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Hitler parodies go the way of the Third Reich

by Matt Bowman, April 21, 2010 | Comments

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One of the most popular memes of recent history is being axed by Constantin Films.

If you have an Internet connection, you’ve probably seen a parody of the Hitler breakdown scene from the German movie The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich (aka Der Untergang). The unofficial rules for this meme are simple: take any issue that irks someone, the more trivial the better, replace the scene’s subtitled translations turning the Fuhrer ...

Salesforce purchases Jigsaw for $142 million

by Ronny Kerr, April 21, 2010 | Comments

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Jigsaw, Wikipedia of business cards, acquired by Salesforce for its crowd-sourced business data

Salesforce, one of the most successful SaaS companies for business software, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Jigsaw for $142 million in cash, in addition to a potential $14 million in earn-outs. An acquisition of Jigsaw was something Bambi Francisco predicted in an episode of VatorBox, titled "Will Jigsaw be acquired, or has it peaked?" Jigsaw seeks to ...

How the Maltese iPhone got away

by Matt Bowman, April 20, 2010 | Comments

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A bit of disbelief, beer and a buggy OS created a smokescreen thick enough to blind Apple's agents

You'd think that Apple, the undisputed heavyweight champion of corporate security, would have been able to track down a lost iPhone prototype gone missing for a month before Gizmodo could publish a story on it. Apple likely knew the phone was missing an entire 4 weeks before the story, the biggest scoop in tech memory, hit the intertubes.That consideration has ...

Google reveals government requests for data

by Ronny Kerr, April 20, 2010 | Comments

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New tool lets people see government requests directed to Google and YouTube

A month after shutting down its main search service in China in response to cyber attacks targeted at human rights activists stateside, Google has announced today a new tool aiming at providing greater transparency about the quantity and quality of government requests the company receives.As one of the Web's largest providers of information content, Google regularly receives demands from governments ...

How CrowdFlower powered Haiti relief

by Matt Bowman, April 20, 2010 | Comments

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Crowdsourced translation of text messages helps shape future disaster response efforts.

Katie Stanton, a former Google and Yahoo employee, had been in her new job at the U.S. State Department for less than a week when, on January 12th, 2010, she learned of the earthquake that had ravaged Haiti that afternoon. Stanton wasted little time. Within 48 hours, she persuaded Haiti’s mobile operators to assign a short-code emergency number — 4636 ...

Nielsen: Facebook ads effective for fans

by Ronny Kerr, April 20, 2010 | Comments

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Latest Nielsen report reveals ads on Facebook prove more valuable when targeting fans of a brand

Facebook users are much more likely to engage with advertising content on the social networking site if they are fans of the brand doing the advertising, according to the first report to be born out of the Nielsen and Facebook collaboration announced last fall.For the study, Nielsen has for six months now monitored the interaction of over 800,000 Facebook users ...

iPhone 4G leaked, thanks to too much beer

by Matt Bowman, April 19, 2010 | Comments

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You can credit German brew for your first look at Apple's next iPhone. Front camera, flash included.

It's not at all beyond Apple to create an elaborate PR stunt via controlled product leak. Nonetheless, it seems likely that a young Apple employee made the honest mistake of leaving his next-generation iPhone 4G on a barstool at the Gourmet Haus Staudt beer garden in Redwood City after a few brewskies on the night of March 18. A young ...

Facebook fleshing out fan, Community Pages

by Ronny Kerr, April 19, 2010 | Comments

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Community Pages to be "the best collection of shared knowledge on a topic"

Foreshadowing an avalanche of updates to be unveiled this week, Facebook just announced a complete reworking of how connections will work on its site--connections to topics, connections to regions, connections to interests, and more.First, Facebook is launching a completely new category called Community Pages, meant to be "the best collection of shared knowledge on [some] topic." Don't be surprised if ...

BlackArrow raises $20 million for new TV ads

by Ronny Kerr, April 19, 2010 | Comments

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New TV advertising startup gets Series C and a partnership with NDS Group

BlackArrow, provider of advertising solutions for new TV platforms, announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding. The round was led by NDS Group, with contributions from existing investors Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. As leader of the round, NDS has earned itself a place on BlackArrow's board ...

Groupon scores a whopping $135M led by DST

by Matt Bowman, April 19, 2010 | Comments (1)

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The monster Series C values social buying site at over $1.3 billion. Russian firm on a roll.

Update: Groupon CEO says the company has, in effect, been around longer than the official 17 months, so liquidity was something of an issue for early employees, and, in his case, taking the personal money problem off his mind will enable him to focus--see full comment after the original post. Social commerce service Groupon has raised a gargantuan $135 million ...

Canceled business trips due to volcanic #ash

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 18, 2010 | Comments

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British Airways, Virgin Atlantic likely to suffer 'most' from business trip cancellations

It's official. My business trip to London has just been canceled due to the dust cloud from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano. It's estimated that six million passengers will be affected. I'm one of them. And, for airlines, such as Virgin Atlantic, customers like me, who are traveling for business purposes, are likely to hurt their bottom line even more than leisure ...

GreenWizard raises $1.5M for green building

by Ronny Kerr, April 16, 2010 | Comments

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South Carolina company provides database for AEC community to search for green building products

Greenwizard, a new Web-based platform for architects, engineers, and contractors to pursue green building, has just raised a $1.5 million Series A led by Zygote Ventures. Last year, the San Rafael, CA-venture firm led an angel investment round for Greenwizard.The Charleston, SC-based startup provides a free Web-based interactive marketplace where architects and other personnel involved in green architecture can search ...

Twitter's big week

by Yield Software, April 16, 2010 | Comments

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New announcements abound at the chirp developer conference

Twitter is suddenly more all over the news than usual. So what’s all buzz? Turns out, lot’s of things. First, let’s start with the big event: today was the first day of Twitter’s inaugural developers’ conference called Chirp. This is a gathering of just under 100 geeks at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts who build applications that rely on ...

Ning exposes freemium's underbelly

by Matt Bowman, April 16, 2010 | Comments

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The platform is taking the axe to all free networks. Chris Anderson, author of "Free", responds.

By now you’ve probably read that Ning is ending all free networks, inviting them to pay or move on, and is cutting 40% of its staff. Rough Thursday. The company’s history makes for an interesting case study in the freemium business model. Initially, Ning was to be the network of networks in an ever-expanding universe of networks. It was to ...

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