The rise of the Asia as a region for sustainable app distribution is clearly evident. According to the latest Distimo Report, the download volume in the Apple App Store for iPhone from Asian countries grew significantly in the past six months. In fact, the report suggests that China has recently became the second largest market...
The current level of IPO activity is too low to sustain the venture capital industry—say venture capitalists the world over. More than 80 percent of the 347 VC’s surveyed for the 2011 Global Venture Capital Survey said current IPO activity levels in their home countries aren’t sufficient to support the health of the market. In the United...
New York daily-deal aggregator Yipit raises $6 million Series B from Highland Capital, RRE, DFJ Gotham, and others. The company aggregates deals from 335 Groupon clones in 32 cities. In NYC alone, it tracks 161 live deals. Yipit’s email list has grown to 250,000 subscribers over the past year. It sends 20,000 people a...
Newspaper giant Gannett fires 700 employees as ad revenue continues to sag. In other Gannett news, CEO Craig Dubow was paid $9.4 million last year, including a $1.75 million cash bonus based partially on his success at cutting costs through layoffs. Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/XW4AKAKs8_E/newspaper-giant-gannett-fires-700-employees-as-ad-revenue-continues-to-sag-2011-6
A new study has found that people who eat after 8pm have higher BMIs (body mass indexes) than those who don’t. It might sound obvious that those who snack at night put on more weight because it indicates that they simply eat more, but the study says that people who eat the same number...
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Daily deals are growing like crazy, and it’s not just Groupon and LivingSocial. Daily deal aggregator Yipit just raised $6 million in a series B led by Highland Capital Partners. Existing investors RRE, DFJ Gotham and IA Ventures also participated. I caught up with co-founders Vin Vacanti and Jim Moran (pictured) today in New...
After noticing some suspicious commits to popular WordPress plugins today in the main WordPress.org repository, passwords are being reset for all users of WordPress.org, bbPress.org and BuddyPress.org, Matt Mullenweg said on the WordPress blog. The reset comes after suspicious commits to AddThis, wpTouch and W3 Total Cache that contained backdoors were spotted. The WordPress...
WordPress.org has just posted the following on its blog: “Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits were not from the authors, rolled them back, pushed updates to the plugins, and shut down access to the...
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