<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101130/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_eu_google_antitrust”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101130/capt.ba96a9d32899497d85b0af9e5f4a2adc-ba96a9d32899497d85b0af9e5f4a2adc-0.jpg?x=130&y=73&q=85&sig=uWfeD5mlMy_8bIjTXxrKTg–” align=”left” height=”73″ width=”130″ alt=”European Commissioner for Competition Joaquin Almunia smiles while speaking during a session at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. The European Commission said it is launching a formal investigation into whether Google has abused its dominant market position in online searches. The EU's competition watchdog [...]
Archive > November 2010
Myspace Names Mike Jones Chief Executive Officer, Promotes Dustin … (MySpace)
MySpace: Myspace Names Mike Jones Chief Executive Officer, Promotes Dustin Finer To Chief Of Operations — Today, Myspace announced that Mike Jones has been promoted from president to chief executive officer, and Dustin Finer has been promoted from Chief People Officer to chief of operations. More information: click here
Apple looks to take over the world with iPad (Appolicious)
Appolicious – November 29 was another big day for Apple’s (AAPL) eight-month-old tablet, as the company launched the iPad in a number of new countries, including Taiwan and South Korea. More information: click here
Facebook E-Commerce Platform Payvment Raises $6 Million
Payvment, a startup that allows anyone to create and operate a retail storefront on Facebook, has raised $6 million in Series B funding led by Sierra Ventures with a BlueRun Ventures participating in the round. This brings the startup’s total funding to $8 million. Payvment’s Facebook App lets anyone create a retail store on the [...]
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes officially launches Jumo … (Jessica Guynn/L.A. Times Tech Blog)
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes officially launches Jumo, social network for social activism — Status update from Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and the social media whiz kid behind Barack Obama’s presidential campaign: On Tuesday he officially launched Jumo. More information: click here
Instagram Captures Their First Big Brand Partner: National Geographic
There seems to be a common cycle for many startups. First, you capture users. Then, you capture brands/celebrities. Then you capture revenues. Most startups never make it past step one, let alone steps two and three. The mobile photo sharing service Instagram rocketed past step one in about a week. And then kept going. Now [...]
WikiLeaks says it was under powerful cyberattack (AP)
AP – The WikiLeaks website said it came under a forceful Internet-based attack on Tuesday morning, making it inaccessible for hours to users in the U.S. and Europe. More information: click here
How To Turn Google Translate Into Google Beatbox
For reasons inexplicable, a “Today I Learned” thread on Reddit has turned into how to make Google Translate beatbox for you, among other things. It must have taken some intense experimentation for Redditor Harrichr to get here but it seems like a peculiarity of the German translation setup in Google Translate is allowing for playing [...]
If Causes Had Its Own Social Network It Would Be Jumo
Facebook co-founder and former Obama social media guru Chris Hughes has just launched Jumo, a social network for charities, in beta today. Jumo aims to help you discover what causes matter to you by allowing you to follow specific charities as well as keep tabs on what your friends are following. Seems simple enough. On [...]
How the poll was conducted (AP)
AP – The Associated Press-CNBC Poll on the deficit was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Nov. 18-22, 2010. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,000 adults. Interviews were conducted with 700 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular [...]
