Newburyport, Mass. - Where Inc., a location-based mobile
advertising company, announced on Monday that it has acquired LocalGinger, a provider
of group-buying services in local markets. Read the rest of this entry »
If the new Ping sidebar that was launched today as a part of iTunes 10.0.1 looks familiar, perhaps it’s because you’ve been using the iLike Sidebar — an iTunes (and Windows Media Player) plug-in that does pretty much the same thing. We know at least one person finds the two very similar: Ali Partovi, the co-founder of iLike.
We’ve all had a pretty long week dealing with all this, for lack of a better term, AngelGate stuff. For the people involved, me included, it hasn’t been much fun.
Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook was down or unreachable for
many users yesterday for around 2.5 hours, the company’s worst outage in over
four years, which it blamed on "an unfortunate handling of an error
condition." "The way to stop the feedback cycle was quite painful –
we had to stop all traffic to this database cluster, which meant turning off
the site. Once the databases had recovered and the root cause had been fixed,
we slowly allowed more people back onto the site," the company wrote in a
blog post. Read the rest of this entry »
According toThe Media Note, Saudi Information and Culture Ministry spokesman Abdul Rahman Al-Hazza announced last night Saudi time that all Saudi Arabian web publishers and online media, including blogs and forums, will need to be officially registered with the government.
