Daily Archives: November 12, 2012

CHART OF THE DAY: Google Is Bigger Than The U.S. Print Ad Business (GOOG, NYT, NWS, GCI)

November 12, 2012
CHART OF THE DAY: Google Is Bigger Than The U.S. Print Ad Business (GOOG, NYT, NWS, GCI)

Email More Here’s a look at how Google has been swallowing up the print business. Its ad revenues in the first half of this year were greater than the ad revenues of newspapers and U.S. magazines, according to German statistics site Statista (via Slate). Statista Follow the Chart Of The Day on Twitter: @chartoftheday...

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Microsoft Slashes Yammer Prices 80 Percent (MSFT)

November 12, 2012
Microsoft Slashes Yammer Prices 80 Percent (MSFT)

Flickr/Enterprise 2.0 Conference Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s senior director, Office Division See Also Thinking Of Upgrading Your Computer To Windows 8? Don’t Why Microsoft Released Windows 8 With A Dual Interface REVIEW: Toshiba’s Funky New Tablet/Laptop Windows 8 Hybrid Microsoft today laid out its grand strategy for Yammer, the social enterprise startup it bought over...

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Twitter Just Lured One Of Google’s Top Legal Eagles Out Of Retirement

November 12, 2012
Twitter Just Lured One Of Google’s Top Legal Eagles Out Of Retirement

Google See Also These 9 Advertisers Are Killing It In Social Media How Dick Costolo Deals With Challenge Of Leading Twitter Without Being Its Founder Twitter Chief: Being A CEO Is ‘Psychologically Damaging’ Twitter, whose ranks are already stuffed with former Googlers, has hired another one: Nicole Wong, who left the search engine last...

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Amazon prepares users for the zombie apocalypse with essential gear

November 12, 2012
Amazon prepares users for the zombie apocalypse with essential gear

Amazon seems to be worried that a zombie apocalypse is coming to a city near you shortly. They’ve created a Zombie Apocalypse Supplies page that aims to get you set up and prepared with movies and novels — so you know what you’ll be facing — and gear to keep you safe. The Brain...

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The Senate may resurrect the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 in lame duck, allowing it a second death this year

November 12, 2012

Great news for you folks who worry about the safety of critical infrastructure here in the United States: The Senate may get back to work on the issue in its coming session. Bad news for you folks who worry about the safety of critical infrastructure here in the United States: The Senate bill is still kaput, and even if...

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Seesaw, a new social decision making company from the founders of CoTweet

November 12, 2012

Seesaw is a new company from three co-founders of CoTweet, one of the first big Twitter business services. The new company lists Aaron Gotwalt, Jesse Engle and Kyle Sollenberger as its founders. A Techcrunch report by Drew Olanoff noted that, aside from Betaworks, the early round is entirely made up of CoTweet investors. So whatever the...

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Jezebel Violates Standard Codes Of Journalism Ethics By Harassing Minors

November 12, 2012
Jezebel Violates Standard Codes Of Journalism Ethics By Harassing Minors

Last week Jezebel set out to shame some high school students for the stupid, offensive things they wrote as minors on their Twitter accounts while the president was being re-elected. But in doing so, the site itself crossed the line of appropriate behavior.  At this point no one is surprised when Gawker Media violates...

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Internet Explorer 10 Coming To Windows 7

November 12, 2012
Internet Explorer 10 Coming To Windows 7

After a month’s head start of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 users, Windows 7 users may be seeing their own IE 10 release as early as Tuesday, if rumors from Chinese blog iFanr have any validity. But will Microsoft’s staggered release plan just cause more headaches for Web developers? iFanr appears to cite...

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Skype Arrives For Windows Phone 8

November 12, 2012
Skype Arrives For Windows Phone 8

Microsoft quietly launched a preview version of Skype for Windows Phone over the weekend, with one major problem: you can’t turn it off. That means, unfortunately, that users who don’t want to be bothered by Skype contacts pinging them morning, noon and night will be forced to turn their phones off. Even “going invisible,”...

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Legal eagle flies to Twitter, joins growing flock of ex-Googlers

November 12, 2012

A prominent lawyer who negotiated many of Google’s censorship fights with foreign governments has now landed at Twitter. Nicole Wong, who in recent years fought to unblock YouTube service in Turkey and Blogger in Pakistan, announced the news today: New nest. Excited to #jointheflock. twitter.com/nicolewong/sta… — nicolewong (@nicolewong) November 12, 2012 While such moves...

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