Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Finding out about a musician or a show has always been a three-, four- or even five-site process for me. First I’ll hit pollstar.com and see what shows are in the area on a given day. Scrolling through lists of venues and artists, I’ll see something like “BattleHooch” and follow the link to their home page. This page may (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Video startup Vidly is holding true to its promise to expand beyond Twitter with a new tool called Vidly Express, an easy way to add video comments to any blog.The San Francisco company says publishers just add some code to their site, and the code creates a button for video replies next to every post. Vidly Express also in (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Klausner Technologies Inc. on Monday said it is suing Blackberry maker Research in Motion and Motorola , claiming the two companies infringed on its visual voicemail patent. The suits were in response to Research in Motion's release of the new 3GBlackBerry Bold 9700 mobile phones and the rele (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Despite declines to pc, server, and printer sales, HP had nice quarter, thanks to solid cost-cutting and profits from the tech services division, the AP reports.SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s profit jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter, helped by cost-cutting and better results from its technology services di (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Hewlett-Packard on Monday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $2.4 billion, or 99 cents a share, compared with a profit of $2.1 billion, or 84 cents a share, for the year-earlier period. Revenue was $30.8 billion, down from $33.6 billion for the same quarter the previous year. Adjusted (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - If news publishers with the heft of News Corp. start seeking out alternatives to Google Inc.'s online search index, it could have an intangible, but potentially significant impact on the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant.
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VentureBeat:
Zynga said today it has crossed more than 100 million unique monthly users for its social games on Facebook.Thanks to the popularity of its casual Facebook games such as FarmVille, which has more than 65 million players, the San Francisco company has become the biggest developer on Facebook and the leading company in the em (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Backflip Studios has managed to defy the odds on the iPhone by coming up with hit games that have become big hits over and over.The Boulder, Colo.-based game studio has just six employees and has been around only seven months. But they have scored big with multiple hits on the iPhone as well as a business model that generat (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks posted gains across the board early Monday as the broader market also advanced. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 1.2% at the opening bell, rising to 2,172. The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index was also up 1.2%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index gained 1.5%. Gain (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Facebook reaches so many people now that big brands are trying to figure out how to reach its audience. Intel is using social media firm Sprout to launch a different kind of marketing campaign today.In the Sprout created campaign, consumers sign up to be fans of Intel’s latest page on Facebook. The more people sign up to be (Read More)
TechCrunch:
ZURB, a well-regarded interaction design and strategy firm in the San Francisco Bay Area that has in the past done work for eBay, Facebook, Yahoo, Zazzle and many other familiar names, regularly publishes insightful design deconstruction posts for homepages of some of the most popular websites on the net, using its very own (Read More)
TechCrunch:
“Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” – Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook.Today, at our RealTime CrunchUp event in San Francisco, Buchheit and Threadsy founder Rob Goldman sat down for a chat with our o (Read More)
Mashable!:
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Fido Factor Quick Pitch: Fido Factor is a dog-specific local search a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it.The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and includes features like expanding links and photos, the ability to “mute” people who you want to stop (Read More)