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- After Losing Over Half Its 9M Users In A Pedophile Scandal, Habbo Hotel Hopes For New Life As A Gaming Platform
- Ericsson Files Patent Suit Against Samsung In The U.S. After Nearly Two Years' Of FRAND Talks Fail To Reach A Deal (Updated)
- TransferWise Adds Support For USD, Wants To Become Preferred Method Of Money Transfer For Startups
- Baidu Is Building Its Mobile Strategy But Says Don't Discount PC Yet
- Badges Beware: 80% Of Gamification Apps Will End Up Being Losers, Says Gartner
- Google Play Gets Real: Reviews Will Now Be Posted With Your Google+ Name And Picture
- STEM Ed: CodeHS Wants To Teach Every American High Schooler How To Code
- Microsoft Targets Growing Mobile Workforce With 15% Hike In Corporate User Licensing Fees
- Facebook Users Will In Fact Vote On If They'll Lose The Ability To Vote, Other Privacy Changes Denounced By EPIC
- PayPal President David Marcus On Cyber Monday, In-Store Payments, Data Strategy And More
- Gift Guide: The Pen Type-A
- Path Paves The Road To Asia, Adds A New Regional GM In Japan: Ex-Amazon, Apple Exec Shindo Kimihiko
- PRWeb Releases Press Release About Its Fake Press Release, But The Circle Of Trust Is Already Broken
- Netflix Releases Hystrix, A Service For Making Apps In The Cloud More Resilient
- Google Responsible For Other Peoples' Lies, Deems Australian Court
- We Draw Comics Opens The Doors To Public Beta Users For Collaborative Comic Creation
- The Social Commerce Attribution Problem: IBM Says Twitter Referred 0% Of Black Friday Traffic
- Gift Guide: Krups EA82 Automatic Coffee/Espresso Maker
- Firefox Beta Now Features New IonMonkey JavaScript Compiler, Built-In PDF Viewer, Retina and Touch Support
- Zillow Acquires Rental And Real Estate Search Site HotPads For $16 Million To Grow Its Rental Marketplace
| After Losing Over Half Its 9M Users In A Pedophile Scandal, Habbo Hotel Hopes For New Life As A Gaming Platform | Top |
| Habbo Hotel, the under-21 social networking site that had to close down and then "mute" users over the summer after it was discovered that people were using it to send minors illicit content, is opening a new line of business: as a youth-focused online gaming platform. | |
| Ericsson Files Patent Suit Against Samsung In The U.S. After Nearly Two Years' Of FRAND Talks Fail To Reach A Deal (Updated) | Top |
 Swedish telecoms kit maker Ericsson has filed suit against mobile maker Samsung in the US for patent infringement. The move follows nearly two years of negotiations to renew a FRAND patent licensing agreement between the pair, according to Ericsson. It's unclear exactly which patents are involved but Ericsson said they relate to "a crucial system for technology sharing" for mass market comms. | |
| TransferWise Adds Support For USD, Wants To Become Preferred Method Of Money Transfer For Startups | Top |
 TransferWise, the online currency exchange that uses the crowd to undercut traditional money transfer services, has announced that its added support for the U.S. Dollar -- a move that it believes, along with existing support for the British Pound, Euro, Swiss Franc, Polish Zloty, Swedish Kronor, Norwegian Kronor, and Danish Kronor, positions the company to become the preferred method of money transfer for European startups. | |
| Baidu Is Building Its Mobile Strategy But Says Don't Discount PC Yet | Top |
 Baidu shares have fallen 18% over the last quarter as investors worry that the search giant won't be able to monetize its mobile business quickly enough to outpace domestic competitors like Qihoo 360 and Tencent Holdings. But Baidu, known as China's Google, is confident that it will be able to remake itself as a platform provider for both mobile and PC. | |
| Badges Beware: 80% Of Gamification Apps Will End Up Being Losers, Says Gartner | Top |
 After hype cometh the fall. Gamification -- the catch-all term for rewards, incentives and loyalty services -- has become a very popular way to get users engaged in an increasingly noisy world of apps and online life. But Gartner says in a new study that many of the apps using the technique are becoming noise in themselves: by 2014, 80% of all gamified apps will fail to do what they've set out to do, the analyst house predicts. | |
| Google Play Gets Real: Reviews Will Now Be Posted With Your Google+ Name And Picture | Top |
 When you visit a review on Google Play for an app, book, song or movie, you won't have to worry as much about whether someone is sheepishly hiding behind a computer firing off nasty words, as Google has now flipped on the switch to display your Google+ name and profile picture with all reviews you add to the store. I'm not so sure this is the best thing in the world, 100%, as you don't have an option to turn it off. I like the idea of inviting people to share their thoughts, and mixing in real names and pictures if chosen by the user. That way, people know what reviews they might want to trust over other ones that are anonymous and thus, perhaps shady. The company seems to be choosing quality over quantity, though. | |
| STEM Ed: CodeHS Wants To Teach Every American High Schooler How To Code | Top |
 In the Silicon Valley Distortion Field, it can seem like everyone is learning to code -- that coding has become cool. Either way you slice it, talented programmers are in demand, and, as a result, there is now a litany of platforms and tutorials that propose to help anyone and everyone become a code-slinger, often from the comfort of their favorite sofa (and browser). | |
| Microsoft Targets Growing Mobile Workforce With 15% Hike In Corporate User Licensing Fees | Top |
 Microsoft is targeting the growing mobile workforce with a 15% hike in license fees directed primarily at companies that have employees who use smartphone and other mobile devices in their work. | |
| Facebook Users Will In Fact Vote On If They'll Lose The Ability To Vote, Other Privacy Changes Denounced By EPIC | Top |
