Mark Zuckerberg Visits China Amidst Rumors of Facebook Acquisition
Mark Zuckerberg began his China trip in Beijing, where he met with China’s top search engine Baidu. China still blocks Facebook, shutting out around 300 million potential Facebook users of their 1.6 billion population. This is a high-priority for the social network, so much so that Zuckerberg has taken Mandarin lessons “for a while now.” [...]
Read MoreDropbox 1.0 Is Now Live
One of my favorite applications I have discovered in the past two years is Dropbox. It continues to grow and perfect itself with the release of Dropbox 1.0 (Rainbow Shell). The beta tag is now off and there are even more reasons to use the service if you have been debating. Find out more reasons after the jump.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 12-17-2010
Blockbuster Now Makes You Wait Just As Long As Netflix Blockbuster put a lot of energy into their “Why Wait?” campaign, going in on competitors like Netflix and Redbox for having a 28-day delay on new release DVDs. Now, Blockbuster has agreed to a similar deal with the big movie studios. NCR, which operates Blockbuster’s [...]
Read MoreDr. Dre and Zynga Make Lucrative Music
Zynga is working hard to ensure that its social games stay nice and addictive. In a blocklister deal, Zynga has inked a music partnership with legendary rapper/producer Dr. Dre for its popular “Mafia Wars” title. This will be the first ever in-game music partnership that the company has made. For those of you unfamiliar with [...]
Read MoreSalesforce.com Brings Facebook to Work With Chatter.com
Salesforce.com has announced plans to officially release chatter.com early 2011. Chatter.com is known in the industry as a “Facebook for Work”. Salesforce.com has a segment of their service called the “Collaboration Cloud”. Within this cloud is where chatter.com will sit. From salesforce.com’s website, they like to describe chatter.com as , “a new world of real-time enterprise collaboration software-as-a-service. A world where collaborating at work is as easy as using Facebook. Where you stay on top of what’s happening in your company with real-time updates on people and groups, important documents, and your top deals and accounts. And where you discover new experts and insights that will make your job easier. All of it fueling smarter—and faster—business decisions.” Find out more details inside.
Read MoreDelicious and Others Shuttered After Yahoo Layoffs
Earlier this week, rumors circulated about potential Yahoo layoffs. Eventually, the rumors were confirmed in a leaked internal email memo from CEO Carol Bartz to staff. Here is an excerpt from the letter, posted in full at All Things D: Yahoos, I want to share some tough news with you. Today, we began notifying some [...]
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