Daily Archives: December 4, 2012

Sheryl Sandberg Just Gave Away $11.8 Million In Facebook Stock (FB)

December 4, 2012
Sheryl Sandberg Just Gave Away $11.8 Million In Facebook Stock (FB)

Facebook / Screengrab According to a new SEC filing, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave away 429,184 shares of Facebook stock on November 20 — a gift worth $11.8 million. The filing did not name the recipient. But in most circumstances, if the gift were made to a relative or a family trust, that...

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Mark Zuckerberg Has 68 More Shares Of Facebook Than He Did Last Month (FB)

December 4, 2012
Mark Zuckerberg Has 68 More Shares Of Facebook Than He Did Last Month (FB)

Cattias Photography See Also Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Is Out Facebook Promotes Bret Taylor To CTO NIGHTMARE SCENARIO: What If Yahoo Had Acquired Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg owns about $14 billion in Facebook shares—almost entirely in Class B shares, which give him voting control of the company but can’t be sold like Class A shares....

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The Guy Who Just Won $2.7 Billion From Yahoo Is In San Francisco Meeting With His Lawyers (YHOO)

December 4, 2012
The Guy Who Just Won $2.7 Billion From Yahoo Is In San Francisco Meeting With His Lawyers (YHOO)

@cabazan See Also The Guy Who’s Suing Yahoo For $2.7 Billion Is Going After It On Twitter This Former Yahoo Executive Is At The Center Of Its Mysterious $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Source: Yahoo Has ‘Numerous’ Ways To Appeal $2.7 Billion Judgment In Mexico Carlos Bazan-Canabal, the founder of Worldwide Directories, sued Yahoo after a...

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The DC Council has unanimously passed a “legislative framework” that will keep Uber on the city’s roads

December 4, 2012

Rejoice Uber fans, the next time you visit our nation’s capital you should be able to snag yourself a black car from the service. That was not a given, as the local DC government has been at odds with the innovative car service for some time. As TNW reported some time past, the DC...

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App Map for iOS now lets you see what apps your friends use, as well as people around you

December 4, 2012
App Map for iOS now lets you see what apps your friends use, as well as people around you

I’ve been meaning to talk about App Map for iOS for a while now. It’s a clever app that lets you see the apps that other people around you are using, as well as check them out and install them. It’s a clever kind of app discovery that I don’t think enough people are...

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Facebook to replace Infosys as part of the NASDAQ 100 Index on December 12th

December 4, 2012

Facebook will replace Infosys as part of the NASDAQ 100, the basket of companies that determine the movement of the NASDAQ index. The move is affirmation of Facebook’s status in the technology space, and could lead to a buying swing for the stock as index funds and other pick up its share to balance out...

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Microsoft – Motorola Wi

December 4, 2012
Microsoft – Motorola Wi

Good news for Holiday shoppers – Microsoft’s Xbox game console will continue to appear on store shelves. Judge James Robart, a federal judge based in Seattle, ruled (PDF) late last week that Microsoft owes Motorola some sort of royalty for the patents it owns covering 802.11 Wi-Fi technology and H.264 video codecs, but that those...

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A Eulogy For City of Heroes

December 4, 2012
A Eulogy For City of Heroes

I would like to take this moment to mourn the loss of a very good friend of mine, the video game City of Heroes. For all intents and purposes, the massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing game (RPG) died over the weekend, when its creator studio NCSoft turned off the servers. Yes, I realize my...

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Netflix Does Deal With Disney: The End of Flat-Rate Movie Pricing?

December 4, 2012
Netflix Does Deal With Disney: The End of Flat-Rate Movie Pricing?

Tuesday morning, Deathwatch-favorite Netflix announced a new partnership with Disney. While the financial terms have yet to be disclosed, this looks like a huge step in the right direction for the embattled video service. Under the terms of the agreement, Netflix will become the online distribution platform for Disney’s straight-to-video releases in 2013. In...

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Startups tackle the local neighborhood as the next frontier

December 4, 2012
Startups tackle the local neighborhood as the next frontier

Geolocation-based startups have been all the rage for a while now in the age of mobile phones, but there’s another element to location that startups are tackling: the neighborhood. More than just a point on a map, neighborhoods provide an interesting intersection between location and community that can be used to a startup’s advantage, both...

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