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You know those terrible corporate team-building exercises? Like the one where you stand in front of a co-worker, close your eyes and fall backwards, trusting that said co-worker will catch you?
At Google (GOOG), they prefer playing pirates.
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The SC World Congress brings together the top minds in the IT security industry. A new addition this year: the Security Innovators Throwdown, a competition where leading startups present their goals for their newly developed technologies before an…
One big reason? Social games maker Zynga.
Making Facebook games like FarmVille and Texas Hold’em and then selling its users virtual goods to help them advance in the games, Zynga is pulling revenues over $500,000 per day, All Facebook reports.
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Needed: Smart people who can write. Our interns research, write, copy-edit, produce features, and help break shocking and useful news (among other tasks). Journalism background required, including copy-editing skills; light HTML and Photoshop experience preferred.
Apple said today that iPhone and iPod touch users have now downloaded 2 billion apps from the App Store. The store now features 85,000 apps, and with 125,000 total developers in the program, many more are on the way.
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Intuit’s Quickbooks gets an app store [VentureBeat]Sprint Nextel’s latest pitch isn’t a warm and fuzzy message from CEO Dan Hesse, but a series of dorky music videos featuring a guy who looks like a younger John C. Reilly.
In these songs, published on a new Sprint site, he sings about the evils of Sprint’s rivals Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, sometimes with a female companion.
We can’t see how they’d get anyone to switch, but we’re probably not their target audience. And at least they’re at least not as unbearable as Microsoft’s Windows…
Media companies are struggling in the age of the Internet, and it’s exposing the myth of the “Mogul,” says Jonathan Knee, co-author of “The Curse of The Mogul: What’s Wrong With the World’s Leading Media Companies.”
From 1995 to 2005, the stocks of Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), Time Warner (TWX), and News Corp. (NWS) were up 2.5%, while the S&P rose by 9%.
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Here’s the first video ad from Yahoo’s new $100 million “It’s Y!ou” ad campaign, launched at a big press event in New York last week. A spokesperson tells us Yahoo (YHOO) posted the clip “on Yahoo! video, YouTube, Facebook and other sites, and will soon air a version on TV.”
Mobile ad network AdMob and iPhone app publisher Tapulous are making their relationship closer. The companies have signed an exclusive deal, so that AdMob is the only ad network Tapulous will use for display ads in its incredibly popular music game “Tap Tap Revenge.”
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