Facebook Paid $65 Million Settlement In ConnectU Case
alleyinsider.com — Facebook's settlement with ConnectU, whose founders include twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, was for $65 million, according to promotional material from their law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, a law journal called The Recorder reports. (Via Techmeme.) (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
Apple Surges To $100/share For First Time This Year
alleyinsider.com — Apple (AAPL) shares hit $100 on Friday before settling down to $99.72 at the close. The last time Apple hit $100 was Dec. 11, 2008. Since Jan. 20, when Apple and the S&P bottomed, Apple shares are up 28%. The S&P, meanwhile, is up just 8%. (Submitted by jaybol) More...
Amazon Sold 500,000 Kindles In 2008
alleyinsider.com — Next Monday, Amazon (AMZN) will likely unveil the next version of its Kindle e-book reader at a press conference in New York. But how did the gadget do last year before it sold out in November? Pretty well! Via a research note, Citi analyst Mark Mahaney now thinks Amazon sold 500,000 Kindles last year, more than his previous estimate of 380,000. (Submitted by TalSiach) More...
Facebook Growing Seven Times Faster Than LinkedIn
alleyinsider.com — Assuming Facebook's growth hasn't fallen off a cliff, it's now signed up 160 million users. As of early January, it was signing up about 430,000 new users a day, or 10 million users every 23 days. So after hitting 150 million users on Jan. 7, it probably reached 160 million sometime over the weekend. (Or will early this week.) (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
Microsoft Throwing Xbox 360 Tupperware Parties To Hook Women
alleyinsider.com — We've social gatherings of women to sell products -- so-called "tupperware parties" -- for everything from sex toys to botox. But this might be the strangest one yet: Is Microsoft (MSFT) using to tupperware parties to sell the Xbox 360? (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
How Google Flagged The Whole Web As Harmful
alleyinsider.com — If you were using Google's market-dominating search engine yesterday morning between 9:30 a.m. ET and 10:25 a.m. ET, you may have experienced some weird stuff. Google was flagging every site -- even reputable sites like Wikipedia and the White House -- as potentially harmful to your computer. Google fixed the problem fast enough (Submitted by inactive) More...
Sony: No PS3 Price Cuts Until Manufacturing Costs Come down
alleyinsider.com — Yes, we know the PS3 is expensive, Sony executives say. But don't expect any price cuts until manufacturing costs come down. That's what Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves tells Eurogamer today. (Submitted by inactive) More...
More (Hazy) Details On Apple's New iPhone
alleyinsider.com — Someone -- most likely Apple -- has been testing a new version of the iPhone, according to data from iPhone app analytics/ads firm Pinch Media. Details are hazy -- we don't know what the new iPhone does or what it looks like. But here's what Pinch Media founder Greg Yardley knows: (Submitted by benb24) More...
Why Has Knol Survived Google's Orphan-Project Killing Spree?
alleyinsider.com — We had thought Google was all about frugality and focus now: In recent months, the search giant has been killing off failed experiments like Twitter-rival Jaiku, mobile social networking service Dodgeball and virtual world Lively. (Submitted by doublefelix) More...
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