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BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good
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Founded in June 2005, BTjunkie has been among the top BitTorrent sites for more than half a decade. The site was never involved in any legal action, and to keep it this way the site’s operators decided to shut the site down for good today. The following message was posted...
Alibaba CEO Jack Ma To Step Down As CEO On May 10th, Stay On As Chairman Of China's Ecommerce Giant
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Jack Ma, who has been CEO of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba for the past 14 years (since it was founded in 1999), will step down on May 10 2013 but remain as company chairman — focusing on Alibaba’s strategic vision, talent development to grow the internal leadership team, and corporate...
The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets Virtual Asylum
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Last week the Swedish Pirate Party saw itself forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay. The Party and its leaders took this difficult decision after they were threatened with a lawsuit by a local anti-piracy group. Luckily for The Pirate Bay, the pirate parties of Norway...
Does your small business need a mobile app to stay competitive?
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With more than 750,000 apps in the iOS App Store and 700,000 available in Google Play, it can seem at times that absolutely everyone has an app--except you. As a small-business owner, choosing whether to join the app-development club can be a difficult decision. You may feel like you...
Copyright Issues Could Spur Changes To Pinterest’s Terms Of Use And ‘Pin Etiquette’
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Pinterest, the hugely popular website that lets people share photos and images on a virtual pinboard, has had trouble brewing for a while over what some people say are frequent copyright violations that happen when users ‘pin’ photos on the site without permission. But one woman recently discovered that...
Six tips for creating a killer brand for your company
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This post is sponsored by Volvo. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. There are misconceptions about how important branding it is to success, how much work it takes, and the best ways to approach it. But every company, from a fresh-faced tech-startup to Apple, knows good...
Lessons from Om Nom: The future of Windows and the web, as viewed from ‘Cut the Rope’
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Cut the Rope, as ported to the web by Pixel Lab. Om Nom is a lovable little monster, a character who can keep people playing “Cut the Rope” for hours under the simple premise of trying to satisfy his sweet tooth. But behind the scenes, the game by ZeptoLab is...
EA shuts down more Facebook games: Goodbye The Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society
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Electronic Arts is continuing the termination of some of its games. The company today announced that it will be shutting down three of its Facebook titles, namely The Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society. The games will go offline on June 14, 2013. From the official announcement: Today we...
EA Kills SimCity Social And Several Other Facebook Games (EA)
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On June 14, Electronic Arts and Maxis will be shutting down several Facebook games, EA announced in a blog post on its web site. EA says interest in the games has dropped dramatically. This news follows the well-documented troubles of Facebook game maker, Zynga. So, this could mean that people...
Tara Hunt and Buyosphere: sometimes the startup magic just doesn't happen
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What happens when the startup you’ve invested your metaphorical blood, your sweat, and your all-too-real tears into just isn’t taking off? Last week Tara Hunt, chief executive of Buyosphere, announced on LinkedIn that she was taking a J.O.B. with an agency. Hunt launched the social shopping startup three years ago,...
Nosedive: Microsoft has again killed off its flight simulator
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In 2009 Microsoft turned off Aces Studio, the producer of Microsoft Flight Simulator. A new title in that line hasn’t been released for more than a half decade. However, Microsoft did release a new flight simulator game, Microsoft Flight, in February. Fast forward today: It’s dead. Microsoft is done developing...
Jack Dorsey Gives Everyone He Hires The Same Red Book
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When new employees start at Jack Dorsey's payments company, Square, they receive a welcome kit. The welcome kit comes in the form of a sleek black box. In it, there's a square-shaped pamphlet that explains "The Four Corners Of Square"--a set of principles for the company. There's also a Square...
Find your perfect text editor for iOS with iTextEditors
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There is little that's more personal to a writer then the tools they use on a daily basis. It's what makes choosing a text editor such a difficult decision, but designer and writer Brett Terpstra is making things easy for those searching for one on iOS with his project...
EMI terminates its music licensing contract with Grooveshark
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Grooveshark is undoubtedly playing a sad song today, but its definitely not from an artist licensed by major music company EMI. EMI, one of the largest music publishers in the world, has recently terminated its contract with the streaming music service. EMI was the only company who had an...
Heins: RIM focusing on a 'smaller number of devices'
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During today's shareholders meeting, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins threw out terms like "streamlining," noting his plans to help make the Canadian smartphone maker a "lean, mean hunting machine." The plan includes limited the company's production sites, decreasing the workforce (with earlier layoffs he referred to as "an incredibly difficult...
