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Facebook IPO: the key players
Mark Zuckerberg, 28 Friday is probably the biggest day of Zuckerberg’s career since he launched what was then The Facebook at Harvard in February 2004. Facebook has gone on to be a global phenomena, a Silicon Valley legend and even an Oscar-winning movie. Zuckerberg’s co-founders have fallen by the wayside (and into piles of cash), [...]
Read morePinterest valued at more than $1bn after raising $100m funding
Move over, Facebook. Pinterest, the social site that lets people “pin” pictures and content to create collections of interest, has become the latest company to be valued at more than $1bn (£630m), following a $100m round of funding. While estimates of the effective valuation implied by the investment vary between $1bn and $1.5bn, they highlight [...]
Read moreGoogle unleashes sparkly new search tool
Google is revamping the way it handles searches in the United States to give users quick access to answers without leaving the page, the company said. The new search process is based on what Google calls the “knowledge graph” – meaning that it tries to pinpoint faster the context surrounding its users’ keyword searches. “Over [...]
Read moreFacebook IPO: analysts warn investors away
Analysts have warned small investors to steer clear of the $100bn Facebook sale after some of the social network’s biggest shareholders ramped up the number of shares they intend to offload. The size of Facebook’s stock exchange listing ballooned by a quarter after Goldman Sachs and other backers decided to cash in on the demand [...]
Read moreCory Doctorow: the problem with nerd politics
In the aftermath of the Sopa fight, as top Eurocrats are declaring the imminent demise of Acta, as the Trans-Pacific Partnership begins to founder, as the German Pirate party takes seats in a third German regional election, it’s worth taking stock of “nerd politics” and see where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Since the [...]
Read moreThe Twitter news map of Britain
What are the most influential news sites across Britain? Inspired by Forbes’s news map of America, we wanted to see how it works over here. Url-shortener Bitly – used by thousands on Twitter and Facebook – has shared data which shows above-average clicks for each of the major UK news websites, and where those clicks [...]
Read moreJohn Sculley: future of health is in the cloud
John Sculley – the man who as Apple chief executive gave the world the Newton, which was the first glimpse of the “personal digital assistant” in the 1980s – can see a number of possibilities opening up before us. A world without work for millions who want it? A world where we can diagnose strokes [...]
Read moreAaron Sorkin to write script for Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic
His legacy already surrounds us in the shape of iPods, iPhones, iPads and myriad other iconic, sleek and indispensable examples of 21st-century living. Now Apple founder Steve Jobs is to be immortalised on the big screen in not one but two competing Hollywood biopics, the latest of which yesterday confirmed The Social Network’s Oscar-winning Aaron [...]
Read moreDiablo 3 game review
Despite extensive stress-testing, Diablo 3′s global launch was bound hit a few snags. And sure enough, as the 23.01 deadline passed and BattleNet servers opened worldwide, literally thousands of gamers started a mad dash to install the game, promptly crashing servers … as it did again the following day. Buy it from Apple PC Diablo [...]
Read moreISPs told to come clean on broadband speeds
Broadband companies are failing to offer a speed quote to potential customers in 41% of their sales calls, in breach of a code introduced last year to protect consumers. A mystery shopping exercise carried out for telecoms watchdog Ofcom tested how many broadband providers followed the rules by offering an estimated speed without prompting by [...]
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