Good morning! A LOT of news:
* Zynga raised a gigantic $147 million round from Softbank Capital to fund an Asian expansion.
* Twitter rolled out its "Places" feature allowing people to tweet their exact locations. Twitter integrated Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins with the feature.
* RIM is working on another touch screen smartphone and a tablet. These new units are expected before year end.
* iPhone 4 pre-orders start today. The store is down for now, so you can read our guide to buying an iPhone in the interim.
* Apple released an updated Mac mini model this morning also. It starts at $699 and sports an HDMI port.
* The hackers that exposed the AT&T iPad flaw, are now saying there's a big hole in the Safari mobile browser.
* Tesla updated its IPO. peHUB says it hoping for a $1.46 billion valuation.
* Margit Wennmachers, the founder of OutCast communications, is joining venture capital group Andreessen Horowitz as a partner. She'll help with marketing portfolio companies.
* Google's music store could be launching by fall.
* When Meg Whitman was CEO of eBay she shoved an employee named Young Mi Kim. Kim threatened to sue, but eBay paid a $200,000 settlement to Kim.
Read more: Business Insider
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Business Insider: 10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
MORNING:
* AT&T was hacked, resulting in the exposure of the email address of over a hundred thousand iPad 3G owners, including major hot shots like Mayor Bloomberg and Rahm Emmanuel.
* Google is freaked because Apple is not going to let it advertise in iPhone apps. Now the Feds are getting involved.
* Bill Gates, John Doerr, and Jeff Immelt want the U.S. to triple spending on energy research.
* Here's a cool rumor: T-Mobile will make all phones free for one day -- June 19.
* Apple updated its Safari browser and added extensions. Here's 25 extensions available to install today.
* A year after Zynga unleashed FarmVille on the world, it is releasing FrontierVille, a new game that's similar to FarmVille, but has a few twists says TechCrunch.
* Linden Labs, the company behind Second Life laid off 30% of its staff.
* The Netflix/Hulu effect: The percentage of people watching full length movies on the web has doubled in the last year, writes Joesph Tartakoff at PaidContent.
* iFixYouri, a site claiming to have an iPhone 4 minus the circuit board
, did some tests on the screen. Turns out it will break just like an other iPhone, despite all the talk of a super strong screen.
* If you haven't yet, do read the big feature we have on the "Startup Con Man," it's quite a tale.
Read more: Business Insider
* AT&T was hacked, resulting in the exposure of the email address of over a hundred thousand iPad 3G owners, including major hot shots like Mayor Bloomberg and Rahm Emmanuel.
* Google is freaked because Apple is not going to let it advertise in iPhone apps. Now the Feds are getting involved.
* Bill Gates, John Doerr, and Jeff Immelt want the U.S. to triple spending on energy research.
* Here's a cool rumor: T-Mobile will make all phones free for one day -- June 19.
* Apple updated its Safari browser and added extensions. Here's 25 extensions available to install today.
* A year after Zynga unleashed FarmVille on the world, it is releasing FrontierVille, a new game that's similar to FarmVille, but has a few twists says TechCrunch.
* Linden Labs, the company behind Second Life laid off 30% of its staff.
* The Netflix/Hulu effect: The percentage of people watching full length movies on the web has doubled in the last year, writes Joesph Tartakoff at PaidContent.
* iFixYouri, a site claiming to have an iPhone 4 minus the circuit board
, did some tests on the screen. Turns out it will break just like an other iPhone, despite all the talk of a super strong screen.
* If you haven't yet, do read the big feature we have on the "Startup Con Man," it's quite a tale.
Read more: Business Insider
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