Roundup: Mac sales slow?, IE security flaw, and more
Mac computer sales slow — While overall PC sales rose by two percent last month, Mac sales fell by one percent, research firm NPD Group says. Others have been quick to point out flaws in this calculation, though.
Internet Explorer security flaw found — Experts are urging users to move to other browsers until Microsoft gets a fix in place.
Tom Cole leaves Trinity Ventures to start new company — The latest venture capitalist to leave the industry, he’ll be starting and running an online marketing and lead generation company.
Time Warner buys 20 percent of video game maker Eidos — U.K.-based Eidos is best known for titles like Tomb Raider.
Gartner: More countries for outsourcing — The research company has put together a list of the top 30 countries for sending jobs to.
ClearMyRecord helps criminals get a clean slate — The company tells you what paperwork to file, where — “the Turbo Tax for getting your record cleared.”
Micromessaging company Pownce just completely closed down — Hopefully you got your data out before then.
Olympian Michael Phelps to star in swimming video game — A couple more details here.
New details on peer-to-peer service BitTorrent’s down round — Investors took more than $10 million out of the company’s bank account and cut the valuation from $177 million to $35 million, TechCrunch reports.
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About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.
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