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Groupon, the deal-of-the-day website files for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company is seeking US$750 million. Proceeds will be used as working capital and “other general corporate purposes”, All Things Digital noted.
Prior to filing the IPO with the SEC, Groupon CEO and co-founder [...]
Twitter is taking their service a notch.
Twitter announced that soon users will be able to upload photos and videos to their service. “A hashtag is worth a thousand words,” the company said in an advertising. The ad also hints that soon people could upload videos via Twitter. It is the [...]
@gruber wrote, “”Imagine what else the system could provide if your Twitter account was a system-level service.” This is in reaction to MG Siegler’s post on the rumored twitter photo sharing service..
Macrumors asks, is Apple going to add twitter integration to iPhone?
Why stop at a partnership when Twitter [...]
This infographic shows the Geosocial Universe. It was made by Jess3. From a certain point of view, it also kinda illustrates a reason why Microsoft bought Skype. That’s 663M users right there, and they are bigger than Facebook’s 629M, hotmail’s 364 million, or Yahoo Mail’s 273 million.
Twitter’s at 6th place with [...]
If you’re just getting up and didn’t get a chance to read the Wall Street Journal before you hit sleep mode, let me get you up to speed. Microsoft is buying Skype. For US$8.5 Billion.
The hacker codenamed “Ryan,” and disgruntled members of AnonOps took control of Internet Relay Chat servers and channel used by AnonOps for pulling their Denial of Service Attacks. For the public, AnonOps is practically the hacktivist group called, Anonymous, responsible for denial of service attacks across the Internet.
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Frédéric Filloux drew some insights into the Osama bin Laden coverage, and puts that into proper context. Filloux suggests that news organizations must now rethink organizations, processes as well as business strategies.
What were his observations?
First, that Twitter is king, and he cites the analysis and visualization done by SocialFlow [...]
SocialFlow analyzed over 14.8 million tweets and bitly links to gain an understanding of how a single tweet could be retweeted to a massive scale.
A few days ago, my Twitter timeline started to discuss about Toyota USA using famous virtual idol Hatsune Miku of Vocaloid to promote their line of Corolla sedans. The adverts focus on the similarities between the car and the virtual idol, although the message cannot be easily seen.
I share the same sentiments with [...]
Symantec released its Internet Security Threat Report (Vol. 16). Using 240,000 sensors in over 200 countries, and territories, Symantec revealed that revealed that over 286 million new cyber threats were discovered in 2010. Most of the attacks were targeted at Enterprises. The report identified that most of the attacks used what it described as [...]
