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The Pirate Bay Is Back, And An Anonymous Defector Claims Responsibility For The DDoS Attack
BY: Jason RowleyThe Pirate Bay, one of the internet’s largest torrent sites and one of its most vocal advocates for intellectual property reform, fell prey to a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack yesterday. Representatives from The Pirate Bay proudly announced on their Facebook page that TPB is “back in full effect”, and, indeed, the website is up and in good working order.
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Torrent Site “The Pirate Bay” Taken Down By Mysterious DDoS Attack
BY: Jason RowleyAnyone who’s ever visited The Pirate Bay (or “TPBâ€) knows that the site experiences occasional outages that can last for several hours
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WordPress Gets Its Own App Store, Sort Of
BY: Jason RowleyWordpress App Store combines all of this into one, seamless experience that doesn’t require the user to ever leave the WordPress dashboard.
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Facebook “Acquihires” Photo-Sharing Site Lightbox To Bolster Its Mobile Team
BY: Jason RowleyLightbox, the rather beautiful photo sharing startup, announced on its company blog that the team will be joining Facebook. It indicated that it will work with the Facebook mobile team to improve user experience.
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All Eyes Turn To Wall Street Hours Before Facebook Begins Trading At 11:00 EST
BY: Jason RowleyCall it what you want to call it: a baptism by fire, tech’s gauntlet throw-down in the world of Wall Street, or — as most call it — an initial public offering. Technologists and startup founders, Wall Street analysts, investment bankers and (lest we forget) the venture capitalists, they wait on Facebook’s impending IPO with [...]
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Facebook Updates Its Mobile App On All Platforms Just Days Ahead Of IPO
BY: Jason RowleyThis week, Facebook quietly unrolled a new look for its iOS, Android, and mobile web apps which does a better job of bringing the crisp, image-focused look and feel of Faceboook’s Timeline UI to mobile users’ News Feeds.
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[Deveoping Story] Mark Zuckerberg To Ring Opening Bell From Facebook HQ On IPO Day
BY: Jason RowleyCOME FACEBOOK‘S IPO DAY — WHICH IS STILL TO BE DETERMINED — CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG WILL BE RINGING THE OPENING BELL VIA REMOTE LINK FROM FACEBOOK’S 1601 WILLOW ROAD, MENLO PARK CAMPUS.
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Facebook Experimenting With Paid “Sponsored Stories For People”
BY: Jason RowleyFacebook is experimenting with a feature that lets users bump their stories to the top of their friends’ news feeds for $2. Would you pay for this? Should you?
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Facebook Quietly Announces Its Very Own App Marketplace
BY: Jason RowleyFacebook says its App Center will offer new analytics features, paid canvas applications and a new way for developers to get more users for their social apps.
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PR And VCs Behaving Badly, or How And Why I Became A Shill For Zynga’s “Draw Something” On Japanese Television
BY: Jason RowleyPics or it didn’t happen, right? Well… it happened. That’s a picture of me being interviewed by reporters from Japanese television station TV Asahi when I was in Tokyo a little over a week ago. We were walking out of the subway when the gentleman in the purple/magenta hoodie and chinos approached me and asked [...]
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Evernote To Raise $50-100 Million Series E At $1 Billion+ Valuation
BY: Jason RowleyCloud-based note storage app Evernote will raise a $50-100 million Series E round. Meritech is leading the fundraising round
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Word On The (Wall) Street: Facebook Is Shooting For A May 17th IPO Date
BY: Jason RowleyIf the grapevine is to be trusted, Facebook plans to offer $5 billion in stock on May 17th at a roughly $100 billion valuation as soon as the company shores up some paperwork (including documents related to its recent acquisition of Instagram) with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is in line with earlier reports [...]
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