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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Access Industries Inc., the conglomerate controlled by investor Len Blavatnik, was the leading bidder late Wednesday for Warner Music Group Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, putting the Russian-born billionaire close to a deal for the world’s third-largest recorded-music company. Read More »
GrandCentral (aka Google Voice) co-founder Craig Walker has emerged from being an entrepreneur in residence at Google Ventures to start working on a specific project. Well, make that projects, plural–Walker is today launching a company called Firespotter Labs that will develop various companies, three of them at the start. Read More »
Barnes & Noble Inc. will unveil a new electronic book reader later this month, the bookseller told analysts and investors on Wednesday, according to a federal filing released after the close of trading. Read More »
Whoever attacked Sony’s computers left a calling card meant to make it look like the work of the loosely affiliated group Anonymous. The group says it had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, Sony has called for help. Read More »
In a big win for Apple Inc., magazine publisher Hearst Corp. has agreed to sell subscriptions to the iPad editions of a range of its publications through iTunes, beginning with three of its popular magazines, the publisher said. Read More »
Electronic Arts Paid Less Than $25 Million to Acquire Firemint
Despite rumors circulating that Electronic Arts paid between $40 and $100 million for Firemint, the company confirmed during its fourth-quarter conference call today that it paid less than $25 million. Based in Australia, Firemint has released such hit titles for the iPhone as Flight Control and Real Racing. As of January 2010, it had sold 3.9 million copies of Flight Control, which currently costs 99 cents in the App Store. EA said the purchase of Firemint is in line with its philosophy of making small strategic digital acquisitions.
The challenged WiMax network operator said revenue grew and predicted faster subscriber growth for this year, but also took a big charge related to towers it no longer expects to build. However, revenue more than doubled from a year ago and the company hiked its subscriber forecast. Read More »
OpenTable’s stock continued a free fall today, dropping $15.65, or roughly 14.9 percent, to trade at $89.35 a share. Read More »
Boingo Wireless Drops in First Day of Trading
Paid Wi-Fi specialist Boingo Wireless saw its stock drop Wednesday in the first day of trading after its public offering. The stock priced at $13.50 a share, toward the high end of its expected range. However, it opened down and kept going, closing at $12.10, down 10.37 percent.
Electronic Arts, the massive videogame publisher, reported solid fiscal year-end results today, including higher than expected revenues from its digital business. Read More »
A narrow miss, but still a miss: Revenues of $8.26 billion and adjusted earnings of $0.26 per share. Analysts were looking for revenue of $8.42 billion and earnings of $0.27 per share. Meanwhile, MySpace is still a sore (and expensive) spot… Read More »
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »
An olive branch, offered in a back-handed way, to Reed Hastings and company. Who seem glad to take it, by the way. Read More »
The role of the independent game developer is alive and well today, with more opportunities than ever to get games in front of consumers. A survey found that although independent developers make far less money than salaried employees, they felt the industry was more innovative than ever, calling 2010 “the year of the indie.” Read More »
Intel demonstrates a new 3-D transistor technology that’s coming to its next generation of chips, expected to start shipping at the end of this year. Read More »
This is strangely funny–Will Ferrell, who did that genius impersonation of former President George W. Bush on “Saturday Night Live,” returns to Funny or Die to report from a Sizzler buffet bar about a gopher raid.
And, oh yes, that Osama bin Laden thing too. Read More »
With the update, Apple says it is reducing the amount of location information cached on the iPhone and also making sure that, for those who turn off location-based services, the cache is deleted entirely. Also, the information will no longer be backed up to a PC or Mac via iTunes. Read More »
Investors are ravenous for social networking and Chinese Internet companies. That’s the only rational explanation for Chinese social network Renren’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange today, which raised $743.4 million and saw shares sustain a 40 percent gain in afternoon trading. Read More »
QOTD: And Another Similarity–Al Qaeda Doesn’t Discuss Its Succession Plans Either 
“Al Qaeda Inc. might suffer some initial setbacks from Osama bin Laden’s death, but so did Apple Inc. when shares dropped over rumors of Steve Jobs’ illness. But it did not take long to realize that Jobs has established a highly functional corporation, and the shares bounced back. The same can be expected for al Qaeda.”
– CNN jumps to an early lead in the Most Repugnant Analogy of the Year competition.
Web Commenting Platform Disqus Raises $10 Million
Disqus, a startup that operates a commenting platform for 750,000 Web sites, including this one, has raised a $10 million funding round led by North Bridge and Union Square Ventures. The start-up, hatched at Y Combinator in 2007, had previously raised $1 million from USV and others. It faces competition from Facebook, which just launched its own commenting system; Twitter may also offer a competitive product.
Earlier Posts
- Apple Will Take 76 Percent of App Market Revenues This Year on Digital Daily
- Nintendo Drops Wii Price In Advance of New Hardware Release on eMoney
- Exclusive: Efficient Frontier Buys Context Optional for $50 Million on BoomTown
- QOTD: The World’s Most Famous Live-Tweeter Doesn’t Want Your Money on MediaMemo
- HP’s Teeny Tiny Veer WebOS Phone Coming to AT&T May 15 on Mobilized
- Wall Street’s Cult Calculator Turns 30 on Voices
- Google TV Aims to Turn the Channel With New Release Later This Year on Mobilized
- Warner Bros. Buys Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes on MediaMemo
- Moore’s Law Is Alive And Well, And Intel Will Prove It Today on NewEnterprise
- CafeMom Launches Daily Deals and Plans Hispanic Moms Site on BoomTown
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