The judge presiding over the long-running book-scanning case between the Authors Guild and Google has issued an order letting scholars, librarians and a prominent digital rights group file briefs in support of Google. In an order this week, Judge Denny Chin granted permission for two groups to intervene in the case: one is the Digital...
Daily Archives: August 17, 2012
Source: OnLive Found A Buyer, Cleaned House To Reduce Liability Prior To Acquisition (UPDATED)
We’re hearing from a reliable source that OnLive’s founder and CEO Steve Perlman finally decided to make an exit — and in the process, is screwing the employees who helped build the company and brand. The cloud gaming company reportedly had several suitors over the last few years (perhaps including Microsoft) but Perlman reportedly...
Meet The Recruiter Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startups All Use
Daversa Partners Paul Daversa See Also We Just Hired The CFOs For Twitter, Groupon, Gilt, And Other Hot Tech Companies — Here’s What They Wanted IT’S TRUE: Top Tech Talent Is Now Leaving Silicon Valley For New York City Paralyzed Yahoo “Coming Apart at the Seams” There’s one name that’s been coming up again...
Twitter’s new Display Guidelines will not affect integrated apps like Pocket or Instapaper
As a part of its updated Display Guidelines yesterday, Twitter included a clause that said appeared to limit third-party apps like Pocket or Instapaper from integrating with clients. That’s not so, says Pocket in an official blog post. The section, 3b., reads: “b. No other social or 3rd party actions may be attached to...
Facebook Tests Unliked Ads in Newsfeeds & Mobile Feeds
Facebook calls its new pilot program to put more advertising in your newsfeed a “small test.” But that small test could lead to a big gamble. The new program, for the first time, lets marketers display ads in the newsfeeds and mobile feeds of people who have not liked, or whose friends have not liked,...
AT&T won’t charge for FaceTime over cellular — but there’s a catch
Apple’s iOS 6 software update for iPhones is coming soon and will, for the first time, enable its FaceTime video chat service to operate over a cellular connection, instead of just Wi-Fi. Sprint has said it won’t charge for Apple video calls over its cell network, while Verizon hasn’t given an answer either way. On...
Analyst’s Groupon target price of $3 per share is 36.84% below today’s close
Groupon continues to struggle in the public market, losing ground in four of the week’s five days of trading. Today, Evercore Partners downgraded the company, setting a price target of $3 per share in the process. On the day, Groupon was off exactly 5%, to a close of $4.75. Running the math, the new Evercore...
TechStars NYC leader David Tisch steps down
David Tisch, who helped establish the TechStars accelerator program in New York two years ago, is stepping away from his day-to-day duties as managing director. Tisch explained his new role in a blog post, saying he will be focusing on building new projects. Tisch will remain active with TechStars as a co-founder, investor and mentor and...
AT&T Won’t Let You Use FaceTime Over 3G On iPhone Unless You Sign Up For Mobile Share Plans (T)
As expected, ATT has officially announced it’s limiting how iPhone users can use FaceTime over 3G/4G when Apple’s new iOS 6 software launches. You won’t be able to use FaceTime over 3G unless you sign up for one of its data sharing plans that lets you buy data and share it across all your...
AT&T to provide free FaceTime service over cellular for data sharing plan users only
ATT will offer Mobile Share Plan users free access to Apple’s FaceTime service at no extra charge, but will not extend that to other users on its service, reports MacRumors. Whether ATT would charge for the feature had become a topic for discussion since Apple revealed that iOS 6 users would be able to...