Daily Archives: March 12, 2013

The Battle Between The Web And Mobile Is Ending — Oh, And Mobile Won

March 12, 2013
The Battle Between The Web And Mobile Is Ending — Oh, And Mobile Won

Stay ahead of key mobile trends with BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s new research and analysis service focused on the mobile industry. Access the full library of research, data, and charts. Sign up for your free trial today New York Times New York Times website redesign See Also Jill Abramson Explains The Digital Strategy Of...

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More Prominent Credit Reports Leaked As Agencies Explain How Hackers Did It

March 12, 2013
More Prominent Credit Reports Leaked As Agencies Explain How Hackers Did It

Kanye West’s Social Security number and other personal information joined Jay-Z’s credit report on the site. See Also America Can’t Win The Cyberwar By Hacking ‘Anonymous’ Hacker Explains Why He Fled The US Chinese Hackers Could Have Disrupted The New York Times Publishing System On Monday a website published sensitive identifying information of 15...

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Facebook Built A $300 Million Mobile Business — Find Out How At IGNITION Mobile

March 12, 2013
Facebook Built A $300 Million Mobile Business — Find Out How At IGNITION Mobile

Join Facebook, LinkedIn, Trip Advisor and Disney at IGNITION Mobile on March 21, 2013 in San Francisco! Get market insight on mobile games, apps, devices, content and commerce. Register now. Gokul Rajaram will share Facebook’s mobile ad strategy at IGNITION Mobile A little over a year ago, Facebook‘s mobile ad business barely existed.  But...

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Tudou founder Gary Wang establishes animation studio in bid to build the Chinese Pixar

March 12, 2013

Gary Wang, the founder of Chinese video website Tudou, retired last summer following the completion of the merger of his company with rival Youku. Now he’s announced he’s getting back in the game with the creation of an animation studio that’s being billed as a contender to become the Chinese equivalent to Disney’s Pixar....

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500 Startups-backed GSF India opens applications for its second accelerator program

March 12, 2013

Earlier this month we caught up with Rajesh Sawhney, the charismatic founder of GSF India, and today his investment company has opened applications for its second accelerator program. GSF — which has partnered with 500 Startups and Seedcamp — is seeking 20 promising startups for the 9-week long program which will run simultaneously across ­...

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Mobile messaging service Line’s games platform hits 100 million app downloads

March 12, 2013
Mobile messaging service Line’s games platform hits 100 million app downloads

Line, the Japan-made mobile messaging app with more than 100 million registered users, has announced  that apps on its games platform have crossed 100 million cumulative downloads. Launched in July 2012, Line Game allows users to play games with their friends via the Line app. Once both parties have downloaded a specific...

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Attacking Big Data Old-School Style

March 12, 2013
Attacking Big Data Old-School Style

As more and more information floods into the Internet, organizing and making sense of this Big Data becomes more important and more difficult. New database methods are emerging to help process unstructured data, but IT developers and database deployers also have to figure out how to deal with the world of legacy technology. For...

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Microsoft Adds Flash Back To IE10

March 12, 2013
Microsoft Adds Flash Back To IE10

Beginning Tuesday, Microsoft is reversing itself and adding Flash back into the Internet Explorer 10 browsers used by Windows 8 and Windows RT. The browser will use a “touch-enabled” version of Flash optimized with Adobe. Specifically, Flash will be enabled with the Windows 8-style “Metro” environment by default, Microsoft said. It will continue to...

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How Your ISP Will Take Six Strikes At Suspected Pirates [Pictures]

March 12, 2013
How Your ISP Will Take Six Strikes At Suspected Pirates [Pictures]

The new Six Strikes anti-piracy program major ISPs rolled out last week — officially known as the Copyright Alert System — is geared toward catching those allegedly pirating copyrighted movies and games and, well, inconveniencing them until they stop. It’s framed as an educational tool, but given that the participating Internet service providers are bound...

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Microsoft’s vision of our future is big screens and big data

March 12, 2013
Microsoft’s vision of our future is big screens and big data

What do you get when you cross a massive touchscreen, a Kinect, some sort of computing device and a whole lot of data-processing technology? You get Microsoft’s vision of our digital future, both at home and in the office. The company’s struggles to shift from a desktop-and-server-based world to a mobile-and-cloud-based world shed some...

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