Daily Archives: December 31, 2012

The Complete Timeline Of Zynga’s Disastrous 2012 (ZNGA)

December 31, 2012
The Complete Timeline Of Zynga’s Disastrous 2012 (ZNGA)

See Also The Biggest Product Flops Of 2012 The 10 Worst Stocks Of 2012 Zynga’s Not Done With Facebook Yet: Check Out ‘The Friend Game’ Only nine months ago, Zynga was worth $11.5 billion, pumping out new games every month at breakneck speed. It seems so far away in time, given everything that’s happened...

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Amazon Explains Why It Took Netflix Offline On Christmas Eve (AMZN, NFLX)

December 31, 2012
Amazon Explains Why It Took Netflix Offline On Christmas Eve (AMZN, NFLX)

Flickr/Jdlasica Was Netflix CEO Reed Hastings right to bet on Amazon? See Also Amazon Gives Netflix A Nasty Holiday Gift How The Search For The God Particle Led To This Cool Startup Microsoft: Google Isn’t ‘Truly Serious’ About Enterprise Office Apps Amazon issued a long technical explanation and apology for the outage that took...

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Here’s Samsung’s Plan To Free Itself From Google And Apple (GOOG, AAPL, MSFT)

December 31, 2012
Here’s Samsung’s Plan To Free Itself From Google And Apple (GOOG, AAPL, MSFT)

See Also Suddenly, Samsung And Others Are Trying To Make An Apple TV Before Apple Can New Rumors Swirl That Nokia Is Working On An Android Phone Hewlett-Packard Plunks Down $500,000 To Help Linux—And Maybe Send Microsoft A Signal Samsung is expected to release a smartphone on a new operating system called Tizen in...

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The most promising Israeli startups for 2013

December 31, 2012
The most promising Israeli startups for 2013

This year Tel Aviv was named the 2nd best high-tech center in the world . There are a lot of startups here, some of which, even I know little about. The birth and death of startups in general happens at an amazing pace, and it’s even more exciting and innovative in Israel, which was...

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Reddit’s impressive 2012 stats: 37 billion page views, 400 million uniques and 30 million posts

December 31, 2012

Reddit has announced that in 2012 it served an impressive 37 billion page views and 400 million unique visitors. Additionally, the company has shared that it saw 30 million posts, and received a total of 4 billion votes over the past year — roughly 133 votes per post. Reddit first hit 1 billion monthly page...

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A look back at Microsoft’s 2012, and what’s next for the evolving giant

December 31, 2012
A look back at Microsoft’s 2012, and what’s next for the evolving giant

It’s difficult to state how large, and impactful, 2012 has been for Microsoft. The company has laid a new course for its key platforms, repositioned itself squarely in the middle of a new business model, and has set the stage for product unification and integration on a scale that it has never enjoyed. Microsoft...

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The Best Apps For Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions

December 31, 2012
The Best Apps For Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions

Humans are wont to misbehave when no one is watching. Hence the psychology of the New Year’s resolution: Kick off the New Year with a public declaration of the stuff you want to fix about yourself. The problem is that during those long, listless winter months, it’s easy for your attention, and your resolve,...

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China Polices Online Identity, Creates Marketing Gold Mine

December 31, 2012
China Polices Online Identity, Creates Marketing Gold Mine

Last week’s news that China is planning to restrict the use of true anonymity for its Internet denizens sent collective shudders throughout the human rights community – and may have piqued the interest of Western corporations seeing a huge sales and marketing opportunity. No one with any sort of soul could have been happy...

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Top Web Series of 2012 Set New Bar For Quality

December 31, 2012
Top Web Series of 2012 Set New Bar For Quality

2012 saw a lot of great new web series from surprising new sources. For what seemed like the first time, tech companies invested big money – and pulled big names –  into original online video programming. In this digital programming horse race there was one clear, seemingly from left field, winner:  Yahoo. Specifically Yahoo!...

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Stick a fork in netbooks, they’re done

December 31, 2012
Stick a fork in netbooks, they’re done

After beginning in late 2007, the age of netbooks is coming to close. Acer and Asus, the two remaining top-tier manufacturers of the small laptops, are ceasing netbook production today, reports The Guardian’s Charles Arthur. For a computing market that appeared to have unstoppable growth early on, the rise and fall of netbooks happened...

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