Sunday, 12 December 2010

Irony Alert: Man Sues Winklevoss Twins, Says They Stole Company Stake From Him


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Cameron Winklevoss at Endless Summer Irony Alert: Man Sues Winklevoss Twins, Says They Stole Company Stake From Him

You've read the news everywhere: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are suing Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg again. The basic allegation remains the same. They say Zuckerberg unfairly cut them out of an ownership stake in Facebook.

Now, in an ironic turn, we've learned that there's another player in this drama who alleges that the Winklevoss brothers did a very similar thing to him.
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After Twitter's long-time product boss Jason Goldman announced Wednesday that he was leaving the company -- with no next job lined up, at least not publicly -- we wondered what was going on. What we've heard is that there is a major shift going on at Twitter, with the business side playing a more dominant role at the company at the expense of the product side.  Read »
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Wednesday, we released the SV 100, an annual list of the top people making waves in Silicon Valley's digital scene. The list is comprised primarily of VCs, senior executives, and founders. There are not many surprises on the list, but there are a bunch of entrepreneurs who are new to the Silicon Valley beat, and you need to meet them.  Read »
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Google first announced Chrome OS in September 2008, and on Tuesday the company revealed a few more tantalizing details, including the first prototype Chrome netbook, which will be shipping to reviewers in the next couple of weeks. But a lot of questions still remain unanswered.  Read »
The 10 Best Selling iPhone Apps of 2010

Apple released its list of the most popular iPhone and iPad apps of the year. Not surprisingly, all 10 of the best selling iPhone apps were games. We put together the list for you here.  Read »
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Mark Zuckerberg Agrees To Give Away The Majority Of His Wealth To Charity

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg joined a host of other billionaires who have pledged to give away the majority of their wealth to charity, the WSJ reports. In addition to Zuckerberg, AOL founder Steve Case and activist investor Carl Icahn just signed the "Giving Pledge."  Read »

Here's Yahoo's Answer To Apple's iAds

Apple's iAd has brought a lot of attention to mobile advertising, including the promise of bringing "emotional" advertising from television to the mobile handset. Yahoo is the latest big publisher to reach out and say, hey, we can do that, too. For context, with some 50 million monthly unique mobile users across its properties, Yahoo has substantial reach.  Read »

Apple Calls Flipboard "iPad App Of The Year"

Apple named Flipboard, the app that turns Twitter and Facebook into a magazine like experience, its "iPad App of the Year." This is huge news for the startup. It will likely see downloads explode in the next few days. From a higher level, it's also illustrative of how Apple thinks about the iPad.  Read »

Meet The Guy Behind Apple's "iPad App Of The Year"

Flipboard is a beautiful iPad app that looks at the content your friends are sharing on Twitter and Facebook and reformats it into a digital, interactive magazine. The consumer reaction to the app since its launch has been nothing short of completely nuts. How nuts? Cofounder and CEO Mike McCue tells us that before launching Flipboard, he made his engineers hook up double the amount of servers they thought would be necessary.  Read »

Meet Operation Payback: The Guys Shutting Down Visa And Mastercard In Defense of WikiLeaks

Anonymous is the online group that spun off online message board 4chan and is behind Operation Payback, the online attacks against the companies who shut off Wikileaks. The Economist has a great "interview" with them. Anonymous are so elusive because they're so decentralized.  Read »

Google Is Activating 300,000 Android Phones A Day -- Tough Luck, Doubters

Nope, Google's Android phone activation rate hasn't dropped or plateaued -- it's still accelerating. Google Android boss Andy Rubin tweeted Thursday that Google is activating 300,000 Android phones per day. That's up from 250,000 in October. And it's darned impressive.  Read »

Dutch Teenager Arrested For Pro-WikiLeaks DDoS Attacks

A 16 year-old Dutch boy has been arrested in the Netherlands for his part in revenge attacks on websites that crossed WikiLeaks, PC World reports. The teenager has already confessed to his involvement in the attacks on Visa's, MasterCard's, and PayPal's websites. All three companies cut WikiLeaks off to distance themselves from the organization's release of U.S. diplomatic cables.  Read »

Crazy: Analysts Are Predicting Minimal Verizon iPhone Sales

Analysts are always funny about Apple, but this is perhaps the weirdest call we've seen yet: several analysts are predicting that the Verizon iPhone will come as expected in 2011, but that it won't help Apple sell many more iPhones. Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports that Merrill Lynch is raising its iPhone sales estimate by just 6 million units for 2011 on the strength of the Verizon phone.  Read »


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