Archive for July 4th, 2007
links for 2007-07-03
Posted by: amygdala on July 4, 2007
- Sources: DOJ has sent subpoenas to the top 4 US mobile carriers and GSMA association over alleged collusion to impede eSIM features for easier carrier switching (Wall Street Journal)
- Rare Bits, a crypto-collectible trading site, raises $6M Series A led by Spark Capital with First Round, Craft Ventures, SV Angel, and Justin Kan participating (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
- RealSelf, a Yelp-like review site for cosmetic procedures, raises $40M Series B for international expansion; RealSelf raised ~$2M in 2007-2008 (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
- Interview with filmmaker Andrew Oleck on his spoof video "starring" Mark Zuckerberg, A World Without Facebook, which has 32M+ views and caused some confusion (Adam Clark Estes/Gizmodo)
- Photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug acquires Flickr from Oath, promises to revitalize and maintain Flickr as a standalone service (Jessica Guynn/USA Today)
- Pivotal closes up ~5% on its first day of trading after raising $555M in its IPO at a valuation of ~$3.8B (Joseph Tsidulko/CRN)
- UK judge sentences Kane Gamble, a teen who hacked online accounts of the director of CIA and other prominent US government employees, to two years in prison (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/Motherboard)
- DOJ probes AT&T, Verizon, and, sources say, GSMA, for possible collusion to thwart eSIM tech; sources say probe opened after Apple and others filed complaints (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
- Tax forms filed by the nonprofit OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to AI specialists across the world (Cade Metz/New York Times)
- Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its network, pointing to DHS' September notice of vendor's ties to Russian intelligence services (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Cyberscoop)
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