Hasbro, the company known for G.I. Joe and Battleship, will be taking their brand digital with a new acquisition announced late last night. In a deal worth $112 million, Hasbro bought a 70% stake in Colorado based Backflip Studios, the mobile game maker behind popular games such as Dragonville, NinJump and Paper Toss. Mobile gaming companies like King may find similar valuations as they launch their own IPOs, in the near future. A large restructuring is being blamed for a number of layoffs at San Francisco's digital outsourcing market "TaskRabbit". To account for that shift, earlier this year the company launched their TaskRabbit for Business service, and even tested the service by staffing this year's South-by-SouthWest. It's believed that the recent layoffs may just be a cost of the businesses shift in focus. Beats Electronics, maker of the popular "Beats By Dr. Dre" line of headphones , hopes to enlist the marketing muscle of AT&T to aid in the launch of their planned streaming music service. The goal, according to company CEO Jimmy Iovine, is to bundle the upcoming Beats service, called Daisy, with AT&T's data plan as a way to gather the biggest audience as quickly as possible. Make magazine, the company behind Maker Faire, may have a solution that could help both educate and entertain children staying at home this summer. Maker Camp is a thirty day long "do-it-yourself" event that runs using the Google-Plus platform, and connects followers to a
number of activities and challenges throughout the Summer. Anyone in the world can participate, and best of all, the whole service is free. Podio, Citrix's online collaboration platform, just rolled out a new video conferencing tool that has the potential to blow away the competition. The addition of a video chat to the platform enables users to speak with colleagues to solve issues in real time, and a new built-in file-sharing feature will help collaborators distribute work without having to rely on email. Justin Carter, aged nineteen, is being held under suicide watch in a Comal County Jail, just outside of San Antonio, Texas, for words he said during an argument on Facebook, over a disagreement with players from the online game League of Legends. After one participant called him crazy, Justin replied, among other inflammatory language, "I think I'll shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them." After posting his comments, an anonymous caller tipped-off the police, who then arrested the teen for making terroristic threats. Mr. Carter, who was eighteen at the time of the arrest, spent the last four months in jail, and isn't likely to get out anytime soon. Bluebox security claimed to have discovered a vulnerability in Android's security that could allow hackers to convert nearly every application into Trojan malware. Now, Google is reporting that the hole has been patched, and the fix has been passed onto all original equipment manufacturers. Warning about the seriousness of the issue, Bluebox Security CTO Jeff Forristal said this vulnerability has been "around at least since the release of Android one-point-six, and could affect any Android phone released in the last four years — or nearly nine-hundred million devices." Now, it's simply a matter of time until Android users receive the update from their hardware vendors, at which point the security issue should finally come to an end. Image: Screen Shot On Video
number of activities and challenges throughout the Summer. Anyone in the world can participate, and best of all, the whole service is free. Podio, Citrix's online collaboration platform, just rolled out a new video conferencing tool that has the potential to blow away the competition. The addition of a video chat to the platform enables users to speak with colleagues to solve issues in real time, and a new built-in file-sharing feature will help collaborators distribute work without having to rely on email. Justin Carter, aged nineteen, is being held under suicide watch in a Comal County Jail, just outside of San Antonio, Texas, for words he said during an argument on Facebook, over a disagreement with players from the online game League of Legends. After one participant called him crazy, Justin replied, among other inflammatory language, "I think I'll shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them." After posting his comments, an anonymous caller tipped-off the police, who then arrested the teen for making terroristic threats. Mr. Carter, who was eighteen at the time of the arrest, spent the last four months in jail, and isn't likely to get out anytime soon. Bluebox security claimed to have discovered a vulnerability in Android's security that could allow hackers to convert nearly every application into Trojan malware. Now, Google is reporting that the hole has been patched, and the fix has been passed onto all original equipment manufacturers. Warning about the seriousness of the issue, Bluebox Security CTO Jeff Forristal said this vulnerability has been "around at least since the release of Android one-point-six, and could affect any Android phone released in the last four years — or nearly nine-hundred million devices." Now, it's simply a matter of time until Android users receive the update from their hardware vendors, at which point the security issue should finally come to an end. Image: Screen Shot On Video
