Report: Google Attacks Emanated From Schools in China

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Mark Hefflinger
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Mountain View, Calif. – A series of cyber attacks targeting Google (NASD:  GOOG) and
other U.S. companies
emanated from a pair of schools in China, The New York Times reported,
citing people involved in the investigation. The paper also reported that the
sophisticated attacks, revealed by Google last month, may have started several
months earlier than previously thought.

Investigators believe that the hacks originated
from Shanghai Jiaotong
University and the Lanxiang Vocational School,
and aimed to steal trade secrets and computer codes, as well as emails from
Chinese human rights activists.

Jiaotong is considered to have one of the
world’s foremost computer science programs, recently beating out schools such
as Stanford in IBM’s "Battle
of the Brains" programming competition.

Lanxiang, meanwhile, trains
computer scientists for the Chinese military.

 

Related Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/technology/19china.html

E-book Tools Developer Vook Lands $2.5 Million

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Mark Hefflinger
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Alameda,
Calif. – Vook, a developer of
e-book tools that allow publishers to integrate text, video, pictures, social
media and links, said on Friday that it has raised $2.5 million in a new round
of seed funding.

Investors included Ron Conway; Kenneth Lerer, chairman of the
Huffington Post; Maples Investments; Baseline Ventures and Founder Collective.

The company plans to use the proceeds to accelerate growth in all areas of its
business in 2010.

Since its formal launch last fall, Alameda, Calif.-based Vook
has formed publishing relationships with Simon & Schuster, HarperStudio and
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., and announced titles with bestselling writers
including Seth Godin and Anne Rice.

"We believe we’re bringing Vook to
market at the exact right time to help transform an industry, drive creativity
and create a whole new media experience for consumers," said Brad Inman,
the founder and CEO of Vook.

 

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http://www.vook.com  

How Much Would You Pay For Online Access To Your Newspaper?

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Joakim Baage
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Moonshoot Gets $6.6 Million for Games That Teach Kids English

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Mark Hefflinger
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Palo Alto,
Calif. – Moonshoot, a company
developing online games that teach the English language to children, announced that
it has raised $6.6 million in venture capital financing, led by Alsop Louie
Partners and TL Ventures.

Founded in 2007, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Moonshoot plans
to launch its service later this year, first in Japan
before expanding to Asian countries including China,
Taiwan and Korea.

The company also said that
it named Tom Kalinske as executive chairman; Kalinske was previously CEO and
chairman of Leapfrog, CEO of Sega of America and CEO of Mattel.

 

Related Links:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3620354.htm

http://www.moonshoot.com

Study: URL Typos Netting Google $497 Million Annually

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Mark Hefflinger
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San Francisco – Google (NASD: GOOG) may be
earning $497 million each year from the ads that run on sites whose URLs are
similar to a popular site but mistyped by users, ZDNet.com reported, citing a
study from Harvard
University researchers
Ben Edelman and Tyler Moore. The researchers looked at 285,000 of 900,000
misspelled website URLs, and estimated that the top sites are collectively
receiving at least 68.2 million daily visitors.


 

Related Links:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=30897

http://www.benedelman.org/typosquatting/pop.html

Facebook Adopts PayPal for Ads, Virtual Goods Purchases

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Mark Hefflinger
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Palo Alto,
Calif. – Facebook announced on
Thursday that it has partnered with eBay’s (NASD: EBAY) online payments firm PayPal to enable use
of the platform on Facebook’s advertising and developer systems. International
advertisers will now be able to use PayPal to pay for Facebook Ads. In
addition, PayPal will become a payment option for Facebook Credits, which users
can purchase and buy virtual goods on Facebook


 

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http://www.paypal.com

Amazon.com Offers Kindle E-book App for BlackBerry

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Mark Hefflinger
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Seattle
– Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) on Thursday introduced a new Kindle e-book reader application for
Research in Motion’s (NASD: RIMM) BlackBerry smartphones. The free application will give BlackBerry owners
on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and other carriers direct access to the
Kindle store and 420,000 e-book titles. Amazon released a Kindle application
for Apple’s iPhone last March.


 

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http://www.amazon.com/kindlebb

Verizon Releases FiOS TV Remote Control App for Smartphones

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Mark Hefflinger
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New York
– Verizon (NYSE: VZ) on Thursday introduced a new mobile application for Motorola Droid
and HTC Imagio owners that will allow them to use the smartphones for its FiOS
TV digital TV service. The Verizon FiOS Mobile Remote application lets users
control channel changing, volume, the on-screen keyboard and DVR scheduling,
and also transfer photos stored on their phones to the TV screen.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/uexv7

http://www.verizon.com/fiostv

iCopyright Names Elston New CEO

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Mark Hefflinger
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Seattle
– iCopyright, a provider of online copyright tracking and licensing services,
announced on Thursday that it has named Andrew Elston as its new CEO. Elston,
who previously serves as vice president of publisher services at iCopyright,
replaces founder Mike O’Donnell, who will be working independently on new
strategic initiatives.


 

Related Links:
http://www.icopyright.com

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