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You Can’t Patch a Social Network
What makes social networks successful is precisely the thing that makes them vulnerable to hackers: Trusting and sharing with others, sometimes even strangers. Now that they’re under attack from worms and malware, operators are trying to patch security loopholes. But it’s hard to fix the DNA without altering the nature of the organism.
Facebook, MySpace and [...] |
Tech IPOs Return With Rackspace
After a long dry spell, technology initial public offerings took a small step towards a comeback as Rackspace Hosting, a San Antonio, Texas-based company, announced its IPO. The company that will trade on the NYSE under the ticker RAX is selling about 15 million shares at $12.50 each, in the process raising about $187.5 million [...] |
In a Down Economy, Angel Investors Change Course
Angel investors, rather than run from the lousy market, are merely adapting to it -- doing more follow-on investments, syndicating deals amongst multiple angels and, in some cases, investing greater amounts of money into a single startup so it can pay the bills during the dry spell for early-stage capital that they see lying ahead. |
Machines Can Ease the Olympics Translation Crunch
The Olympics is a boon to translators. Much of the reporting, interpretation and documentation for the massively international event is handled by humans, human translators with the right skills can be scarce. “Between some pairs of languages, there are very few people who are experts in both,” said Sanford Cohen, founder of message translation firm [...] |
Google’s AOL Investment a Loss
In a SEC filing, Google acknowledged that it might come out on the losing side of its $1 billion investment in AOL.
Based on our review, we believe our investment in AOL may be impaired… We will continue to review this investment for impairment in the future. There can be no assurance that impairment charges [...] |
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