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Twitter is going to be going public at $27 per share which far exceed the initially expected $17 to $23. Quick estimates indicate that such a private would value Twitter at $14.7 billion. Twitter might have wanted a quiet IPO, but massive demand for the relatively limited shares in its flotation are
The FBI shut down Silk Road, the world’s most popular online drug marketplace, just a few months ago but it looks like the website is already being resurrected. The Silk Road is back. A relaunched version of the online drug marketplace has gone live today, joining existing alternatives that ha
A Seattle-based social gifting platform called Gratafy is enabling users to send their friends food and drinks from local restaurant using their friends’ email addresses or phone numbers. Starting today, you can send your friends and family members gifts using only their email address or phone
Four researchers from Dutch charity, Terres des Hommes, have designed a virtual 10-year-old girl in an attempt to catch internet predators. After 1,600 hours of posing as an underaged Filipina girl, the researchers have managed to catch over 1,000 alleged pedophiles. Sweetie, a 10-year-old Filipina,
Playing video games might not be the pointless hobby that so many people seem to think according to a new study which shows that playing video games may actually boost parts of your brain. I was always told growing up that playing video games was a waste of time. Turns out, those people were wrong.
Adobe claimed that 3 million accounts had been compromised during their recent security breach but now it looks like the actual number is 130 million accounts compromised. You remember that story about Adobe getting a security breach that resulted in 3 million accounts being compromised? Well, it is
Rather than wait for a private company to bring fiber to the city, LA is taking matters into its own hands and will be bringing fiber to all of its 3.5 million residents and their businesses. Google got into the Internet Service Provider (ISP) market in July last year, but it only runs fiber for res
It seems that the problem with startups is that the people are great at coming up with ideas and putting them into practice, they’re just bad a successfully running a business. Over the last five years, my firm Red Rocket Ventures has consulted or mentored more than 500 startups — nearly
After beating companies like Bank of America and Comcast to become America’s most hated company for two consecutive years, EA is looking to improve its public image. Well, this goes without saying. No company wants to have the label of being the worst in America, but with EA winning the title
Almost a week away from releasing its next-generation console, Sony announces that the PS3 has reached 80 million units sold after seven years of production. The PS3 system has delivered high quality entertainment experiences since its launch and has continuously evolved through system software upda
Samsung admitted that its software isn’t as good as it should be and is committing half of its research and development workforce to improving it. Samsung today admitted it needs to work on software, an area it’s “not as good” at as hardware. Samsung Vice Chairman & CEO K
Verizon already offers several tablets from various companies, but now it’s going to be releasing it’s very own tablet into the market. The specs are relatively comparable to other mid-range tablets on the market. It’s a fairly generic-looking black slate, which measures 7.72 by 4.94 by
