Here’s the latest action:
Murdoch appears to have enough Bancroft family support for purchase –The jury is still officially out, but the NYT is saying it looks like Dow Jones and its jewel, the Wall Street Journal, will indeed to go to Murdoch’s News Corp.
Hakia’s Scoop Bar — Hakia, one of the new search engines trying [...]
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Facebook was down for hours today — the company’s error screen says this was due to an upgrade.
Multiple sources, though, are pointing to an error which lets users log in as other users and read the contents of their inboxes — although we have yet to see this for ourselves. We’re awaiting a response from [...]
Berggi, a company whose product lets you transform an ordinary “dumb” phone into a princely one that can send e-mail, instant messages, and free SMS texts, has raised $9 million.
Avanzit, a major telecom company in Spain, led the round.
Berggi, of Houston, TX, will build new location-aware applications employing Avanzit’s mobile GPS capabilities.
Until [...]
Facebook completely removed the Audio music-sharing application from its platform last night, saying it violated music copyrights.
Audio was developed by a third-party using Facebook’s platform for developers, and Facebook says Audio violates its newly updated developer terms of service.
Audio allowed users to upload audio files in the mp3 format, share them with each other and [...]
Vringo, a company that lets you choose video clips and then send them to your buddies as ringtones, has raised $12 million in second round of financing.
You download a software to your mobile phone, which lets you select from a group of clips. You then call your buddies and they’ll get the clip. They, in [...]