Google has about 1,200 employees in England and made £395 million in revenue there last year (that’s just under $620 million). It did, however, only pay £6 million in taxes in England last year. Unsurprisingly, that’s not sitting well with a number of British politicians and according to The Independent, Google could face a...
With the recent plunge in Zynga’s stock price and the quick rise and fall in popularity for games like Draw Something, it’s easy to imagine that the future of gaming is a fickle thing. But Eric Hautemont, co-founder and CEO of the company Days of Wonder, may have discovered a secret to viability in...
App.net, Dalton Caldwell’s audacious Twitter clone, just reached its $500,000 funding goal on Kickstarter with almost two days to spare. Just a few days ago, it looked unlikely that Caldwell’s user and developer supported ad-free Twitter clone would reach its funding goal. A last-minute push of new sponsors, though, just pushed App.net past its funding goal....
Dalton Caldwell’s Twitter alternative, App.net has reached its $500,000 funding goal with less than two days (38 hours) to spare. Caldwell announced the ‘open’ microblogging site, which affords its users 256 characters rather than Twitter’s now infamous 140 characters, after becoming disillusioned with the original microblogging pioneer and its opaque stance to developers and...
Over a dozen teams of entrepreneurs and students worked feverishly all summer in Chattanooga, Tenn.’s GigTank startup accelerator to develop gigabit apps that showcase the power and practical value of the country’s largest gigabit network. On Thursday, more than 500 techies, financiers and business mavens gathered to see the fruits of this year’s “summer...
Size matters when it comes to Indian IT services companies. Sales and profits of both smaller tier two Indian IT players — those with less than $500 million in annual revenue — and tier one giants like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Wipro — are both way up over the past 18 months. But,...
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Google and MAKE magazine have joined forces to organize the first online “summer camp” on Google+, Maker Camp. Mostly targeted at 13- to 18-year-olds, this ongoing 6-week initiative lets teenagers learn about science and technology through a series of daily activities around “the art of making.” According to MAKE’s Maker-in-Chief Sherry Huss, her team was first approached...