Posts tagged Internet Company
Chinese mobile Internet firm buys game maker for $80M
Dec 15th
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Beijing-based mobile Internet company KongZhong said today it is buying Shanghai Dacheng Network for $80 million.
Shanghai Dacheng Network is a developer of 3-D massively multiplayer online (MMO) games where thousands of people play together in online virtual worlds. The transaction shows that online gaming, on its way to $3.8 billion in revenues in [...]
Facebook trying to trick its users?
Dec 14th
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Last week, giant social network company Facebook rolled out an overhaul of its privacy settings and VentureBeat reporter Kim-Mai Cutler dubbed Facebook “the only place where a user can control how narrowly or broadly they want to share their interests and life.” That’s certainly part of Facebook’s appeal.
Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan, [...]
Facebook “trying to trick their users,” says Calacanis
Dec 14th
Last week, Brobdingnagian social network company Facebook rolled out an overhaul of its privacy settings. VentureBeat reporter Kim-Mai Cutler dubbed Facebook “the only place where a user can control how narrowly or broadly they want to share their interests and life.” That’s certainly part of Facebook’s appeal.
Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan, however, dubbed the [...]
Facebook “trying to trick their users,” says Calacanis
Dec 14th
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Last week, Brobdingnagian social network company Facebook rolled out an overhaul of its privacy settings. VentureBeat reporter Kim-Mai Cutler dubbed Facebook “the only place where a user can control how narrowly or broadly they want to share their interests and life.” That’s certainly part of Facebook’s appeal.
Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan, however, [...]
Russian investment firm DST merges email and online game companies
Dec 1st
Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment group that invested in Facebook this year, has merged an email portal with an online game developer to try to create an Internet powerhouse.
Moscow-based DST said today that it merged its communication portal, Mail.ru, the biggest provider of free email services for Russian-speaking countries, with Russian online game firm [...]
