Cory John reported for Bloomberg West last night, pointing out that Zynga doesn’t expect people to play its games as long as they used to. He also calls the company on unusual accounting practices, saying, “The revenue recognition of Zynga has made Zynga look like a very different company than it is.” Watch: Article...
Daily Archives: December 8, 2011
SecondMarket Founder Barry Silbert And Others Invest In SponsorHub’s $750,000 Round
Image: Thatsfit See Also: These Charts Tell The Real Story Of Android Vs. iPhone Mark Cuban: Wall Street Has Become A Platform For Hackers 23 Tech Superstars Poised To Own 2012 Three-month-old SponsorHub has raised $750,000 from a bunch of investors, including SecondMarket’s founder Barry Silbert. SponsorHub is an online marketplace for event sponsorships....
LexisNexis puts MarkLogic to work in big data makeover
LexisNexis pressed MarkLogic technology into service for its just-launched Lexis Advance legal data service. MarkLogic’s document storage, search and analytics technology replaces legacy home-built code, said Jerry Barton, VP of global product Development at LexisNexis. This company, like many others in this era of big data, is updating its infrastructure to better handle a wealth...
Where Are They Now? RWW’s Most Promising Companies Since 2004
Most Promising of 2004: Feedburner At the end of 2004, the first year that ReadWriteWeb chose a Most Promising Company, we selected RSS management startup Feedburner. Remember this was before the second wave of the Web kicked in, commonly called Web 2.0. At that time there was a lot of experimentation happening around RSS...
Eric Schmidt Thinks Most TVs Will Have Google TV In Six Months. Is He Nuts? (GOOG)
Image: AP A cupful of crazy? See Also: These Charts Tell The Real Story Of Android Vs. iPhone You Know You’re Doing Something Right When Apple SVP Phil Schiller Randomly Compliments You On Twitter Ice Cream Sandwich Review: Sorry Google, I’m Not Ready To Ditch iOS Yet Google chairman Eric Schmidt spoke at Le...
Eric Schmidt’s Le Web Keynote Video: “Android is Ahead Of The iPhone”
Google chairman Eric Schmidt spoke yesterday at Le Web in Paris, and now the entire interview is on YouTube (thank you, Loic!). Schmidt talks about politics, and Google’s rapid acquisition pace (one a week). The hour-long interview is punctuated with bon mots like: “It is much easier to start a revolution, but it is...
Unstuck Helps Turn Your iPad Into An On-The-Go Life Coach
Innovation and management consultancy SYPartners is debuting its virtual on-th-go life coach, Unstuck this evening. Unstuck, which is an iPad app, allows you to get on-demand coaching whenever you need it. First, the app helps you diagnose what’s really going on in your stuck moment. Using a game-like interface, Unstuck tried to tease out what...