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Facebook Now in Over 30 Languages, Opens French OfficeThis afternoon Facebook wrote that the company had opened an office in France. This announcement coincides with Le Web which started today in Paris, France. Also related to Facebook’s international growth, the site is now available in over 30 languages in contrast to the 22 which were available at the end of October. The numerous languages available are clearly contributing to the company’s rapid international expansion. France has been rising in popularity for the company with over 6 million active users in the country, which is a whopping 50 percent growth in a little over a month. It’s no wonder...
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TV ratings - December 8: Season finale wins 6m viewers for SpooksBBC1 spy drama Spooks ended its seventh series with 6 million viewers tuning in for the explosive finale. By Ben Dowell...
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Music Mag The Fader Joins Forces With PitchforkIt's a tough time for magazines and for music, so music and lifestyle mag The Fader is teaming up with indie-focused site Pitchfork on content and advertising, the companies said in a joint announcement. The two will also collaborate on money-making events like concerts and festivals. While both cover a broad range of music, the style and tone of the print-based Fader and the web-only Pitchfork are markedly different. Still, both have been trying to expand their web offerings in the past year. Pitchfork, for example, launched a music video channel back in April and Fader has been building up...
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Why Twitter Didn’t Sell to Facebook — ReallyThe New York Times’ Claire Miller attended a Churchill Club function to fete Twitter co-founder Evan Williams. In an onstage interview, Williams talked about many different aspects of his micro-blogging service, which now has 6 million subscribers. First of all, wow — that is an impressive jump in the number of subscribers. More importantly, Williams talked about why he chose not to sell to Facebook when the Palo Alto-based startup offered to buy it for $500 million in stock. “It definitely made sense — the strategy we talked about with them — but it wasn’t the right time.” Or the...
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Research In Motion Cuts FY Q3 Revenue, Profit Outlook; Cites Currency, Macro Factors, Delayed Pdt LaunchesThe great cell phone slowdown has rolled right over Research In Motion (RIMM). The BlackBerry maker late Tuesday chopped its guidance for its fiscal third quarter ended November 29. The company now sees profits of $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion, down from previous guidance of $2.95 billion to $3.10 billion. The company said profits will be 81-83 cents a share, below its previous forecast of 89-97 cents a share. RIMM said a third of the reduced forecast reflects currency factors. The rest is due to “lower than estimated unit shipments of existing products,” which the company blames in general economic...
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Evernote Gets $5 Million Second Round For Web Clip ServiceEvernote, a web- and app-based personal info storage service, has raised a $5 million second funding round from Russia's Troika Partners. The product, which works across Windows, Mac, the web and mobile, lets people clip bits of web text to save as a searchable collection of notes for later perusal. There's a $5-a-month premium version. Evernote has handwriting recognition and sharing features. Evernote scored a $6 million first round from individuals in August 2006, when Esther Dyson and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin joined the board, but this round comes from the still-booming Russia. Troika also invested $5 million each in...
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Industry Moves: Yahoo's Chief Of Insights Joins Bunchball As CEOAnother senior exec departure for Yahoo: Chief of Insights Peter Daboll has defected to head up social media and gaming provider Bunchball. Daboll's pedigree in consumer insights is extensive, including stints as president and CEO of comScore, president and COO of market research and survey firm MarketTools, and COO of MediaPlan. Redwood City, CA-based Bunchball has raised $6 million over two rounds since its inception in 2006, with Granite Ventures and Adobe Ventures as backers. Release. Full disclosure: Bunchball was a sponsor of our 2008 EconSM conference Related Bunchball Gets $4 Million in Second Round Funding Social Media Deals Report:...
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Woman's Day Taps BlogTalkRadio For Online Radio ShowWoman's Day magazine is breaking into online radio with the official launch of RadioWD, a new station powered by BlogTalkRadio. The magazine's editors host a different 30-minute show each day of the week, with topics ranging from fashion and recipes, to managing money—and readers can tune in live on the day of or catch archived episodes on their own time. Not bad for a publication that's been around since 1938. VP and Publisher Carlos Lamadrid said that's precisely why Woman's Day chose to launch an online radio show: to evolve and become "very interactive" like its reader base, and yet...
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Beazer Homes Loss WidensFourth-quarter revenue slides to $712.6 million from $1.09 billion last year....
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Redstone Sells Midway Games For Pittance—And A Massive Tax WriteoffScrambling to restructure National Amusement's $1.6 million debt this month, Sumner Redstone has sold off the company's disastrous 87 percent stake in Midway Games for $100,000 in cash, assumption of debt—and a tax loss of $800 million, WSJ reported. Mark Thomas, described by the Journal as an investor without prior connections to Midway, is paying $100,000, or $0.0012 a share, for National Amusement's stake in Midway and assuming $70 million of senior secured and unsecured debt. Redstone will be able to use some of the loss as a write-off this year and possibly for refunds, but that alone won't solve...
