Google has reportedly secretly invested $100 million to $200 million in social gaming firm Zynga, according to a report by Techcrunch.
The investment is on top of other deals that have brought Zynga almost $500 million in the past year. The deal reportedly closed a month ago and is part of a strategic partnership still being negotiated. Google itself made the ...
The Mashable team is hosting our U.S. Summer Tour stop in Seattle tonight with networking, an open bar and awesome prizes. We're also excited to be joined by Rachel Sklar, who will be interviewing attendees on our Watchitoo live stream.We encourage you to participate in the live steam and suggest questions for Rachel to ask in her interviews with the ...
Pandora was once almost put out of business due to high royalty fees, but now is not only showing a substantial amount of revenue, but profits as well.
THE Internet is a Soviet bread line. Remember those lines? Back when commissars commanded the Soviet Union's economy like Knute commanding the tides, people would wait for hours in long queues for free bread.
A Boston University student dodged a big financial bullet this week as a federal judge overturns a ruling that would have him paying $675,000 for illegally downloading songs.
Appolicious - Things are really heating up with ebook readers for Android; a release from Borders makes this the third week in a row we’ve seen a major ebook reader launch a product in the Android Market.
The graphical user interface or GUI shapes and defines how we interact with the Web. These YouTube videos on GUI innovation can guide us to a more fluid and natural way to interact with not just the web, but with computers in general.
There are no iPads or iPhones in this collection. Their groundbreaking contributions to GUI have been noted ...
Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone, including $150 million from Softbank Capital last month and $180 million late last year from Digital Sky ...
PC World - Although many people already are engrossed in cyberspace, judging by the amount of communicating, socializing and commerce conducted online, we're at the advent of what will be a near total emersion in technology and the Internet, according to a technologist who spoke Saturday at the World Future Society conference in Boston.
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PC World - The immediate future looks bright for Motorola's new Droid X smartphone, which is scheduled for release this Thursday, July 15 on Verizon Wireless' 3G network. This big and brawny Android handset is benefitting from early reviews praising its beautiful 4.3-inch display, impressive multimedia features, and relatively long battery life versus comparable phones.
It's such a glorious Saturday here in Oregon but I've been wanting to put this post up all week about Twitter's uptime and its use as a measure of its service.
The connection to the cloud seems distinct as Twitter is simply the leading edge of what we can expect as using Web apps become standard practice for everyone, not just ...
Google has granted all Google Maps users the ability to view aerial photos taken at a 45° angle. Just zoom in at one of the supported locations and you'll get a better view than you could before.The feature was previously only available to developers and as part of Labs for Google Maps, a set of work-in-progress features that you had ...
The other day I was talking to an old friend. Not only is this friend outside the tech sphere, he’s just about as opposite of tech savvy as a person can be. He’s basically a luddite. In fact, I was surprised he was even IMing with me, he’s so seldom online. But I was more surprised by what he asked ...
A lot of the buzz for the iPhone 4 centered around iMovie, Apple's new movie-making app for the platform (available as a paid download from the App Store). While it's no replacement for a desktop movie editor, it does offer enough capabilities to make it a serious contender for your on-the-go movie editing choice.
When launching the app for the first ...
Back in February 2009 we covered the launch of DevHub, a startup that helps users build their own blogs and websites. At the time the site creator was pretty straightforward, with a focus on monetization through some syndication deals. This week, it’s modifying its approach: DevHub now features a gaming mechanic that’s designed to help new users turn their bare-bones ...
HTC confirmed on Friday that it is not going to produce a slate device in the immediate future; despite earlier rumors that the mobile handset giant had an Android and possibly Chrome version in the works. Eric Lin, the Global PR and online community manager for HTC, had this to say about tablets:
“We are always looking at it, but, right ...
Oh, Internet, is there anything you can’t do? iChatr, a new app for the iPhone, is essentially Chatroulette for the iPhone. It’s pretty barren right now – I saw the same people once or twice – but the quality is pretty good and if you have a Sing-a-ma-jig, you can actually make dour iPhone 4 users smile. To move to ...
The World Cup takes the trophy home for another week as expected, with three other related trends in tow - including a jinxing Mick Jagger, a psychic octopus, and a Portuguese footy superstar.Similar to last week's trends, American movies continue to rank high, and NBA free agent LeBron James hit the chart at number eight, even before he made his ...
AFP - China's renewal of Google's Internet license reflects a face-saving compromise between a political powerhouse and a technology titan who both sought to avoid a painful break-up, analysts said.