On the back of yesterday’s discovery of more than 400,000 plaintext login credentials from Yahoo Voices, some 35,000 plaintext user details from Australian apparel maker Billabong’s website have reportedly surfaced online. An anonymous posting at CodePaste.net has claimed that up to 35,000 credentials from the cult surf and beach apparel maker’s website had been grabbed....
Daily Archives: July 12, 2012
The Secret Lives Of Teenagers Online: A Full Report From Business Insider
Tammy McGary It isn’t the twentieth century anymore. It turns out today’s teenagers hate talking on the phone. Only 4% of them consider talking on the phone their “favorite” way of talking to friends. They prefer commenting publicly on each other’s Facebook profiles, or even better: texting. Even email and instant messages are passé for this...
Global video service Viki enters China with partnership to power Renren’s global video site
Fresh from adding music content to its platform last month, global video site Viki is moving into China with a partnership that will see it power the global video site of 160-million user strong social network Renren, commonly known as ‘the Facebook of China’. The duo is teaming up to create ‘Vikizone’, a video content...
Viki Climbs The Great Firewall, Signs With ‘China’s Facebook’ Renren For Its First Video Distribution Deal In The Country
Online video site Viki has made a big business out of aggregating content from around the world, covering 150+ languages in all, and making it accessible to all by crowdsourcing translations from its community of users. Now that pool of viewers is set to get a little deeper with a new distribution deal with...
Digg Sold To LinkedIn AND The Washington Post And Betaworks
Sun Valley and self-driving cars aside, the story of the day today is that social news site Digg has sold its remaining assets for $500K to the NYC-based tech firm Betaworks. While that number is indeed in the ballpark, we’re hearing from multiple sources that the total price of the Digg acquisition was around...
Bond God Jeff Gundlach Bought Facebook Shares And Sold Them After 14 Minutes (FB)
Business Insider Jeff Gundlach, the CEO of the hugely successful DoubleLine Funds, just completed his latest national webcast. During the QA section, he talked about how he thought low-yielding Treasury securities were extremely unattractive. He argued that the 5-year Treasury security effectively offered “reward-free risk.” At one point, he said he thought that even...
Salesforce service Desk launches an iOS app to make customer support an untethered task
Desk.com (previously Assistly), the customer support service acquired by Salesforce last year, has dropped version one of its iOS app, which will allow its customers to interact with their community on the go. The team announced the app on its Twitter account, and it looks pretty full-featured for a mobile app. One of the...
Thanks to the iPhone, Fon finds its sweet spot in Japan
Fon may have launched in Madrid, but lately the company has taken on a very Japanese flavor. According to the company, which pioneered the concept of a global community Wi-Fi network, 1 million, or a full one-sixth, of its global access points now reside in Japan. It owes a big part of its success...
Yahoo’s newest road map could be drawn in disappearing ink
One of my best friends in high school, one of the smartest people I knew, was so careful driving that she would only leave one busy spot by making right turns until she ended up at a light for a safe left. It’s not a stretch to see why thinking about the new Yahoo...
Roku gets ready to launch in Germany, Spain
Told you so: We just got further confirmation that Roku is preparing to launch its media player devices in Germany and Spain in the form of the company’s most recent firmware update. Roku’s 4.8 firmware, which started rolling out Thursday, comes with an interesting new feature. From the announcement blog post: “Expanded language support,...