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We're all in the intellectual property business now. But as business people, how much do we enforce our rights when others infringe on them? Creative freelancers are thought of as service providers, but what they're really selling is their copyright in the work product they create for clients. This has special implications on both sides of the transaction. But the true area of confusion that persists is copyright when it comes to web content. Is attribution okay?... →

Nvidia released its second-quarter financial earnings today, reporting that while its overall revenue from graphics card processors was up 10 percent year-over-year, and earnings per share were above expectations. The biggest negatives: The cost of the Shield console recall and restructuring costs after dropping its Icera modem line. Nvidia couldn’t find a buyer for that business. […]... →

If you’re a developer, agency, or online video platform that lets users upload video content to share with their friends, one of the things you may worry about is how to make sure that it’ll render in high quality and also encode at a rapid pace. Should you be encountering this problem, Bitcodin wants to let […]... →

It’s a truism that all software has bugs and security holes. It’s another that license agreements invariably make software vendors immune to liability for damage or losses caused by such flaws. But, to my surprise, Black Hat’s founder and keynote speaker are arguing that software product liability, presumably mandated by governments, is inevitable. If they’re right,… Read More... →

New Relic reported its first quarter, fiscal 2016 performance today, including better than expected revenue, and lower than expected per-share loss. While the latter clause is correct, it’s worth noting that on either a normal (GAAP) and adjusted (non-GAAP) basis, New Relic lost more in its most recent quarter than it did in the comparable year-ago period. However, due to changes in… Read More... →

NVIDIA (NVDA) shares were up nearly 9% in after-hours trading following their announcement of a beat in FY 2016 Q2 earnings Thursday. The computer component manufacturer managed to exceed street expectations on revenue with $1.153 billion while posting non-GAAP earnings of $0.34 per share, up 13% from a year ago. Analysts had looked for Nvidia to generate $0.20 per-share profit on top… Read More... →

The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off in NYC is kicking off in less than two weeks, and you know better than most that a party isn’t really a party unless you’re there. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is a very special event, one I favor over most everything else we do at TC, where folks from the local tech scene can come together and… Read More... →

If you followed the Google Glass saga, you remember that everything started out pretty hunky dory. There was an exciting demo that included people jumping out of a plane. Then there were developers in line to pay $1,500 to have a play with them and build apps for the hardware. It was a developer-only program. What could go wrong? The “shower incident.” That’s what. Read More... →

A preliminary CNBC report is suggesting that the Russian government is responsible for a “sophisticated cyber intrusion” of an unclassified Joint Staff email server. The server, which affected “4,000 military and civilian personnel” is still under investigation. This follows a number of prominent hacks including the recent attack on the Office Of Personnel Management… Read More... →

Over 15 years, Technology Translated host Scott Ellis has built sites that number well into the high-hundreds, and the failure of business owners to own and control their digital assets is the single biggest mistake he has observed across that time. And a lot of you are still doing it. In the era of the "Sharing Economy," the idea of ownership might sound a bit archaic.... →

Twitter's falling share prices have, once again, sparked speculation that the time is right for Google to buy Twitter, but what benefits would the buyout really have?... →

Zynga today beat analyst expectations for revenue and earnings, but its user numbers continued to decline, sending the stock down about 1% in extended trading. Zynga’s daily active user numbers declined 23 percent year over year to 21 million, which were also down 15% quarter-over-quarter. Its monthly active users also fell 32% to 83 million, down 18% sequentially. In the first quarter,… Read More... →

We recently launched manual ad break playback across our iOS, Android, HTML5, and Flash SDKs. For more info on what this means and how to use it, read on! What is manual ad break playback? Under a standard IMA SDK implementation, when an ad rules or VMAP response is returned, the SDK will automatically play each ad break at its cue point. With manual ad break playback, the SDK will instead fire an event when it's time to play an ad break,... →

Arista Networks, a networking firm, announced its second quarter financial performance today, beating market expectations. The firm earned an adjusted $0.54 per share,on revenue of $195.6 million during the three month period. Investors had expected an adjusted $0.46 per-share profit, off of top line of $190.30 million. Arista managed net income of $23.9 million, measured using normal… Read More... →

Tindie, the marketplace for makers to fund and sell their hardware creations, is being acquired by maker blog Hackaday. Headquartered in San Francisco, Tindie has previously raised $1.7 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Slow Ventures, among others. Hackaday, a popular blog that features DIY technology projects, was acquired in 2013 by SupplyFrame, which is an advertising… Read More... →

OPINION: Tonight, Fox News and Facebook are cohosting the first of many debates among the candidates for the Republican Party presidential nomination and, thankfully, you can stream it online. Given that half of Fox’s audience is literally old enough to have attended segregated schools, you might not expect to find a live-stream. As it is, the streaming rules are a bit complicated: According […]... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Zynga reported today that its mobile slots games have hit the jackpot. Zynga’s Wizard of Oz Slots and Hit It Rich! Slots games have generated bookings that are up 274 percent from a year ago. That contributed to the overall company coming in at above expectations on both bookings and earnings. And coming in the […]... →

Zynga reported second-quarter earnings and bookings that beat Wall Street’s estimates. The company outperformed expectations in the first full quarter since Mark Pincus returned as chief executive a hundred days ago. Zynga reported a non-GAAP net loss of $7.6 million, or a loss of 1 cent a share, on bookings of $174 million. Analysts had expected […]... →

Zynga announced today that it’s adding former Electronic Arts executive Frank Gibeau to its board of directors. The addition is an important move for Zynga, which is trying to make mobile games in a more profitable manner. Gibeau is one of the most seasoned executives in the game industry, and most recently, he was an executive […]... →