Torrent Site Pirate Bay Claims To Have Moved Servers To North Korea
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The Pirate Bay, a popular bit torrent website, is claiming they've found a new source of refuge: the "hermit kingdom" North Korea. Various international litigators have chased The Pirate Bay all around the globe, insisting they cease and desist aiding anonymous internet users seeking cheap access to high-end, pirated content....
EA pulls the plug on 3 Facebook games
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Hope you weren’t building a simulated life on Facebook, because Electronic Arts is pulling three games off of the platform. The publisher revealed today that it will shut off Pet Society, The Sims Social, and SimCity Social on Facebook on June 14 (according to TheNextWeb). The company attributes these...
Grooveshark loses EMI contract, its last major label partner
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EMI has terminated its contract with Grooveshark, leaving the music streaming service with an uncertain future without support from any major label and pending lawsuits from all four of them, including EMI. The news of the termination comes by way of CNET, and in a statement Grooveshark confirmed the...
Curious when Apple products go on sale? This chart tracks when the first and best deals arrive
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Aside from the occasional holiday discount, Apple products usually have notoriously stable prices. However, there are still deals to be had for the diligent shopper. A new chart from Dealnews outlines when the first and best discounts on Apple products have arrived over the past year. Assuming that history repeats...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's Next Big Hire Could Be A Big Surprise (YHOO)
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Rumor has it new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to hire back a Yahoo executive who left the company shortly after the last CEO got the boot. 39-year-old Rich Riley joined Yahoo way back in 1999, when Big Purple bought a startup he founded. His team eventually created the Yahoo...
Pebble raises record $10 million on KickStarter, sells 85,000 watches
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The Pebble smartwatch has had a tremendous journey over the past three weeks. Not even a week after its announcement, the watch became the most funded project in the history of crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter. Eric Migicovsky, the company’s founder, and his team have since doubled in size from five employees...
Signs It Might Be Time To Consider Hiring A CEO
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Editor’s note: This is Part II of a two-part guest column written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures. In Part I, he offered suggestions to help founders determine if, when, and how to avoid hiring a CEO. You can follow him on Twitter at @vkhosla. As a founder, there...
EA Shuts Down Social Media Games Without Refunding Money
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Fresh off their victorious repeat of "Worst Company In America" Consumerist award, which the company brass explained away by reminding us how killer-awesome they are, Electronic Arts is now taking steps to mend the wounds with their customers. And by mending the wounds I mean taking down more games...
Top Yahoo Ad Exec Riley Departs in Wake of Recent Changes (Memo)
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In a move that comes as little surprise to anyone paying attention to insider baseball, top Yahoo exec Rich Riley will be departing the company. Riley, who has had a number of jobs at the Silicon Valley Internet giant over 14 years, was most recently the head of its critical...
Zynga Loses the Deal Guy Behind Lady Gaga and Snoop Marketing Stunts
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After three and a half years at Zynga, Jonathan Flesher, VP of business development, has left the social games company, the latest in a string of resignations. Jonathan Flesher According to sources familiar with the move, Flesher’s last day was Nov. 9. He could not be reached for comment, but sources...
Google to close Affiliate Network later this year
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In an email to users, Google has announced that it will be closing its Affiliate Network service later this year. Partner relationships will close at the end of July, but certain functionality will remain live until the end of October 2013. Email below: Our goal with Google Affiliate Network...
Microsoft ends work on 'Flight' in blow to games group
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Well, that didn’t last long. Microsoft confirmed today that it has ended development of Microsoft Flight, the “freemium” PC title that the company launched less than six months ago as a follow-up to its discontinued Flight Simulator franchise. We were impressed by our time with the game, but it apparently...
Six Nations 2012: Wales gamble on Alun Wyn Jones for Twickenham
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• Second row has played only twice since surgery • Wales make three changes for England gameWales are bidding for their 20th triple crown, but they have never achieved the feat at Twickenham, where they face unbeaten England on Saturday. It is a ground where they have won once since...
Sam Mendes Won't Direct Bond 24
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Sam Mendes Won't Direct Bond 24: Mendes spoke to Empire: It has been a very difficult decision not to accept Michael and Barbara's very generous offer to direct the next Bond movie. Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments,...
Pirate Bay Censorship Backfires as New Proxies Bloom
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As reported earlier, the UK Pirate Party has taken the difficult decision to shut down their Pirate Bay proxy service. Music industry group BPI threatened legal action against six members of the party, who would each have to risk bankruptcy to fight for their ideals. Understandably, the party chose to...
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