Activision to Buy Back Most of Vivendi’s Controlling Stake
Activision Blizzard Inc. said it has reached an agreement to buy back nearly $6 billion worth of Vivendi SA’s holding in the company, ending months of negotiations over the fate of the videogame giant....
View ArticleQOTD: The Franzen Project
Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. - From a list of the many things Jonathan Franzen hates
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Nasdaq, J.C. Penney, Others in Hacking Case, Were “Targets of Opportunity”
Beginning in 2005 and ending last summer, the computer systems of Nasdaq, OMX Group, J.C. Penney Co., Carrefour SA and around a dozen other companies were breached by hackers, resulting in the loss of...
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Yandex Co-Founder on Life Support
The co-founder and technical guru behind Yandex NV, Russia’s largest Internet search engine, is in a coma with no signs of brain activity, the company’s chief executive said Thursday. Ilya Segalovich,...
View ArticleSecure Email Service
This wasn’t about one person. This was about the lengths our government was willing to go to conduct Internet surveillance on one person. - Lavabit founder Ladar Levison, who shut down his service...
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Board Meetings Are a Waste of Time at the Seed Stage
Image copyright Qpic-Images Satya Patel recently wrote a post titled “The Value of a Board at the Seed Stage.” I love the Homebrew guys and would be thrilled to have them as a co-investor in my deals,...
View ArticleHTC, Qualcomm Work on Redesigning Smartphone Chip
Taiwan’s HTC Corp. is working with Qualcomm Inc. on ways to alter a component for its flagship One smartphone and other new devices, after a preliminary U.S. court win by Finnish rival Nokia Corp....
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How to Escape the Dark Valley of Your Hadoop Journey
It happens to the best of us. You know your business is bursting with useful data, and you’ve only begun to scratch the surface. So you strike out to build an analytical platform, using all the great...
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