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Posts Tagged ‘Industry news’Apple Finally Gets Beatles on BoardTuesday, November 16th, 2010Yesterday many people were interesting in Apple mystery, which looks like this:
And today we have an idea that Steve Jobs is nearing the end of his long and winding pursuit of the Beatles catalog. Apple Inc. is preparing to disclose that its iTunes Store will soon start carrying music by the Beatles, according to people familiar with the situation, a move that would fill a glaring gap in the collection of the world’s largest music retailer. Bookmark/Search this post with:
      Start-Up Plans a More Personal Social NetworkMonday, November 15th, 2010Facebook made oversharing with a small army of friends a mainstream activity. Now, one of its early architects is swinging in the other direction.
Dave Morin, who helped build Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform, left the company this year to start his own venture, called Path. He says it is not another social network he has created, but a personal network, and on Monday, it will open to the public with an iPhone app for sharing cellphone photos with a limited circle of friends. Bookmark/Search this post with:
When Bots Go ShoppingFriday, November 12th, 2010Like many awesome ideas, this one began with an xkcd strip.
One developer has just created a bot that searches for specific kinds of inexpensive items in online auctions then buys the items for him. Bookmark/Search this post with:
Google, Facebook Wrangle Over Data SharingThursday, November 11th, 2010Google and Facebook continued to wage their public war of words over openness, as Facebook engineer Mike Vernal posted a blog comment responding to a work-around that makes it easier for Facebook users to avoid Google’s recent move blocking Facebook from capturing information about users’ contacts in Gmail.
“Facebook Platform and the Graph API enable everyone to bring their own information to millions of sites and applications, including even Google’s YouTube. It’s still a work in progress and there’s more to do, but in practice Facebook Platform is the largest scale initiative to help you move your information between services that exists today,” Mike Vernal, a member of the Facebook engineering team, wrote in response to a TechCrunch blog. “Openness doesn’t mean being open when its [stet] convenient for you. We strongly hope that Google turns back on their API and doesn’t come up with yet another excuse to prevent their users from leaving Google products to use ones they like better instead.” Bookmark/Search this post with:
Global Trends in Venture Capital: Outlook for the FutureWednesday, November 3rd, 2010
According to Mark Lewis (Deloitte) on the global market will decrease the number of investments in the countries of the old world, and will be implemented in less developed countries that will stimulate the development of new markets. It was also noted that the volume of transactions in the U.S. in large markets will decline, while emerging markets will increase. At the event were raised questions about the involvement of venture capital in emerging markets. In order to attract investments to the market, the support of the state. Particular importance is attached to the tax environment(system). If you can not keep a substantial amount of income, it makes no sense to invest in this market. Bookmark/Search this post with:
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