Herea4ぎa4г our roundup of the weeka4ぎa4г tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Apple fails to fix iPhone Daylight Saving Time alarm bug for US &8212' If you live in the US, we hope you didna4ぎa4д rely on your iPhonea4ぎa4г alarm clock to wake you up on Monday morning.
Microsofta4ぎa4г Kinect gaming control hacked already &8212' Just a few days after the launch of Microsofta4ぎa4г Kinect motion-sensing game system, hackers broke the security behind it.
Gmail creator Paul Buchheit leaves Facebook for Y Combinator &8212' Y Combinator, the increasingly famous Silicon Valley incubator, announced two new general partners Friday a4ぎa4 Gmail creator/FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar, who was already working at YC as a startup advisor.
The iPhone app is the Flash homepage of 2010 &8212' In the late 1990s, it was common for companies to spend $50,000 to $150,000 for a Flash homepage that looked like a beautiful brochure. However, they soon learned that Flash was cumbersome, slow to load, expensive to build, and hard to update, and moved on to HTML. Guest columnist Peter Yared argues that the same trend is replaying itself on the iPhone.
Amazona4ぎa4г secret retail empire &8212' Jeff Bezos has a loud laugh. But Amazon.coma4ぎa4г founder and CEO is keeping quiet about his expansion efforts, which now include sites as varied as BuyVIP.com, Zappos, and as of Monday, Diapers.com.
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Attention, flight-search startups: Priceline, Expedia say hotels are where ita4ぎa4г at &8212' Are todaya4ぎa4г flight-focused travel-search startups like Hipmunk trying to solve the wrong problem
Why Windows Phone 7a4ぎa4г first day sales numbers dona4ぎa4д matter &8212' Following a flurry of online speculation about the sales of Microsofta4ぎa4г new mobile platform, VentureBeata4ぎa4г Devindra Hardawar said hea4ぎa4г becoming convinced that the actual first day sales dona4ぎa4д matter.
Are fleet sales the future of electric cars GE will take 25,000, please &8212' GE announced plans this week to make the largest purchase in the history of electric vehicles a4ぎa4 25,000 cars by 2015.
Privacy on social networks a concern for old, not young &8212' Concerns about privacy on social networks have increased drastically since a year ago among older users, but not younger ones, a new study shows.
Will RockMelta4ぎa4г social features shake up the browser market &8212' Therea4ぎa4г been a flood of news coverage for RockMelt, a new Web browser thata4ぎa4г just opening to the public. The response isna4ぎa4д surprising, since the founders have big ambitions and have been validated with funding from Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape. But therea4ぎa4г been some backlash too, in part because RockMelta4ぎa4г promises sound awfully familiar.
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Companies: Amazon.com, Apple, Expedia, GE, Hipmunk, Microsoft, Priceline, RockMelt, Y Combinator
People: Harj Taggar, Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen, Paul Buchheit
Companies: Amazon.com, Apple, Expedia, GE, Hipmunk, Microsoft, Priceline, RockMelt, Y Combinator
People: Harj Taggar, Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen, Paul Buchheit
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