparing to open a pop-up shop during SXSW at 6th and Congress in downtown Austin. Will we see you there? Read More »
Along with several hundred layoffs taking place in the U.S. tomorrow, which BoomTown reported earlier, AOL is drastically cutting staff at its Indian unit right now, sources said.
According to sources, AOL India will lay off 400 employees in Bangalore, as well as transition 300 more to contractors working for partners. That leaves only 200 staffers in the Asian country. Read More »
Square’s CEO Jack Dorsey has responded to claims by VeriFone that its mobile payment services are insecure, by saying that its competitor’s statements are not “fair or accurate.” Read More »
Rebtel said late on Wednesday that it has hit 10 million users for its voice-over-Internet calling service and has now connected more than 200 million calls. Rebtel, which offers free and discount calling on a number of mobile devices, also offered up some financial numbers, saying it is profitable and 2010 revenue was $40 million, up 120 percent from a year earlier. The company said it expects 2011 revenue to reach $75 million. Read More »
The AOL layoffs are finally here, and they are smaller than some had been expecting.
According to several people close to the situation, the New York-based Internet giant will lay off up to several hundred staffers starting tomorrow in very targeted areas of the company’s U.S. operations, in a move that its CEO Tim Armstrong signaled last week was coming. Read More »
Big Blue wows the analysts and many share-price upgrades follow, prompting investors to push the stock up by two percent. Read More »
An increasing number of companies are asking employees to bring their own smartphones to work, pulling back from the standard practice of procuring and assigning company-owned equipment. Read More »
NetApp Acquires Engenio Storage Business From LSI
NetApp, the storage networking equipment concern, said today it had reached a deal to purchase the Engenio storage business from chipmaker LSI for $480 million in cash. The move will bolster its place in the market for video and high-performance computing applications. LSI’s Engenio unit makes rack-mountable storage devices, and generated $750 million in sales in 2010. LSI said it would use the proceeds to fund a $750 million share buyback. LSI shares soared by nearly four percent in after-hours trading. NetApp shares finished the regular session down 11 cents, and appeared to be held for after-hours trading pending the end of a conference call discussing the deal.
Jason Kottke, the blogger and Web designer, today launched a site called Stellar to help people discover and keep track of favorite Web content, such as tweets, Flickr photos and YouTube videos. Read More »
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »
Big consumer-products companies are going back to school. Businesses including Sprint Nextel Corp., Levi Strauss & Co. and Mattel Inc. are sponsoring college classes and graduate-level research to get help with their online marketing from the young and hyperconnected. Read More »
Earlier Posts
- HP’s Move Could Give webOS Needed Scale, Help Its PCs Stand Out on Mobilized
- Microsoft Says 10 Million Kinect Sensors Sold for Xbox on eMoney
- With Opera’s Web Store Launch, GetJar Pulls Norwegian Browser From Store on Mobilized
- StumbleUpon’s Second Wind Continues as It Raises $17M on NetworkEffect
- NPR’s Vivian Schiller in Better (Digital) Days: The Full D8 Video on BoomTown
- Ahead of iPad 2 Launch, Apple Releases iOS 4.3 in All of Its Hotspot Glory on Mobilized
- Gmail Smart Labels Automatically Filter Less Important Email on NetworkEffect
- VeriFone Calls Out Potential Security Flaw in Square’s Mobile Phone Payment App on eMoney
- Microsoft Plans March 14 Launch for New Internet Explorer 9 Browser on Mobilized
- TV.com Head Anthony Soohoo Leaves CBS on MediaMemo
The Evolved iPad 2
The new IPad 2 is thinner, lighter, faster and more powerful than the original. It offers an excellent balance of size, functionality and price, and keeps Apple ahead in the tablet race, at least for now. Read More »
