OnLive Assets Acquired by New Company All OnLive Services, Devices, Apps and Partnerships Continue Uninterrupted Lauder Partners Backs New Company as First Investor Palo Alto, Calif. August 19, 2012 — OnLive, the pioneer of instant-action cloud computing, announced today that on August 17th all of its assets were acquired by a newly formed company...
Daily Archives: August 19, 2012
OnLive reveals new owner, says everyone got wiped out
Cloud gaming company OnLive provided some additional details on its abrupt sale of assets Sunday night, including some information about its first new investor. The company, which let go of all of its employees Friday, only to give less than half of them offers for a job with its new owner, said that an...
The Facebook-Instagram deal is now worth just $738 million
The Instagram-Facebook deal was eye-popping at its announced $1 billion valuation. However, that figure was calculated based on a price of Facebook’s stock that was, in fact, lower than the price that the company would finally first sell stock: $38. Boston.com reported that at the $38 per share figure, the deal was valued at...
OnLive Sold To OnLive And Nothing Will Change, “Heartbreaking Transition” Notwithstanding
Faced with a dire financial situation, OnLive is been sold to another company that will do business under the name OnLive. Because the move is an “Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors,” wrote Jane Anderson, the new OnLive PR rep, “Unfortunately neither OnLive, Inc. shares nor OnLive staff could transfer under this type of...
Meet Mode-sty: The Shopping Site For Ladies Who Want To Leave Something To The Imagination
Newsflash: Not everyone wants to look like a Kardashian. Body-hugging outfits that show some skin are what we typically see on celebrities and fashion runways, so those designs are often highlighted in shop windows and on e-commerce sites. But in the real world, there is a huge population of women who — for reasons...
Darren Criss And Deborah Cox Serenade Fab.com’s CEO At His Wedding
Jason Goldberg Fab.com CEO Jason Goldberg and his husband, Christian Schoenherr See Also Gay Couples Are Getting Ripped Off By Estate Taxes Fab.com’s CEO Is Getting Married To His Boyfriend Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Is Spending $2.5 Million To Support Same-Sex Marriage Fab.com CEO Jason Goldberg married his longtime boyfriend, Christian Schoenherr, Saturday at...
Five things I’ve learned from 20 years of email
Twenty years ago, I did something that ended up changing my life: I got my first email address. Now, I’m not one of those persons who simply got their first email in high school, or through an AOL account. Instead, email was something rather mythical that I read about when I found a book...
From the PS3 YouTube app to Google’s Frommer’s acquisition, here’s the week’s media news in review
It has been another busy week in the digital media space, and with so much to get your teeth into, we’ve taken a look back at some of the highlights and lowlights, bringing you a snapshot of some of the big talking points this week. Stream of consciousness There was good news arrived for...
Lost Your Friends’ Phone Numbers? Use NeedNumbers.me To Pull Them From Facebook Groups
They definitely don’t seem as popular as they used to be, but every once in a while I’ll get invited to a Facebook group or event because some tragic fate befell a poor soul’s phone and now they need everyone’s phone numbers again. Getting all of those phone numbers is just part of the...
Marissa Mayer Grabs Another Googler And Makes Andrew Schulte Her Chief Of Staff At Yahoo
Andrew Schulte is now Chief of Staff at Yahoo See Also Yahoo Is Looking For A COO To Run The Business For Marissa Mayer Everyone On Marissa Mayer’s Senior Team Expects To Be Replaced Within 18 Months—Source Marissa Mayer Wants A Top Twitter Executive On Yahoo’s Turnaround Team Marissa Mayer has grabbed another Googler....