Zynga CEO Mark Pincus was a four-time entrepreneur with no experience in the game industry. Yet in five short years, he has created a game industry giant with dedicated users. Zynga has doubled its revenues this year. Today it holds the top five games on Facebook DAU: CityVille (10,110,000), CastleVille (8,100,000) and FarmVille (7,200,000),...
Iomega’s Mac Companion hard drive is a 2TB ($349, 3TB model is $449) desktop drive with a few features that make it interesting to the average Mac (or PC) owner. While it doesn’t have the bells, whistles, and network access of many NAS and home storage devices, it does look good next to your...
While we’ve known for quite some time that the Earth isn’t flat, it doesn’t make this display any less impressive. In 2009, Google debuted a technology called “Liquid Galaxy” that was able to display a Google Earth map on a whopping eight screens. At the time, that was insanely impressive. Three years later, that...
It seems that ATT and T-Mobile have some tricks up their sleeves, or at least they’d best hope that they do. The two companies have asked for a stay against the court proceedings until they can provide a status update on January 18th, according to Reuters. The news comes after the DoJ asked for...
Image: AP Netflix stock jumped 6% today to $75.37 amidst rumors that Verizon would make a buyout offer, reports Forbes. Reuters offered up an exclusive report last week indicating that Verizon was looking to branch into the streaming market, so buying Netflix would obviously make that happen much sooner than later. It feels fishy...
With holidays just around the corner, it’s time to finalize gifts before you lose your chance to relax before The New Year. Gift giving can be a nightmare, and the Christmas spirit of commercialism always rears its ugly head for all the sane people that postponed shopping until after Black Friday. But a new...
And the curve balls keep coming. On Friday the Department of Justice announced its intentions to postpone its antitrust suit with ATT and T-Mobile, as the deal they were investigating had been summarily yanked off of the table just a couple weeks earlier. Now ATT has responded, asking for its own winter recess to...
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At LeWeb we caught up with Evernote‘s CEO Phil Libin who talked to us about how Evernote’s evolution from an app to a platform is progressing, with its Trunk ’store’ acting as a catalyst for this. We also asked him about Evernote’s Premium offering and whether he’s happy with uptake from users. Libin says that...
We recently covered LocalUncle, a smart use of Foursquare’s API that allows people to ask questions about nearby places (“Has the restaurant run out of soup-of-the-day?”, “How long is the queue at the post office?”) and have them answered by people who are likely to know. Initially it was only available in the USA,...