Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
Facebook Near $800 Million in 2009 Revenue
We’ve all seen the growth of Facebook, especially those that have seen our bandwidth (and in some cases productivity) in the office take a hit in recent years. Many also knew that the company became cash positive in 2009 thanks to a blog post by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in September. Would you have expected the company to have revenues [...]
Location based game developer Booyah raises $20M
Location based games continue to be a favorite of the venture funding. The company behind the location-based game MyTown, Booyah Inc., recently closed a $20 million round of financing led by Accel Partners, with existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures also participating in the round. MyTown is a Monopoly-like [...]
Friday Blurbs…. 26th of March
Netflix does Wii - According to Jessie Becker, a spokes person for Netflix, said in a blog posting on the site. Netflix is getting ready for the launch of streaming to Wii. On Thursday Netflix started sending out instant streaming discs for the Wii to some of our Netflix members. This will allow customers to watch movies and TV episodes from [...]
Friday Blurbs…..
Cisco's New Router: Trouble for Hollywood - Time: Cisco's CRS-3 router made a bit of a splash when it was announced on March 9, but the power of this new device hasn't yet sunk in. Consider: The CRS-3, a network routing system, is able to stream every film ever made, from Hollywood to Bombay, in under four minutes. That's right — the whole [...]
Finding Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere!!!
Just an observation, but talk about being on the grid, Twitter notes, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, and a number of other social networks, including Facebook , have added or will add shortly location enabled services. Now I can be found by just about anyone, at anytime, in just about anyplace. Personally, to me it is a bit over [...]
Location’s Social Paradox
There’s an absolute eruption of activity around location-based services right now. Companies are getting funded left and right, new ones are popping up daily, and certain ones are seemingly starting to take off. But for a number of them, there’s a very big wall looming. And the more popular they get, the quicker they’ll reach it. Continue [...]
Location, Location, Location: 5 Big Predictions for 2010
Predictions from Mashable ----------------------------------------- GPS-aware mobile devices have become commonplace, which means connecting the dots between what you’re doing and where you’re doing it is easier than ever. In 2009, location-sharing applications finally emerged in user-friendly formats, altering the way we think about [...]