 Some 17,800 Facebook users have commented on proposed changes to Facebook's governing documents, enough to trigger a vote on whether they'll go into effect. Today the Electronic Privacy Information Center asked Mark Zuckerberg to withdraw the proposal to combine user data from Facebook and Instagram and eliminate the same right to vote that users will assert in a seven-day period starting soon. | |
| PayPal President David Marcus On Cyber Monday, In-Store Payments, Data Strategy And More | Top |
 PayPal President David Marcus held an informal sit-down with reporters today in San Francisco to address the recent shopping activity over the holidays, PayPal's strategy on data and mobile, and the potential for the company to take a stake in in-store payments. | |
| Gift Guide: The Pen Type-A | Top |
 The Pen Type-A is a pen milled from a block of type 304 stainless steel that should last at least 50 years. It looks and feels great, and it's a good writing tool as it uses Pilot's Hi-Tec C ink cartridges. The ruler acts as a sleeve. It is precisely manufactured so that the pen slowly slides in and out, like a pneumatic cylinder. It's a pen for pen geeks. | |
| Path Paves The Road To Asia, Adds A New Regional GM In Japan: Ex-Amazon, Apple Exec Shindo Kimihiko | Top |
 Path's growth trajectory is leading it to Asia: CEO Dave Morin said that people in Japan and Korea were behind the mobile social network's second wave of new users after the release of Path 2.0, that China is the app's second-largest market after the U.S. and that it's adding more users in Asia than it is in Western markets. Now Path is capitalizing on all that by building out its operation in the region, appointing Kimihiko Shindo as its new general manager for Japan/Asia. | |
| PRWeb Releases Press Release About Its Fake Press Release, But The Circle Of Trust Is Already Broken | Top |
 PRWeb has just put out a press release about the fraudulent press release it released (and we erroneously reported) this morning. Ha. From the press release: "PRWeb transmitted a press release for ICOA that we have since learned was fraudulent. The release was not issued or authorized by ICOA. Vocus reviews all press releases and follows an internal process designed to maintain the integrity of the releases we send out every day. Even with reasonable safeguards identity theft occurs, on occasion, across all of the major wire services. We have removed the fraudulent release and turned the matter over to the proper authorities for further investigation." | |
| Netflix Releases Hystrix, A Service For Making Apps In The Cloud More Resilient | Top |
 Netflix is open sourcing its libraries for connecting the numerous services it uses on Amazon Web Services to keep its business running. Dubbed Hystrix, the offering is just another example of how Netflix has become the model for how to deploy and maintain a cloud infrastructure. | |
| Google Responsible For Other Peoples' Lies, Deems Australian Court | Top |
 Google is now legally responsible for every crazy thing on the Internet--at least, in Australia. The Supreme Court of Victoria fined Google $200,000 for not removing defamatory rumors linking music promoter, Milorad Trkulja, to organized crime. The court reasoned that Google is a "publisher" because it displays content and links to offending websites. | |
| We Draw Comics Opens The Doors To Public Beta Users For Collaborative Comic Creation | Top |
 I love a good comic jam. Back in my salad days at college, this generally involved sitting in a smokey dive bar with mostly strangers passing around notebooks of large format sketchpads taking turns penciling, inking and coloring panels working towards building a complete story one panel at a time. It's the prefect experience to try to replicate on the web, and that's just what Tyler Hutchison has done with We Draw Comics. | |
| The Social Commerce Attribution Problem: IBM Says Twitter Referred 0% Of Black Friday Traffic | Top |
 Twitter and Facebook usually aren't the last click before an ecommerce buy, but that doesn't mean they didn't inspire or influence the purchase. Yet IBM's Black Friday report says Twitter delivered 0% of referral traffic and Facebook sent just 0.68%. To lure advertisers and ecommerce integrations, they have to show its not Google driving every sale. | |
| Gift Guide: Krups EA82 Automatic Coffee/Espresso Maker | Top |
 People like coffee. People like coffeemakers. People like coffeemakers that make great coffee. That's why you should look into the EA82, Krups' fanciest coffee maker, an all-automatic espresso and long coffee maker that makes a nearly perfect cup with your own beans nearly every time. It's probably one of the best home, push-button coffee makers I've ever used. | |
| Firefox Beta Now Features New IonMonkey JavaScript Compiler, Built-In PDF Viewer, Retina and Touch Support | Top |
 Today is beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most interesting updates, including the new IonMonkey just-in-time JavaScript compiler, as well as support for Macs with Retina displays and W3C Touch Event support for machines with touchscreens. On Android, Firefox now offers better phishing protection and - as an opt-in - search suggestions. | |
| Zillow Acquires Rental And Real Estate Search Site HotPads For $16 Million To Grow Its Rental Marketplace | Top |
 Zillow just announced that it has acquired the San Francisco-based rental and real estate search site HotPads for $16 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012. This acquisition marks the first time that Zillow has acquired a primarily consumer-facing company and Zillow says it is making this acquisition to "expand the size of its growing rental audience and extend the reach of its marketing tools and productivity solutions for rental professionals." | |
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