Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston. See Also: Former OpenTable CEO Explains Why He Jumped To The VC World Car Service Startup Uber Scoops Up The Glee Cast “Our Top NYC Customer Spends $6,000 Per Month” Says Uber Online storage service Dropbox is looking to raise between $200 million and $300 million at a $5 to...
If you’re curious about all things Google+, you’re in luck. The project’s technical lead, Google engineer Joseph Smarr, is currently hosting an online question and answer session about the service — and he has already shared a number of details about Google+’s development, technology, and plans for the future. On Monday, Smarr opened himself...
Today, Electronic Arts said it would buy PopCap, the maker of popular games like Bejeweled and Plants and Zombies, for a combination of cash and stock that could amount to $1.3 billion. John Cook at Geekwire uncovered this note from PopCap to its new overlords: Image: John Cook, Geekwire Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/5rz4nxzJjLo/check-out-the-hilarious-note-popcap-sent-to-its-new-owners-ea-2011-7
Netflix announced this morning that it is changing its pricing structure for DVD and streaming videos. Starting September 21 unlimited movie streaming and DVD-by-mail will be separate options costing $7.99 a month with the option of combining the two for $15.98 a month, or double what a standard Netflix subscription now costs. The announcement...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. With Citrix escalating its fight against VMware, and VMware expanding its arsenal, it’s...
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Nintendo is working hard at making its 3DS less of a “put in a cartridge, play a game” console, and more of an all-purpose gaming/media/social gadget. They’re awful slow at it, though, since their entire system from the eighties on has been the cartridge thing, more or less. Perhaps they looked at Apple and...
Electronic Arts announced it is buying casual and mobile game developer PopCap Games for $750 million as it looks to speed up its evolution toward being a digital purveyor of games. The mega deal, which could be worth up to $1.3 billion with earn outs, exceeds previous acquisitions and shows that EA’s is willing...
Digg has raised a new round of financing, we’ve confirmed. It’s an inside round, meaning one or more existing investors put in the money. We’ve heard the amount raised was single digit millions, probably around $5 million. CEO Matt Williams has confirmed the financing to us, but won’t give an exact number on the...