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'Four Christmases' Most Popular Respite from Conversation This weekend, many of us headed to theaters with our families as a break from sitting around awkwardly watching television with our families, and trying to remember where our bed used to be before our bedrooms became mom's sewing room. Innumerable grandmas who hadn't been to the theater since last Thanksgiving weekend were again shuffled out of the house and into a darkened auditorium for two hours, where many slept. Here's what movies they saw, along with the official one-sentence grandma review of each film: 1. Four Christmases - $31.7 million. "There were so many Christmases that I just...
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TV ratings - November 30: Wallander brings 6m to BBC1BBC1's new detective drama Wallander launched with more than 6 million viewers on Sunday night. By Leigh Holmwood...
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Staff Members Get Surprise Five-Figure Bonus Checks — In this difficult economic climate, it's tough to know if you'll still have a job at the end of the year, let alone a generous Christmas bonus. But recently, the employees of Illinois-based ball bearings company Peer Bearing Co. got a big surprise when they opened their end-of-year-bonus envelopes: instead of their usual gifts of several hundred dollars, the staff members had each been given five-figure checks. The company was founded by the Spungen family in 1941, and has stayed within the family ever since. They've come to think of their employees as part of the family, too--many of their...
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TV ratings - November 29: X Factor on song thanks to Britney Spears boostThe X Factor hit its highest rating of the series on Saturday night, peaking at 12.6 million viewers. By Leigh Holmwood...
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$1.7 million for Greensboro Apple Store permitFiled under: Analysis / Opinion, Retail, Rumors, Apple I'm not exactly sure why there's so much excitement centered around the upcoming Greensboro Apple Store (my guess is it's because our friend Ged of the Iconfactory can't wait for it to open), but the excitement is there, and Ed Cone has some insight into how the store's deal got put together. Apparently Greensboro won't see the story by December 25th, as there's apparently some argument with the property's owners over whether Apple is "just another computer store" or deserves a better place in the location. You know our answer on that...
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Queens Gym Accused of Letting a Woman DieIlir Ademi is suing a New York Sports Club in Queens for its staff allegedly failing to administer CPR or make use of their defibrillator when his wife suffered a heart arrhythmia and died there last spring. His 25-year-old bride Dari Gracova was already brain dead by the time EMTs arrived at the the gym fifteen minutes after she first collapsed. Ademi claims that as his wife lay convulsing on the floor, club employees "came and moved everyone away from her" and then kept them away, refusing to use the automated external defibrillators that are required by law. NYSC has...
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Carl Icahn bought up another 6.8 million shares of Yahoo earlier this week, bringing his total holdings to 75.6 million shares (just shy of 5 percent). He paid just under $10 a share, or about a third of what he paid last May when he started building the bulk of his position. Of course, now he controls three seats on Yahoo’s board, including the one he occupies. So he is personally involved in the search for a new CEO to replace Jerry Yang, and he knows the stock will probably react favorably to the announcement of any new leadership....
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Is Yahoo Stock a Bargain?Carl Icahn, a hedge fund investor and corporate rabble-rouser, has bought 7 million shares of Yahoo for $67 million. That works out to about $9.92 a share. With that, his stake in Yahoo is now 75.6 million shares, or nearly 5.5 percent of the company, according to the AP. So how should we read into his move? After all, Icahn previously bought 70 million shares for about $25 a share and has lost $900 million on that investment. In other words, his track record thus far hasn’t exactly been awe-inspiring. His investments in Motorola, another company he lobbied to restructure,...
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Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news!Image by via CrunchBaseUpdate 28/11/08 22:22I have been following the devastating attacks in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in India and the situation remains extremely volatile. We are reminded again that the fight against international terrorism is a fight to defend the values we hold and the price we have to pay of living in open, democratic, liberal societies.The gunmen sought anyone with British or American passports with the violence widespread throughout the area and many casualities. The minute news broke of the terrorist attacks, social media sites like Twitter, Flickr and blogs proved to be valuable sources of information. Twitter is...
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Apparently no one told Carl Icahn this was supposed to be a slow news day ... the Yahoo director added nearly 7 million shares to his holdings in the company this week at an almost bargain-basement cost of roughly $67 million.  According to a filing with the SEC Wednesday, various Icahn entities acquired 3,697,181 shares at $9.7988 per share Monday, 2,704,780 shares at $9.9678 Tuesday, and another 376,843 shares at $9.9988 Wednesday. That brings his total stake in Yahoo to 75.6 million shares. This last batch averaged well below one-third of the $34.75 per share Icahn suggested Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)...
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