Filed under: Biz, World of Warcraft
It’s the beginning of the quarterly “earnings season” as public corporation announce their regular financial results. Activision Blizzard decided to get a jump on things by announcing some figures ahead of their official results. The publisher expects their last fiscal quarter (which ended on March 31) to bring in $860 [...]
Filed under: Internet, News
Now that eBay is ridding itself of StumbleUpon and spinning off Skype into a standalone company, it can focus on what it does best: auctions and sales. Reuters reports that eBay has offered to buy South Korea’s Gmarket for as much as $1.2 billion.
Gmarket is the top e-commerce site in South Korea. [...]
It’s pretty hard for Cox Cable to change the name on your account, as Keith and his wife (the original account owner) discovered recently. First they have to disconnect your service, then reconnect it under the new name—and that probably requires all sorts of paperwork and labor. Probably hours of work! Probably someone has to [...]
Filed under: Internet, Web
There are plenty of web sites that will let you know which famous and historic people you share a birthday with. Dead At Your Age is kind of the opposite. It doesn’t quite tell you who died on your birthday. But does let you know which famous people you’ve lived longer than. [...]
Filed under: Audio, Fun, Internet, Web services
Maybe Last.Fm has backed off charging some of us a subscription fee for now, but that’s no reason to avoid making back up plans. You’ve likely got a massive library of tunes on one of your computers by now – why not roll-you-own web-based streaming service?
Sockso makes [...]
Lots of readers have been sending us this clip today. It’s called “The Filthiest McDonalds in the World,” and yes, it pretty much is. On the plus side, you don’t have to send your kids to the ball pit—you can just place them on the floor and watch them sink out of sight.
(Thanks to everyone [...]
Skye is on a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean without any way to pay for things, because Citibank canceled his card due to a security breach and didn’t bother to warn him first. What’s worse, they’re making him call repeatedly to try to fix it, which is costing him $3.50/minute because he’s [...]
Toy Company Fined $1.1 Million For Not Reporting Deadly Toy Mega Brands, the company that made Magnetix building sets, has agreed to pay a $1.1 million civil penalty to settle claims that the company failed to give the government timely information about the dangers of the magnets in the building sets.[Consumer Reports]
Link [...]
Mike Daisey, the monologist and former employee at Amazon.com, told the Seattle PI that the weekend’s gay and feminist book fiasco was actually caused by an employee at Amazon.fr who confused the term “adult”—which refers to porn stuff in Amazon’s system—with “erotic” and “sexuality.” That sharp-toothed troll who claimed all the credit is going to [...]
Melissa realized that one of the $5 bills in her wallet is fake:
From what I’ve seen online, if I take it to a bank, they might take it, but of course I won’t be compensated. Should I turn it into the police? What should I do with it? I don’t really want to just [...]
