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Big news from the Asian web world today. Yahoo Japan (Japan's biggest website) and Taobao (China's largest e-retailer) have agreed to launch a cross-border initiative under which both services will link their online shopping services starting June 1. Through the tie-up, Yahoo Japan and Taobao merchants will be able to sell products to buyers in each other's markets.
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Dice Holdings, which provides specialized career websites for professional communities, has acquired the online and career events-related businesses of WorldwideWorker, a Dubai-based company active in recruitment for the energy industry.
The purchase price consists of initial consideration of $6 million in cash. Upon achievement of certain operating and financial goals within the read more »
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Since last week's chat exploit, I've received further tips of Facebook 'security bugs'. Only each time they've turned out not to be bugs at all, but, well, features. With regard to the site's privacy controls, users are clearly confused. This confusion, I suspect, is leading to over sharing, which Facebook's critics say is intentional. More sharing equals greater monetization opportunities.
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Who exactly is buying all of these iPads? If you think that Yahoo users are representative of the public at large (as one of the largest sites on the Web, they are probably pretty close), then you can get a snapshot of the typical iPad user by looking at iPad visitors on Yahoo. Or maybe not. But that is exactly what Yahoo did, and it wrote up its findings on its mobile blog.
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The online video world has begun to consolidate. Broadcast and online video delivery giant Harmonic has acquired video storage company Omneon for approximately $306 million in cash and Harmonic stock. Harmonic will pay $190 million in cash and issue approximately 17.1 million shares of its stock, which is a total value of $306 million roughly. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of
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Every year at Web 2.0 Expo, a handful of promising startups are invited on stage to give quick, five-minute pitches to an audience of conference attendees and a panel of judges (you can see our past coverage on these events here and here). Yesterday this year's batch of startups took the stage, and they didn't disappoint. My notes on the startups are below.
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Last fall, eBay acquired Korean auction site Gmarket for roughly $1.2 billion to expand to the Korean e-commerce market. Today, eBay is announcing a partnership with Gmarket founder Young Bae Ku to expand Gmarket’s existing online marketplaces in Japan and Singapore.
Ku will become CEO of the new entity. eBay will have a 49% stake in the joint venture and eBay and Ku will both put $10 read more »
Ku will become CEO of the new entity. eBay will have a 49% stake in the joint venture and eBay and Ku will both put $10 read more »
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"Hey Foursquare and MyTown, suck it."
Okay, Google's Steve Lee didn't actually say that during the location panel at the Web 2.0 Expo today, but he may as well have. While Foursquare may have just crossed 1 million users, and MyTown now has 2 million, Lee revealed today that Latitude, Google's location-based service, has 3 million active users -- and some 8 million have signed up since read more »
Okay, Google's Steve Lee didn't actually say that during the location panel at the Web 2.0 Expo today, but he may as well have. While Foursquare may have just crossed 1 million users, and MyTown now has 2 million, Lee revealed today that Latitude, Google's location-based service, has 3 million active users -- and some 8 million have signed up since read more »
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EnergySavvy, a one stop shop web application that helps homeowners become more energy efficient, has raised $315K in new financing from a number of angel investors, including Mike Galgon, founder of aQuantive led this round; and Karl Siebrecht, CEO of AdReady. The startup previously raised $580k in seed financing last year.
Seattle-based EnergySavvy allows users to quickly get an read more »
Seattle-based EnergySavvy allows users to quickly get an read more »
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Google made a small acquisition today of an Israeli startup called LabPixies, which is probably best known for its Flood-It! game on the iPhone (it's the new Tetris). But LabPixies also creates tons of games in the form of iGoogle gadgets, Facebook apps, Hi5 games, MySpace games, and Android apps. Google did not disclose the price of teh acquisition, but the number going around Isra read more »
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Every year, like the swallows returning from Capistrano or the tourists returning to Disneyworld Paris, Nokia releases a flagship phone. Sadly, the boatwrights at Nokia haven't dropped a winner in nigh on three years now and, if early reports are to believed, their new N8 is not looking seaworthy.
The N8 looks like the Motorola Devour and has a 3.5-inch OLED, capacative touch screen, a read more »
The N8 looks like the Motorola Devour and has a 3.5-inch OLED, capacative touch screen, a read more »
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Mobile Ad Network AdMob has released its monthly mobile metrics report for March, which takes a close look at Android OS traffic. In March 2010, there were 34 Android devices from 12 manufacturers available to consumers. In AdMob’s network in March 2010, 11 devices accounted for 96 percent of Android traffic, up from two devices in September 2009. The three primary versions of the Android OS all
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And you thought tweeting from space was an achievement?
Ukrainian TV journalist Julia Gorodetskaya (@gorodetskaya) has sent the first documented underwater tweet from the floor of a 19-feet deep dolphinarium in Odessa, Ukraine. The scuba tweeting session was broadcasted by local media (see subtitled video below) and documented by regional press.
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Online educational technology startup Knewton has completed a $12.5 million round of funding led by New York City-based VC firm FirstMark Capital, after securing a $6 million Series B round of financing a little over a year ago.
Returning investors include Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, and angel investor Reid Hoffman, who are bringing the total of cap read more »
Returning investors include Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, and angel investor Reid Hoffman, who are bringing the total of cap read more »
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Bill Gates is spending most of his time these days with the Gates Foundation, which he started with his wife Melinda to take a new approach to philanthropy after leaving his day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft. Gates has been blogging occasionally and taking and Twitter.
Today, he is going back to college on a speaking tour to encourage students to take on big challe read more »
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Apple in the US has updated its online store today, adding a shipping date and pre-order buttons for the different versions of the iPad 3G. And it looks like Americans will be able to lay their hands on the the 3G variant of the device "by May 7th". As with the Wi-Fi model, each customer is currently able to pre-order a maximum of just two iPads online.
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Read Part 1 of this series by Adam Hocherman.
I am sitting in the lobby of the Royal Plaza Hotel in Mong Kok waiting for the owner of the factory that makes our Neverlate and Quad-Timer items to pick me up. The final legs of my journey were largely uneventful although it was nearly 2am local time before I finally closed my eyes to go to sleep last night. Dealing with the jet lag on t read more »
I am sitting in the lobby of the Royal Plaza Hotel in Mong Kok waiting for the owner of the factory that makes our Neverlate and Quad-Timer items to pick me up. The final legs of my journey were largely uneventful although it was nearly 2am local time before I finally closed my eyes to go to sleep last night. Dealing with the jet lag on t read more »
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Thirty five years ago, give or take, I was presented with my first etch-a-sketch. And it looked a little bit like the iPad. Which makes me qualified to declare the iPad the future of media.
Or at least, that's the logic of an article in today's Guardian by Alan Rusbridger, who says that a block of wood that he saw sixteen years ago showed him the future. And that future was the iPad. < read more »
Or at least, that's the logic of an article in today's Guardian by Alan Rusbridger, who says that a block of wood that he saw sixteen years ago showed him the future. And that future was the iPad. < read more »