July 31, 2010
Grammy award winning artist Chamillionaire (a.k.a Hakeem Seriki) has become a regular at tech conferences, perhaps because the hustle and flow culture of the rap business and the hustle and flow culture of the tech business are surprisingly similar. His stories of struggles between artists and music labels are resonant to anyone who’s experienced the relationship intricacies of startups and VCs
July 31, 2010
Imagine you were a robot who only knew how to describe the world in four ways: self, other, time, and object. Now imagine you were struck by a bolt of lightning and found your robot brain aware of a whole new column in the spreadsheet…Place
July 30, 2010
Three years after paying $225 million to buy online ad company Allyes , Chinese ad firm Focus Media is selling a majority stake in the company, which bills itself as China’s “largest online media service provider,” to PE firm Silver Lake. Silver Lake is paying $124 million to Focus Media ( NSDQ: FMCN ) for a 62 percent stake in Allyes. In a release , Focus Media says that selling the stake will let it concentrate on its core businesses, which include an in-store ad network and movie theater ad network.
July 30, 2010
French gaming site PS3Gen has apparently discovered the full character lineup for Capcom’s upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of the Two Worlds. According to their site, the lineup was hidden amongst the HTML source code on Capcom’s Japanese website, although since the time any traces of it has been removed.
July 30, 2010
I follow the hashtag #BWE10 on Twitter to keep my finger on the pulse of what people are saying about BlogWorld. Sadly, it seems like a number of people are making the decision not to come because they don’t have the money for it. I understand that completely
