According to the Sun Sentinel, a South Florida newspaper, the State of Florida is considering legalizing Internet Poker. A Bill introduced by Florida Rep. Joseph Abruzzo, would legalize Internet poker effective July 1, 2011. Mr. Abruzzo is quoted by the paper saying: "There are hundreds of thousands of players in Florida in unregulated and unprotected offshore sites. "Why not … [Read more...]
Google: Content Farms & Mini-Sites We Are Gunning For For You
Today Matt Cutts who is the Principal Engineer at Google, posted on Google's blog that they was gunning to eliminate junk sites, including what many would refer to as mini-sites and content farms from being indexed in Google. "Just as a reminder, webspam is junk you see in search results when websites try to cheat their way into higher positions in search results or otherwise violate search … [Read more...]
Watch Out Groupon.com Here Comes Google Offers
Mashable reported last night that Google looks like its gearing up to take on Groupon.com head to head with its own Product Google Offers. Google does own the domain name GoogleOffers.com According to Mashable they have a "confidential fact sheet straight from the Googleplex about the company’s new group buying service. “Google Offers is a new product to help potential customers and … [Read more...]
Kevin Ham Buys ThreeWords.Me
A couple of nights ago we wrote about the domain name threewords.me which was for sale based off its huge visitor and user count. Tonight comes word via Mashable.com that none other than Kevin Ham has stepped up to buy the site. Terms we not disclosed bu considering that the in-house auction was suppose to run for 5 days and the site sold in just 2 might indicate a pretty nice price for Mark … [Read more...]
Apple By The Numbers: $27 Billion In Sales, $6 Billion Profits; 7 Million iPads and 16 Million iPhones
When your talking about Apple your taking about numbers which are just, well before Apple pretty much unimaginable. Shares of Apple started the day off around 7% after Steve Jobs announcement yesterday that he was taking a medical leave but wound up trading higher after it released its earnings tonight. According to TechCrunch Apple market Cap had a one day swing of $20 BILLION. Yes the … [Read more...]
Facebook Hits $70 BILLION Dollar Valuation Just 2 Weeks After Hitting $50 Billion
According to TechCrunch.com, a block of shares traded for Facebook.com at $28.26 a share yesterday on SecondMarket.com Based on that sale Facebook.com is now valued at $70 Billion dollars. Back On January 3rd we told you that Goldman Sachs invested $450 million into Facebook which gave it a $50 Billion dollar valuation. So in less than 2 weeks Facebook has gone from a $50Billion dollar … [Read more...]
TheStreet.com: Tech Trends to Emerge by 2014
TheStreet.com just published a post entitled 15 Tech Trends To Emerge By 2014. While you will have to check out the entire article to see the full list but here are the highlights: "Within two to three years, 25% to 35% of business users will employ a smartphone exclusively and abandon fixed-line phones." "Google Android will become a significant portion of the smartphone installed base, … [Read more...]