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Peter Kafka in News on June 5, 2011 at 5:54 pm PT
Evan Harrison, who left his post running digital for Clear Channel Radio in March, has a new job. He’s now chief creative officer at Van Wagner, the privately held billboard giant. Harrison is best known in the media industry for his expertise in music — prior to Clear Channel, he had built up AOL’s music business — and Van Wagner doesn’t have any obvious connection to that industry. But Van Wagner says Harrison’s “digital expertise will lead the company in new directions”.
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Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 5, 2011 at 10:18 am PT
Nintendo said Sunday that a server for its U.S. unit’s web site had been hacked into but that no company or customer information was compromised, marking the first time the Japanese gaming giant has been targeted in widespread global hacking attacks. The hacker group LulzSec, which has recently been harassing Sony, on Friday posted a file it said was taken from one of Nintendo’s server.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 4 at 1:55 pm PT
The deal that chipmaker Nvidia struck with Microsoft in 2000 says little if anything about the state of the company today, except for one thing: We now know why no one has ever tried to acquire it.
Kara Swisher in D9 on June 4 at 12:01 pm PT
As we have in the past,
AllThingsD.com will be posting the videos of all the onstage interviews from the ninth
D: All Things Digital conference, which was held last week.
The first is one I did with Jack Ma, the CEO and Co-founder of the Alibaba Group, the giant Chinese online commerce company.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 4 at 8:06 am PT
Hackers hit Sony Web sites on multiple fronts again, and then they start taunting the FBI and ask for donations to help them keep up their efforts. Suddenly it feels like 1996 all over again.
Ina Fried in Mobile on June 4 at 6:00 am PT
The iPhone and Android are doing great, while the BlackBerry and Windows Phone have some work to do, the AT&T executive tells AllThingsD’s Ina Fried.
Ina Fried in News on June 3 at 3:05 pm PT
Google said on Friday that, following an outcry from users, it will develop a paid version of its translation tool for outside services to use, instead of killing third-party access entirely.
Liz Gannes in News on June 3 at 2:43 pm PT
Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya, who leads the company’s growth, mobile and international efforts, will leave to start a venture capital firm.
Thomas Catan, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 3 at 2:02 pm PT
The Justice Department is scrutinizing likely bidders for a giant trove of patents being sold this month by the bankrupt Canadian telecom-equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp. amid concerns the patents could be used to unfairly hobble competitors in the wireless industry, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Liz Gannes in Social on June 3, 2011 at 12:12 pm PT
Google has acquired
PostRank, a four-year-old social start-up that measures social media engagement for online sites, stories and authors. Not much of anything about the deal is being disclosed, besides that PostRank’s team will be moving from Waterloo, Ontario to Mountain View, Calif. to help Google with measurement for both its users and advertisers. See our story about
what happened to SayNow, another recent Google acquisition.
