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Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate — “While the bust led to the...
The New York Times yesterday published a news story on the large profits being made in virtual goods without referring to the controversies that have rocked the sector this week. In the article: Virtual Goods Start Bringing...
Many are referring as this to Droid Day, the moment when Verizon Wireless ( NYSE: VZ ) starts selling the Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Droid, perhaps the most highly anticipated Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Android phone to date. So, did...
PC World - It had to happen eventually. The launch of Motorola's Droid makes room for a new kind of fanboy in the tech world: The Droid fanboy, armed at last with a phone that fits with any anti-iPhone lifestyle.
In a recent PRNewser poll , we asked, "Which Tactic Did You Employ the Last Time You Released Big News?" The results: "Posted on a wire and pitched the release," and "Exclusive with one publication" both came in dead even at...
So the inevitable "offers are scams" story finally blew on to the scene last week at the Virtual Goods Summit when TechCrunch's Michael Arrington attacked OfferPal's Anu Shukla for having misleading offers (e.g. sign up for...
"I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away." So said Mark Pincus, CEO and founder of Zynga , the company behind social games like Mafia Wars and Farmville. It's...
The conference, organized by 1938 Media in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood today, banned liveblogging and tweeting. Attendees, according to Internet Evolution, the "audience" there was actually an audience. No one "is Tweeting...
Facebook games — Mafia Wars, FarmVille, Restaurant City — have become surprisingly effective at diverting timewasters among the social networking crowd. But now accusations have surfaced that the games can lead some more...
Business Insider writes the CrunchPad from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington may have been delayed due to higher-than-expected production costs. Some sources even claim the project may have been shelved indefinitely....
