Featured Video
api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,videoStillURL,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128
Trending Tags
Recent Posts In News
News Byte
Next Up to Investigate Google’s Competitive Practices: Canada
Here’s some late-on-a-Friday regulatory news for you: Canada’s Competition Bureau will investigate Google’s Canadian business operations, according to the Financial Post. Google confirmed the investigation, while Canada declined comment. Earlier this year, Google was largely cleared in a U.S. antitrust examination, and it is currently testing remedies in Europe.
Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr
It’s (nearly) done.
Voices
DirecTV Consider Bid for Hulu
DirecTV is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter.Time Machine! Tumblr’s David Karp in 2007, Age 21.
Back when he was 21, had 75,000 users and was raising $750,000.
Tableau and Marketo Create Whopping Piles of Money With IPO Debuts
NEA’s $29 million stake in Tableau is now worth $955 million and change.
Amazon Kills Zombies, Keeps John Goodman as It Plans First Season of Web Series
Amazon starts ordering its first set of TV series. It says you helped them decide.
News Byte
April Was a Loser for Videogame Industry
April was a cruel month indeed for the videogame industry. Sales of gaming hardware, software and accessories in the U.S. for the month peaked at $495.2 million, according to sales data from research firm NPD, down 25 percent from the same period in 2012. Retail software sales declined 17 percent year over year to $254.3 million. Hardware sales plummeted 42 percent from the year prior to $109.5 million. The top console for the month? Microsoft’s Xbox 360, though it sold just 130,000 units in April, down 45 percent from a year earlier.Voices
Tesla Has a Fresh $1 Billion — And Lots of Ways to Spend It
Tesla Motors Inc. just raised about $1 billion in new capital, riding a remarkable burst of investor exuberance. New Tesla shareholders will now get to see just how fast the auto business gobbles up money.News Byte
NYT Digital Head Joins EA Board of Directors
Game giant Electronic Arts announced Friday that Denise F. Warren, head of digital products and services at the New York Times, will join its board of directors. Warren replaces outgoing board member Greg Maffei, who sat as a director for a decade (his departure, according to EA, is due to his commitments with Liberty Media, where he is CEO). Before taking over digital products, Warren was the NYT media group’s general manager and chief advertising officer.This High-Tech Backpack Is Mapping the Remotest Corners for Google (Video)
Google uses a 42-pound backpack with 15 cameras to capture areas its picture-taking cars can’t go.
