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F1 Racing Driver Barrichello Wins $500,000 Libel Suit Against Google
Google has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay Formula One racing driver Rubens Barrichello $500,000 in damages for the presence of fake online profiles of the driver on its social network Orkut, which is hugely popular…
November 11 2009, 9:38pm | Comments
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PHP Founder Rasmus Lerdorf Leaves Yahoo
PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf has left his long-held position at Yahoo, according to his Twitter account. Lerdorf joined Yahoo in 2002 and has worked for the company as an engineer since. Lerdorf is most notable for creating the…
November 11 2009, 1:50pm | Comments
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Sometimes Twitter Accounts About Sh*t Your Dad Says Get You TV Deals
Back in August, we wrote about Shit My Dad Says, the Twitter account of a 28-year-old guy named Justin who literally just tweeted out things his dad said. At the time, he already had over 100,000 followers on…
November 10 2009, 1:08pm | Comments
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Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million
Google has just announced that it has acquired AdMob, the mobile ad platform that has been especially popular on the iPhone, for $750 million. This is a big win for the company’s early investors, which include Sequoia Capital…
November 10 2009, 4:37am | Comments
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Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5
Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn’t work out. – Gizmo5’s SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype’s proprietary P2P back end.…
November 10 2009, 4:30am | Comments
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Zynga To Remove All In Game Offers
Last week Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said that they would take steps to remove scammy advertising offers from their social games. There have been a couple of missteps since then, and Facebook responded by taking Zynga’s newest game,…
November 9 2009, 7:19am | Comments
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Think The Droid Launch Was A Let Down? Not So Fast.
Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports…
November 8 2009, 11:13am | Comments
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SnapNames: Apologies Shouldn’t Be Conditional, Especially When You Steal From Customers
Earlier this week the domain name industry was rocked by a shill bidding scandal at SnapNames. The company made the right early moves by admitting the problem and promising refunds, plus interest, to customers. Now, though, they are…
November 8 2009, 8:01am | Comments
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Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues”
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company’s games don’t include scammy offers in the future. Our full background on this story is here. But what he didn’t say in…
November 6 2009, 7:02pm | Comments
