PopCap Games has a hit streak even Pixar might envy. But can the company keep up and get social in Facebook era? We find out in this video interview with Co-Founder John Vechey and CEO David Roberts. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
Pirate Bay Says Acquisition Claims Are a ‘Fraud’; operators of The Pirate Bay have denied claims that the BitTorrent search engine has been sold to Swedish businessman Hans Pandeya for $10 million. (CNET) ImageSpan Hires New CEO, Raises New Round; Kurt Garbe, former CEO of Solution… Read More »
Microsoft wants to make it clear it is serious about protecting its intellectual property, and is duly concerned about infringements of it inherent in the Android platform. We received a statement from Horacio Guiterrez, the primary executive in charge of Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft. Read More »
It appears — originally based off a tweet from Robert Scoble, and then confirmed by Business Insider — that Apple has made yet another acquisition: the company who makes the Siri application for iPhone Read More »
What do you do when you have $40 billion in cash on hand? If you’re Apple, you go on a shopping spree. The latest acquisition in a string of corporate purchases is Intrinsity, another chip making company (Apple previously acquired PA Semi in 2008). Read More »
As a big fan of car sharing networks — I ditched my car last year and am a CityCarShare customer — I absolutely heart this idea: Spride Share, a car-sharing network where regular car owners can rent out their vehicles, is coming out of stealth… Read More »
Hot on the heels of the release of Opera 10.52 for Mac, I thought I’d chat to Bruce Lawson, a web evangelist at Opera, about the Open vs. Closed debate, and discover why open standards matter for web workers — and the web as a whole. Read More »
Ooyala has rolled out the first known test of its micropayment capabilities, with a system that allows media companies to charge viewers who wish to pay for the latest episodes of certain shows. As pointed out on TechCrunch yesterday, ABC Family… Read More »
As netbook sales slow, Intel reportedly plans to pack more power into its next-generation Atom, which currently powers netbooks. And now notebooks are entering price levels where once only the lowly netbook dared to tread. Is the end of the netbook market near? Read More »
After nine years in the federal review process, a controversial wind farm envisioned for Nantucket Sound has won approval from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. If the project goes through as planned, it will be the first offshore wind farm in the country. Read More »
Apple has apparently bought Siri, as documented in a FTC file flagged by Robert Scoble. Siri makes a really cool, almost magical tool that could easily be core to the iPhone experience. Read More »
The “center of the app universe” will be at Moscone West in San Francisco this year, as WWDC10 kicks off on June 7 and runs through the 11th. Read More »
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