Archives: 2011 August
AmazonLocal Daily Deals Service Comes to New York (Mashable)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
amazon local daily online retailer service offerings, go to New York. Amazon will begin offering daily specials in the coming weeks to customers in four areas – downtown, uptown and downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn. Early treatment includes a 50% discount on tickets for the newest Cirque du Soleil, Zarkana in Midtown, $ 13 to $ [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Analysis Vindicates Gingrich in Followers Scandal (Mashable)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was right in his explanation of why relatively few active accounts has revealed 1.3 million requested from Twitter followers, an analysis of Mashable. Earlier this month published Gawker allegations of an anonymous former employee Gingrich, who said the candidate most of their Twitter purchased trailers. (Thousands [...]
The Social Music Network: Napster Documentary in the Works (Mashable)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
The story of Napster, the peer-to-peer file sharing service that interrupted the music industry will soon be told in documentary form. The documentary traces the ups and downs of the music network launched by college student Shawn Fanning in 1999. Alex Winter, Bill of Bill & Ted movies, directed. [More on Mashable: Bon Iver and [...]
Klout Can Now Get You Exclusives at Funny or Die (Mashable)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
Funny or Die fans with a social impact will only have access to the Internet and shorts courtesy of the events of the partnership with Klout space, begins as actions to affect web users through a series of social sites. As part of the case, the Funny or Die is the sole issuer of comedy [...]
China official tells Web firms to control content (AP)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
BEIJING – The head of the Communist Party, these Internet companies in China to tighten control of online materials such as Beijing represses dissent and try to block the rise in the Middle East style protests. The party secretary of Beijing, Liu Qi, who issued a warning after a visit this week Sina Corp, which [...]
Exclusive: Privacy lawsuit targets comScore (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON (Reuters) – Online data tracking service comScore Inc siphons confidential information including passwords, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers from unsuspecting users, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of two plaintiffs who downloaded comScore software, also says comScore scans all files on users' [...]
Japan “computer grannies” grip Internet lifeline (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
TOKYO (Reuters) – Fifteen years ago, a growing sense of isolation due to old age prompted Kayoko Okawa, then 66, to knock on the door of a local volunteer center and timidly ask if it was possible for someone her age to start an online community for seniors. The energetic 81-year-old is now president of [...]
Woman who was assaulted settles Match.com lawsuit (AP)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
LOS ANGELES – A woman who sued Match.com after being sexually assaulted by a man she met on the dating web site loose its appeal Tuesday when he saw evidence that the site was screening its members for sexual predators. Carole Markin sued the website when he learned that his assailant was convicted of sexual [...]
In Silicon Valley, the Night Is Still Young
August 21st, 2011, No Comments
LET the rest of the country worry about a double-dip recession. Tech land, stretching from San Jose to San Francisco, is in a time warp, and times here are still flush. Even now, technology types in their 20s and 30s are dropping a million-plus each on modest ranch houses in Palo Alto in Silicon Valley [...]
DealBook: Star Analysts Are Back (No Autographs, Please)
August 21st, 2011, No Comments
THEY are the new tastemakers of Web investing, the supposed seers of Bubble-Tech 2.0. And despite the stock market’s recent craziness, they are almost as hot as some of the stocks they cover. Long after star analysts of the dot-com era self-destructed, along with Pets.com and its sock puppet, a new generation of Wall Street [...]
