Draw Something, an app that Zyngaessentially bought for about $200 million, is in trouble. It's gone from having more than 14 million players daily to around 12 million, according to AppData.To try and reverse that, Zynga is today releasing a big update for the game that will give it a bunch of... Read more...
Zuckerberg 2016? Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a 28.4 percent in his company but also controls 57.1 percent of the voting shares. He pulled this off by handing out $100 bills. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one good negotiator. As I noted when Facebook filed... Read more...
A new Justin Bieber video is circulating of Justin Bieber playing basketball with NBA star Steve Nash. The play date happened at Chelsea Piers in late June. How is this relevant to tech, you ask? One of the other players was Mike Duda (in blue), co-partner of Nash's venture capital firm, Consigli... Read more...
Is Facebook planning to launch a music service with Spotify as the music provider, as reported by Forbes today? Highly unlikely. What Facebook is doing, rather, is reaching out to multiple digital media companies-including Spotify and other digital music providers-to discuss ways to more tightly ... Read more...
Priceline founder Jay Walker’s technology company, Walker Digital, filed fifteen lawsuits against more than 100 companies on April 11. Many of the suits are likely to bring to mind the lawsuits filed by Microsoft’s Paul Allen over methods of content aggregation and recommendation. However, W... Read more...
Disney just bought Togetherville, a social network for kids, TechCrunch reports. Togetherville is for kids 10 and under and works like any other social network but under parent supervision and with age appropriate content. This is almost certainly a smart move from Disney. Their business is ta... Read more...
The marketing industry was rocked in 2010 by an influx of significant events that changed the way we do business. The following list is my picks for the 6 Events that Shifted the Online Marketing Landscape in 2010. 1) Net Neutrality and the FCC’s rulings Net Neutrality isn’t sexy enough to... Read more...