Category: Technology
Verizon’s Redbox service: more Netflix than TV Everywhere
Gotland Power Gotland. Notice the wind turbines in the distance. I count 8. I have often wondered why the wind turbines have only three blades. Why not 5 or 7 or 2? Verizon’s Redbox service: more Netflix than TV Everywhere Details of the new venture are still hard to come by. But the new streaming [...]
Think before you tweet, civil servants told
Think before you tweet, civil servants told New social media guidance issued today said that while civil servants were free to use sites such as Twitter and Facebook in “their own time”, there was a “need to be mindful of your duties not to disclose official information without authority, and not to take part in [...]
Pinterest investment catapults site to $1.5bn valuation
Pinterest investment catapults site to .5bn valuation The rapidly-growing social network, which allows users to collect pictures, articles and other snippets on a virtual pinboard which they can then share with friends, was valued at $ 200m just seven month ago when it last raised investment. Pinterest’s latest funding round was led by Rakuten, a [...]
Place your orders: Facebook IPO shares set at $38
Place your orders: Facebook IPO shares set at No more need for price speculation, folks. Facebook just put out amendment S-1 filing number 8, which sets its IPO price at $ 38.00 a share. Get your checkbooks ready. Facebook will debut on NASDAQ on Friday, as expected, under the ticker symbol FB. According to the [...]
Facebook valued at $104bn on stock market debut
Facebook valued at 4bn on stock market debut The company, which was founded by 28-year old Mark Zuckerberg from his dorm room at Harvard University, raised more than $ 16bn in the process, marking the second biggest initial public offering there has even been. Only Visa’s was larger. “It indicates that in their minds Facebook [...]