Zynga has shown a notable uptick in acquisitions in recent months, in what turned out to be part of the buildup to the company’s planned IPO. But although much has been made of the volume and frequency of Zynga’s MA activity, it turns out that the company did not amass the nearly $1 billion...
Google is Greek myth-level ambitious, trying to fight the war for web audience on all fronts. And just as it’s officially begun the battle in social, reports today hold that the search company is trying to court streaming video service Hulu away from Yahoo, presumably for the potential licensing and advertising deals from major...
Updated. Hulu’s Facebook Connect integration apparently isn’t going as planned. The ability to log in is offline as of this writing, with many people reporting issues with the sign-in option earlier today. According to some, those issues led some users to be signed in to other people’s Hulu accounts, exposing their user account data...
This has to be why Microsoft bought Skype. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/m2FsNE7xArw/
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They’re dropping like flies: the big Internet companies’ online energy tools. Last week, it was Google pulling the plug on PowerMeter , and this week, it’s RIP for Microsoft and its Hohm energy tool . So what happened with Hohm? Some of the reasons are the same ones that led to the demise of PowerMeter, but...
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Unlike some of the other companies that have filed for IPOs, Zynga appears to be a very big and healthy business. It generated $235 million in revenue for the March quarter, which is up 153% from the same period a year ago when it generated $101 million. The company’s net income is $11.8 million...
In case you hadn’t noticed, spam and phishing attacks through the social networks has been on the rise. Security company Symantec released a report yesterday detailing socially-engineered attacks to determine where they are coming from and what techniques malware criminals are using to lure victims into their traps. One of the most interesting trends...
The barrier to entry for a small business to come up with their own mobile app is getting lower every day, but it’s still not quite low enough. So if you can build a company that simply specializes in making mobile apps affordable, while making sure that they’re of great quality, you should be...