David van Sunder
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Posts by David van Sunder
Google Invests $200M in Farmville? Is Search Over?
July 11, 2010 - 9:34 pm
Tags: Business, Gaming, Investments, Social Networks
Posted in Business, Technology | 1 comment
According to ReadWriteWeb, Google has invested over $100 million and possibly as much as $200 million in Zynga, bringing the total investment in Zynga to somewhere around half a billion dollars. You might not know the name Zynga, but if you spend any time on Facebook, you have probably heard of some of the games [...]
AT&T Smothers Mobile Web Before It Grows Up
June 3, 2010 - 10:58 am
Tags: AT&T, iPhone, Mobile Web
Posted in Technology | 5 comments
Yesterday, AT&T announced that it was changing its iPhone & iPad data plans. That’s right, the $30/month unlimited data plan on the iPhone & iPad and $15/month 250MB plan on the iPad will no longer be options for people getting new plans or changing their plans effective June 7. In their place, AT&T will offer [...]
Blippy Breach Puts Credit Cards Numbers on Google
April 23, 2010 - 8:22 pm
Tags: Blippy, Money, Social Networks
Posted in Business, Technology | 5 comments
Not too worried about how you share your personal information online? Well, VentureBeat has reported on an incident that should make you rethink your position. Blippy, the purchase sharing social site that I covered in January, has had a security breach. As a result, they exposed the credit card numbers of some of their users [...]
KnowEm: Do You Control Your Name?
March 16, 2010 - 11:52 pm
Tags: Branding, Business, Social Media, Social Networks, Technology
Posted in Business | 1 comment
People constantly talk about how important a name is to a business. They usually follow that declaration up by emphasizing that a good domain name is just as important. What people often forget is how important it is to register the name of your business on all the major social media sites. Now some of [...]
DoGooders DoEvil?
March 7, 2010 - 11:56 pm
Tags: Advertising, Business, New Media, Plugins, Technology
Posted in Business | 1 comment
DoGood Headquarters recently released a plugin for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari that replaces ads on websites with “green related initiatives, philanthropic calls for action and health and wellness ideas.” Before I get critical of this new service, because I will, I just want to say that I sympathize with part of what they are [...]
