Trailer for the upcoming documentary about the founders of the filesharing site the Pirate Bay.
The film will be released for free online at the premiere of a major film festival. Release date to be announced during Jan 2013.
Directed by Simon Klose
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Facebook’s Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed service terms that prompted howls of protest last week.
In a proposed class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court on Friday, a California Instagram user leveled breach of contract and other claims against the company. Read More
Google slashed the cumulative view counts on YouTube channels belonging to Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG, and RCA Records by more than 2 billion views Tuesday, a drastic winter cleanup that may be aimed at shutting down fake view count-building techniques employed by a community of rogue view count manipulators on the video-sharing site.
source: DailyDot
Expedia Inc. (EXPE) agreed to buy a majority stake in travel metasearch engine trivago for about EUR 477 million, expanding the Internet travel agent’s exposure in Europe.
The deal also increases consolidation in Expedia’s market following priceline.com Inc.’s (PCLN) $1.8 billion purchase agreement for travel metasearch company Kayak Software Corp. (KYAK) last month.
Expedia will acquire 61.6% of trivago for about EUR477 million, or roughly $632 million–including EUR434 million in cash and EUR43 million in Expedia stock.
Founded seven years ago, trivago grew into one of the largest travel sites in Europe and now conducts more than 100 million hotel searches annually, Expedia said. The company is expected to deliver about EUR100 million in revenue for 2012.
This is the idea and concept that came up with in the course “The future of media” at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 2012. The theme for the course was: “Future of magazines”.
Project group: Joel Arnkvist, Eva Olsson, Jens Muller, Havva Gocmenoglu.
Google has released the new Zeitgeist, its annual list of most popular searches and search trends throughout the year.
The top list for 2012 is as follows:
1. Whitney Houston
2. Gangnam Style
3. Hurricane Sandy
4. iPad 3
5. Diablo 3
6. Kate Middleton
7. Olympics 2012
8. Amanda Todd
9. Michael Clarke Duncan
10. BBB12
15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.
Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to the “Visiting Practitioner’s Program” at MIT.
source: THNKR
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, and Downtown Project have pledged $1 Million to Venture for America. During the next five years, Venture for America will send at least 100 of the country’s most talented and enterprising graduates to downtown Las Vegas to assist Tony Hsieh and Downtown Project in helping revitalize downtown Vegas. Downtown Project is a $350MM+ initiative to transform downtown Vegas that includes a $200 million investment in real estate, $50 million in local businesses, $50 million in tech start-ups, and $50 million in education, arts and culture.
The first SMS was sent as a Christmas greeting on December 3, 1992. Now we send 8 trillion text messages a year.
Neil Papworth, a software programmer from Reading, UK sent the first SMS (text message) in 1992.
“Since mobile phones didn’t yet have keyboards, I typed the message out on a PC. It read ‘Merry Christmas’ and I sent it to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone, who was enjoying his office Christmas party at the time,” said Papworth. Read More
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is officially the largest entertainment launch of the year for the fourth year in a row, selling a staggering $500 million plus in the first 24 hours
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. It’s expected to be released for Nintendo’s Wii U on November 18th.
source: CSM
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