Intel is shuttering its Digital Home Group, which means that the next generation of Google TV and Boxee devices will be powered by ARM-based chip sets. The folks who have been working on Intel’s CE products are absorbed by the company’s tablet group, AnandTech reported Monday night. Intel has since confirmed the move. “This...
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The number of newspapers and other media entities that are erecting paywalls or launching subscription-based apps for the iPhone and iPad continues to grow, and even some smaller regional newspapers are throwing up walls to try to protect their print subscriptions. Other publishers, however, have found alternative methods of monetizing their content — such...
LinkedIn made its second small acquisition in as many weeks with the purchase of IndexTank, a San Francisco-based startup that makes a real-time, hosted search engine service. Financial terms of the deal have not been announced, but it looks like another small one. IndexTank has reportedly raised $1.6 million in seed funding to date,...
The effect Twitter and the social Web have begun to have on entertainment, journalism and other media-related industries is by now well known and much-discussed. Its impact on other areas of human culture and knowledge, however, is still emerging. For example, how does the microblogging service impact academics and scholarly communication? That’s exactly what...
Clicking the “Like” button is incredibly easy to do, and increasingly becoming the primary way people interact on Facebook. Users are engaging with Facebook pages 31% more over the last year. Of this boost in engagement, 84% turned out to be from the “Like” button, while 15% were from comments and only 1% were...
A few minutes ago TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington wrote a post discussing a question that VCs (particularly new VCs, I’d imagine), are frequently asked: how Venture Capitalists can differentiate themselves from the rest of the bunch. The post dives into the things that VCs can do to actually add value (beyond their checkbooks), and outlines...
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus just announced the newest game in its “Ville” franchise, Castleville. From what we’re hearing the game play is basically like Farmville, except building a medieval castle instead of a farm. It’s been in development for over a year, Pincus says. I’m sitting here at Zynga HQ writing this, so will...
It wasn’t long ago that we told you about Picuous, which is essentially an incredibly easy way to embed photos onto a website while still retaining copyright. Essentially Picuous fills the gap that YouTube and Scribd have managed to do for video and documents respectively, but it does so for photographs. While the service...