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Warning: if you are a parent, you are about to be shown up. Further warning: if you are a squeamish, overprotective parent, this video is going to make you queasy. Every kid’s dream is to have one of those little plastic cars that they can drive. They come in Jeep, pink, and other flavors,...
Twitter This is said to be the oldest fake account on Twitter. The oldest known fake Twitter account @krails was created on Jan 15th, 2007. You don’t happen to follow it, do you? Twitter suspends fake accounts when it finds them. Problem is, it can’t always find them. The news that this account was...
Doing games on the Web right now sounds like a fantastic idea. How fantastic? Amazon has thrown its hat in the ring by announcing “Amazon Game Studios” with its first launch-title called “Living Classics”, which is a Facebook game, of course. Lets look at the announcement today, bit by bit, with some of our...
We’re revamping the LifeHacks channel here at TNW and want your suggestions. The general category of lifehacks is a broad one, encompassing lifestyle, home, business and just about everything. After all, you’re hacking the stuff you do to live your life, right? I’ve been a hacker since I was a kid, always rigging up...
Steve Kovach, Business Insider Apple confirmed today that it’s killing the native YouTube app on the iPhone and iPad when iOS 6 launches this fall. Big deal. For one, the YouTube app on the iPhone and iPad is a joke. It’s nowhere near as robust as Google’s official YouTube app on Android. Plus, you...
Owen Thomas, Business Insider April is an eBay Now courier. See Also Meet Yardsale, The Startup That Wants To Give You An Easy Way To Make Money Selling Your Old Stuff eBay Is Testing A Same-Day Delivery Service, Beating Amazon To The Punch It’s Time For eBay To Make A Bid For Groupon Welcome...
Email More Foursquare Foursquare has hired a senior director from Yahoo, Rob Wilk, as VP of Sales. Wilk’s task: help Foursquare make money. Wilk was at Yahoo for nearly three years. There, he oversaw 60 people who optimized search performance. He was one of Overture’s first ten employees before it was acquired by Yahoo....
After buying social marketer Wildfire for $350 million, Google wants to ensure it keeps earning money and the employees don’t bail. That’s why Google set up $100 million in earn-outs and retention bonuses, multiple sources confirm. One, an investor I spoke to directly, verified the $350 million price tag we published last week and...
It was finally that day when you get up in the morning, hit refresh on your in-house admin and smile to a huge grin to yourself: 1000+customers, WOW! To some of you this probably won’t sound like a big deal and maybe you’re right, but for us, a company that tackles SMB’s e-commerce sites,...