Roundup: Google calls out quitters, Craigslist’s feelings are hurt and more
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Google knows you’re quitting before you do — In the wake of recent brain drain, the search giant has devised an algorithm that combines employee reviews, promotion histories, pay and other factors to predict which employees are most likely to leave. The WSJ… Continue Reading
Electronics Arts reports loss, will lay off more than 500 workers
Electronic Arts reported a big loss today and said it would lay off 6 percent of its 9,000-person work force, or roughly 540 people.
The cutbacks come after a huge increase in the employment rolls thanks to acquisitions and EA’s focus on making original games built… Continue Reading
Content provider Booyah scores $4.5M from Kleiner Perkins
Mobile and web content producer Booyah announced today that it received $4.5 million from Kleiner Perkins. The two seem like a good match, considering the company’s job listings for iPhone engineers and the investor’s special iPhone developers fund.
The Silicon Valley-based startup remains in stealth mode,… Continue Reading
Roundup: More YouTube user data fallout, MacBook Air SSD prices fall and more
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More fallout from the YouTube/Viacom lawsuit — After a judge ruled that Google wouldn’t have to reveal YouTube’s source code but would have to open its user data for all to see, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wrote a post condemning the decision… Continue Reading
Electronic Arts expands its casual game line-up
Electronic Arts is going after the casual consumer on multiple fronts. It offers Pogo.com online and EA Mobile for cell phone users (which will also expand to Apple’s iPod beginning July 7). Now EA Casual and Entertainment is unveiling the first offerings from the Hasbro… Continue Reading
Another day, another billion-dollar Blizzard franchise
Blizzard Entertainment had a lot of buzz about its newest game leading up to its European event at the Porte de Versailles event center in Paris. And fans weren’t disappointed with the announcement of its new Diablo III computer game.
That might make a lot of… Continue Reading
Don’t expect to see many PC games at upcoming E3 game show
As the video game industry gears up for its annual E3 conference in July, the reality is setting in that the one-time entertainment extravaganza has become narrowly focused on console games, with very little room for PC games.
Even Microsoft and Intel, the champions of the… Continue Reading
You say you want a revolution? How about The Beatles in video games?
When you think about the 21st century digital lifestyle, The Beatles aren’t exactly the name that first jumps out at you. After all, the group still doesn’t have its music catalog for sale in any digital format.
But now, the biggest rock band of all time… Continue Reading
Roundup: Veoh to get ABC content, the shrinking venture capital industry and more
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Veoh to get ABC content, kind of — ABC, the television network that has been the slowest and stingiest in making its content available online, has struck a deal with video site Veoh that seems, well, behind-the-times and stingy. Veoh will index ABC’s… Continue Reading
Have Microsoft and Activision spilled their E3 secrets?
Out on the web, gamers are calling it the super leak . Now a bunch of rumors are circulating about what Microsoft and Activision plan to announce at the upcoming E3 conference in July. Over the weekend, a marketing research firm called Intellisponse allowed its… Continue Reading
Roundup: Another Google exec leaves for Facebook, Mosso adds more storage to the cloud, and more
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Another Google exec heads to Facebook – Elliot Schrage, Google’s vice president of global communications and public affairs will become the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, BoomTown’s Kara Swisher has learned. “This is a really important role for… Continue Reading