BitGou: Technology Report: At South by Southwest, fewer startups, more marketers and media

2013年3月12日星期二

Technology Report: At South by Southwest, fewer startups, more marketers and media

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03/11/2013

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At South by Southwest, fewer startups, more marketers and media

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Has "South-by" lost its direction?

Insight: On Facebook, app makers face a treacherous path

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as southern California's skies.

Icahn gets confidential look at Dell's books

(Reuters) - Dell Inc has agreed to give Carl Icahn a closer look at its books, less than a week after the activist investor joined a growing chorus of opposition to founder Michael Dell's plan to take the world's No. 3 personal computer maker private.

Cyber security a challenge to U.S.-China ties: White House aide

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cyber security has become a growing challenge to the economic relationship between China and the United States and Beijing should recognize the scope of the problem, White House national security adviser Tom Donilon said on Monday.

EA says SimCity server issues improve, not yet 'all-clear'

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Server problems that botched the launch of Electronic Arts Inc's new "SimCity" title last week and incensed gamers who could not access the game for days have improved but not yet been fully resolved, the company said.

Twitter, social media are fertile ground for stock hoaxes

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prominent short-seller David Einhorn raised eyebrows last month when he popped up on Twitter to disavow that he had tweeted about Herbalife Ltd.

Tech-savvy Newark Mayor Booker: Government flunking social media

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Cory Booker, the constantly tweeting mayor of Newark, New Jersey, who intends to run for the U.S. Senate, said on Sunday that the federal government needs to reinvent the often overly formal way it uses social media.

Publishers oppose Amazon's bid to gain Web names: WSJ

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, are opposing Amazon.com Inc's request to own new domain names, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Alibaba Group picks Jonathan Lu as next CEO

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba Group has chosen Jonathan Lu, its Chief Data Officer who has more than a decade of experience in executive roles, to lead China's largest e-commerce company as it prepares to launch an initial public offering.

Australia central bank says no information lost in cyber attacks

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's central bank confirmed on Monday it had been targeted by cyber attacks and that no data had been lost or systems compromised, but would not comment on a media report that a malware virus used in one attack was Chinese in origin.