Weekly Tech News for March 27, 2011
Internet Facebook is filing to acquire money transmitter licenses in the 47 states that require the documents for payment processing. Microsoft is adding 7.3 million users annually to Sharepoint. eBook [...]
Internet Facebook is filing to acquire money transmitter licenses in the 47 states that require the documents for payment processing. Microsoft is adding 7.3 million users annually to Sharepoint. eBook [...]
Industry Figures Global chip sales rose 45% from last year to $74.8B in Q2. 21 venture backed startups went public in H12010 raising $1.9B according to VentureDeal. Internet & Gaming [...]
Internet & Gaming Facebook launches open graph search product with data from partner sites, competing with Google. Additionally, 1M domains are now using Facebook Connect. Google Voice opens to the [...]
Industry 2010 IPOs have returned -3% ytd with an average 1st day pop of 4% while venture backed IPOs vastly outperformed their non-venture peers with a first day pop of [...]
Industry U.S. retail e-commerce sales estimates in Q1 are up 10 pct year over year, nearing $34 billion for the quarter, according to ComScore. YCombinator raises an $8.25M fund. The [...]
Internet Facebook exposes user status updates to the public. announces Facebook Instant Connect now on 100,000 domains begins testing offers as part of Facebook credits through partners TrialPay and Peanut [...]
Industry Semiconductor sales increased 58% in March. Q1 2010 sales were $69.2B compared to $43.7 in Q1 2009. Internet Zynga is rumored to plan to remove games [...]
Industry Visa acquired CyberSource for $2B. Cybersource processes 25% of e-commerce payments in the US. Internet Facebook made 4 key announcements at f8 last week Open Graph protocol replaces [...]
Industry The US PC market grew 20% year over year and Apple grew market share 34% to capture 8%. pastedGraphic.pdf Download this file Internet Last.fm [...]
Industry VC fundraising up 41% in Q1 to $4.1B across 34 funds. 76% of the funds raised went to multi-stage groups. Venture investments increased to $12.8B in Q1 up from [...]