Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman deserves credit for trying to play nice with Google, even appearing onstage at the Social Currency CrunchUp with John Hanke, a Google VP of Product Management. As expected the tension was palpable, as Hanke and Stoppelman discussed Google Places and the goliath’s heavy reliance on Yelp’s content.
One thing you can say about the Flickr team – there’s some fight in ‘em. They apparently were not super pleased with our coverage of their annual (and unofficial) Grant-Pattishall Award given each year to the Yahoo engineer who who breaks Flickr in the most spectacular way. I’m not sure why, I think the award is fun.
Steve Ballmer has admitted that Apple has sold more iPads than he’d have liked, as he defended the lack of a credible Windows 7 tablet alternative.
According to GetJar, its eponymous mobile app store is now seeing three million downloads per day. GetJar reiterated that its stats put it second only to Apple iTunes, with over 1 billion total downloads to date.
Washington - A bill that would legalize some forms of online
gambling in the U.S. has passed a vote in the U.S. House Committee on Financial
Services. Introduced by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chair of the committee,
the Internet Gambling Regulation and Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act
was approved by a 41-22 vote in the committee. Read the rest of this entry »
the UK High Court has ruled that the sale, import and advertising of R4 games cards is now illegal in the UK, effectively putting to bed a loophole that allowed pirated games to run on a Nintendo DS and DSi.