Electronic Arts, the video game company, announced Monday that it had acquired Playfish, one maker of the social-network-based games that have become so popular this year. Games are becoming more lucrative as people get accustomed to buying things as ...
Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist. These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game ...
Elevation Partners, a private equity firm co-founded by Bono, the lead singer of U2, led another group of investors bidding on Skype, according to a person involved in the negotiations. Roger McNamee, another Elevation co-founder, who also co-founded ...
SAN FRANCISCO EBay plans to announce on Tuesday a deal to sell its Skype Internet calling division to a group of private investors, according to two people briefed on the company’s plans. The investment group is likely to include Andreessen Horowitz, a ...
SAN FRANCISCO You might think your password protects the confidential information stored on Web sites. But as Twitter executives discovered, that is a dangerous assumption. The Web was abuzz Wednesday after it was revealed that a hacker had exposed ...
Updated 2:30 p.m. with statements from Twitter and Google. Twitter, which tries to run a super-secret operation, is the victim of a attack by a hacker who has apparently exposed confidential corporate information. The hacker claims to have private ...
President Barack Obama’s recent speech in Cairo spoke of the clash of civilizations, religious intolerance, the stereotyping of enemies and the self-perpetuating habits of hate. He put his finger on the world’s pulse, in all of its tensions and terrors, ...
Four days a week, I go running along the “psychic highway.” That’s what the Erie Canal was called in the mid-19th century for its capacity to convey, by means of rumor and gossip, the radical ideas of the time. The end of slavery and the promotion of ...
Rep. Jeb Hensarling blamed the financial crisis on 'government policies ... that ultimately attempted to incent, cajole or mandate financial institutions into lending money to people to buy homes who ultimately could not afford to keep those homes.' An ...
If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer. A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal ...
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