Archive for Archive for January, 2008
PayPal acquires Fraud Sciences
Paypal recently acquired an Israeli company named Fraud Sciences and spent a whopping $169 million doing so.
Fraud Sciences specializes in online risk management.
According to PayPal: “Integrating Fraud Sciences’ risk tools with PayPal’s sophisticated fraud management system should allow us to be even more effective in protecting eBay and PayPal’s hundreds of millions [...]
NYX <3 the Isle of Man
NYX Interactive recently announced that they’re going to establish a gaming hub on the Isle of Man.
In yesterday’s press release the gaming solutions provider announced that the Isle of Man will be a part of the company’s operations.
Having a hub on the Island will allow NYX to deliver it’s new gaming model, streamling [...]
Calibrate your screen
If you play with pictures, digital photography, digital imagery, gaming, movies, or simply like your computer to work how it’s supposed to I have a site for you to check out.
Screen Check is the simplest of screen color calibration we sites.
The site was developed for photography but is good for a few [...]
Free cell phone wallpapers
I came across this one and thought I’d bring it to your attention
Cellphone-Wallpapers.com is a site that is full of Free Cell Phone Wallpapers .
It’s actually a pretty cool site - it’s not full of banners, popups, and other ad-related annoyances like other free cell phone stuff sites are.
So, if you pay Cingular [...]
January 30, 2008
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Yahoo will be laying off about a 1000 people. Alley Insider says Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is basically asking investors to be patient for another year, according to Alley Insider.
eBay has announced big changes in the company’s fee structure and reputation system. The company will drop its listing fees, but charge more when an item’s actually sold. The shifts will hurt sellers of low-priced items the most, because commissions will increase by almost 60% for items under $25.
Paul McGuinness has been managing U2 for thirty years, and he thinks companies including Google, Apple, Nokia, Microsoft, Yahoo are the knowing beneficiaries of “countless tiny crimes.”
An EU court decided that ISP’s do NOT have to hand over the identities of people accused of pirating music through peer to peer networks.
Firefox continues to gnaw at Internet Explorer’s lead.
Digg has just under 3 million users, and has roughly tripled over the past year. TechCrunch points out that the Digg site actually gets a lot more visitors than this.
Videoegg just announced that it sold $1.5 million of advertising for its partners on Facebook over the past five months. But that amounts to about $2000 per application per month. Not much to make a living on.
The analyst who touched off a firestorm by saying unsold iPhones were piling up in stores now thinks the root of this is a lot of unlocked phones, rather than unsold inventory.
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