Amazon Instant Video App Lands on Xbox 360
Posted by PCWorld
For users of Amazon's Prime Instant Video service, the wait for game console support is over[...]
Continue ReadingYandex.Factory Seed Funding Bears Fruit: SocialMart Launches Social Shopping With Yandex.Market
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It’s not a given that a leader in search can successfully pivot into other areas like social media — just ask Google — but a new service launching in Russia today, from that country’s search leader Yandex, shows one route a company with a lot of smarts can take to make sure they remain a central player in the social game. Today sees the launch of SocialMart, a social shopping startup financed by Yandex (through its seed-funding program Yandex.Factory), and powered by Yandex (via Yandex.Market), but is not Yandex itself.
Both Yandex and SocialMart are banking on the fact that the rising popularity of ecommerce in Russia is inevitably going to cross over with the equall[...]
Continue ReadingBoth Yandex and SocialMart are banking on the fact that the rising popularity of ecommerce in Russia is inevitably going to cross over with the equall[...]
It’ll Be A Miracle If The Facebook Phone Doesn’t Suck
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Here we go again: Facebook is apparently trying for the third time to get its phone project off the ground — snatching up iOS design and engineering talent left and right Nick Bilton is hearing.
We’re hearing (and seeing) similar regarding iOS talent, but with one caveat: Word on the street is that few mobile design whizzes actually want to work at Facebook, but everyone has their price, and post-IPO Mark Zuckerberg is willing to pay that price, whatever it is.
Does Facebook need a phone? Whatever the answer to that question is, the more important item is that it THINKS it needs a phone, most likely because it’s still lacking a clear mobile strategy with regards to revenue.[...]
Continue ReadingWe’re hearing (and seeing) similar regarding iOS talent, but with one caveat: Word on the street is that few mobile design whizzes actually want to work at Facebook, but everyone has their price, and post-IPO Mark Zuckerberg is willing to pay that price, whatever it is.
Does Facebook need a phone? Whatever the answer to that question is, the more important item is that it THINKS it needs a phone, most likely because it’s still lacking a clear mobile strategy with regards to revenue.[...]
Game pioneer Trip Hawkins was forming a “rebel alliance” among indie game developers (exclusive)
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Trip Hawkins, who resigned on Sunday as chief executive of mobile and social game maker Digital Chocolate, was trying to form an alliance dubbed FreeGameLeaders to generate free traffic for browser-based games. It was like the “rebel alliance” fighting against the evil empire in Star Wars.
The alliance was a cross-promotion network aimed at helping smaller independent developers, including his own company, in an age dominated by big publishers such as Zynga on Facebook and Electronic Arts on mobile. The idea was to publish games directly to the web and set up a nonprofit alliance to promote traffic without bias or corporate overseer fees.
“Indie developers today need a dura[...]
Continue ReadingThe alliance was a cross-promotion network aimed at helping smaller independent developers, including his own company, in an age dominated by big publishers such as Zynga on Facebook and Electronic Arts on mobile. The idea was to publish games directly to the web and set up a nonprofit alliance to promote traffic without bias or corporate overseer fees.
“Indie developers today need a dura[...]
Silicon Valley, you’re going to be seeing a lot more of this Hollywood “nightmare”
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Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel has a temper. The tech industry better get used to it, because he’s looking north toward Silicon Valley.
Emanuel has built a respected and feared reputation as one of the leading power brokers in Hollywood. The head of the William Morris Endeavor agency, he’s the inspiration for the foul-mouthed, quick-to-anger agent in HBO’s “Entourage.” And when he spoke to a crowd of technorati at the 10th annual All Things Digital conference last night in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., he didn’t disappoint.
Within minutes he was describing the technology as mere “pipes,” a taboo point of view that most in the tech industry wo[...]
Continue ReadingEmanuel has built a respected and feared reputation as one of the leading power brokers in Hollywood. The head of the William Morris Endeavor agency, he’s the inspiration for the foul-mouthed, quick-to-anger agent in HBO’s “Entourage.” And when he spoke to a crowd of technorati at the 10th annual All Things Digital conference last night in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., he didn’t disappoint.
Within minutes he was describing the technology as mere “pipes,” a taboo point of view that most in the tech industry wo[...]
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