Brandon Watson, known to many Windows Phone developers as WP Developer Experience head is reportedly leaving Microsoft for Amazon – he is the latest executive to leave the Microsoft’s phone unit. ZDNet states, “It’s not just any job at Amazon, either. Watson is going to be the Director of the Kindle Cross Platform team. There he will be working on the product...
The day the “Internet” collectively stood still – the words really meant a lot if you know why and when such thing happened in the past – I am talking about the January 18 protest – the protest against SOPA and PIPA – the day when hundreds of thousands of websites over on the internet blackout for a day – the list includes the biggies too – name as...
According to an updated filling with the SEC, Yelp plans to list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in its upcoming IPO. Yelp which previously filed for an IPO in November 2011 – an IPO projected to be as large as $100 million. Along with this, the company also posted full-year 2011 financials, showing total revenue of $83.3 million, up 74.6% from...
Hacker group Anonymous turns a regular last working day busy for the hacking collective – the group reported that it has broken into the website of a law firm that represented a US Marine accused of killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Anonymous tweeted that it had garb email from firm “Puckett & Faraj PLLC” and accessed more than 3GB of data related to the...
Facebook SEC filing revealed a lot of interesting numbers – including the one from its client list – the company mention in its IPO filing that social game-maker company, Zynga, accounts for 12% or $445 million of the social networking giant revenue. Facebook generated $3.71 billion in sales last year – with some $445 million of that came from its Zynga partnership...
According to CNN, some U.S. officials are expected to get smartphones capable of handling classified government documents over cellular networks – the phone will run on a “modified version of Google’s Android software which is being developed as part of an initiative that spans multiple federal agencies and government contractors.” The Army has been testing touchscreen devices at U.S. bases for nearly two years, said Michael McCarthy, a director for the Army’s Brigade Modernization Command. About 40 phones were sent to fighters...
According to AdAge, Facebook does very little marketing – but it probably be changing from as of now as the company made a new hire – on bringing former Levi’s and Apple executive Rebecca Van Dyck to head global marketing. Prior to joining Facebook, Dyck worked as Levi’s Global CMO for the period of 10 months – where her role is to see the company’s global...
As we reported earlier, a group of European regulators, Article 29 Working Party has asked Google to halt the process of its new privacy policy – suggesting they need to investigate whether the proposals truly protects users’ personal data or not. The Article 29 Working Party, an independent body that brings together data protection authorities from each of the...
Hacker group Anonymous is making one move to another since from the time when feds knocked out Megaupload last month. The group first with 5,635 participants hacked RIAA (the record industry’s lobbying arm), MPAA (the movie industry’s lobbying arm), Universal Music, and the Department of Justice websites. Moving to the next, the group continues it strikes with shutting down CBS website for approximately 20 minutes. On January 26, twenty-two states of European Union had attended the ceremony in Japan and signed the Anti-Counterfeiting...
Hacker group Anonymous earlier today hacked Greek Ministry of Justice Website in protest against the ACTA treaty – and now the Anonymous group posted the tweet on the micro-blogging site with a line to an intercepted FBI/Scotland Yard telephone conference call. The conference call included two Metropolitan Police officer and four LA-based FBI agents. It wasn’t legitimate immediately that whether the call been intercepted or not, but now FBI confirmed that hackers had indeed intercepted a conference call that had been set up between...
