Oh dear, I wonder how many twelve-year-old kids just lost their collective cool. Microsoft, in a very terse statement, made it known today that it had banned a number of Xbox LIVE users who had ripped off content from the console’s Marketplace. Users who suffered the ban have reported that they are suspended until,...
Daily Archives: September 7, 2011
Foursquare opens up to 1.5bn more people by adding 5 new languages
Over 1.5bn more people now have access to foursquare thanks to the recent language expansion. Now available in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Thai, foursquare hopes to meet the global demands of its international members with native-language access. Why these languages specifically? According to the official foursquare blog, these are the areas that represent...
At least one analyst believes AT&T-Mo deal isn’t dead
Just because the Department of Justice and Sprint are suing to stop ATT from buying T-Mobile, doesn’t mean that ATT is giving up, nor does it mean the deal is dead. Analyst firm Strategy Analytics today said it thinks the deal could still happen if ATT sells off some of its spectrum and, “persuades...
Ancient Chinese Secret: How To Value Yahoo’s China Holdings
Now that Yahoo has fired its CEO, everyone is once again talking about the company being broken up, with the Asian assets sold off. Part of the problem is that no one knows for sure what those assets are worth. A report last month by Thornburg Investment Management pegged the worth of Yahoo’s stake...
Business Insider’s Social Media Analytics Conference Is Coming — Tickets Available Now!
Register today! The first 15 people to sign up will save $200. Image: Buddy Media Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow is among the industry leaders to speak at Social Media Analytics. Other speakers include: Find out how to measure the ROI of your social media efforts at Business Insider’s first-ever Social Media Analytics conference on Tuesday,...
So Microsoft Is Cutting Its Bloated Middle Management? Great! (MSFT)
See Also: Google Gave Microsoft A ‘Gift’ By Buying Motorola Microsoft Finally Admits Windows Media Center Is A Dud Windows Phone Apps Will Run On Windows 8, Says NVIDIA Microsoft bought natural language search company Powerset three years ago to improve Bing, and now its former CEO Barney Pell has left the company. Over...
How to rent out your home, car, toilet and more on the Internet
The Internet has made it easier than ever for people to connect. Social networks, email and video conferences are just a few of the ways in which the world has become nothing more than a global village thanks to the World Wide Web. Another way in which the Internet is connecting people is through...
Paul Krugman Explains Why Bitcoin Is A Stupid Currency
Paul Krugman is in the mood to talk about alternative currencies. Last night he posted a piece on gold, offering (from his Keynesian mind) a rational explanation of why the surge in gold is perfectly consistent with the deflationary environment. He then followed that up with a piece on the only currency more controversial...
Meet Capital Factory’s 5 graduating startups
Marshall Stokes, CTO at StoryMixMedia Austin, Texas’ answer to TechStars or YCombinator shows off its graduating class of startups today (plus 15 other companies) as the third year of the Capital Factory accelerator program comes to a close. While you can view the live stream starting at 7 AM PT, I went out last week...
BBC remains the most popular news site in the UK, study shows.
This may not surprise a lot of people, but it seems the BBC News website is still the umber one news site in the UK, and remains ahead of the Mail Online. The data was compiled for the Press Gazette by UKOM/Nielsen, and is based on a survey of 50,000 people accessing news websites...