Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Teen's $28m payday a high price in Yahoo's quest for cool

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

Teen's $28m payday a high price in Yahoo's quest for cool

When a 17-year-old high school student can sell an iPhone app based on another firm's technology and with no revenue for $US30 million ($28m), has the world gone mad? Asher Moses reports.

Top stories

Ideas that could change your life

Cover star: A simulation of the polio virus by scientist Jason Roberts
Kate Hagan, Bridie Smith, Peter Barrett, Clare Kermond, Lucy Beaumont and Felicity Lewis | They might be a long way off, but groundwork for some amazing breakthroughs is being laid right here in Australia and right now. Below, we list the Melbourne research that could change your future.

Spam dispute becomes 'largest cyber attack' in history of the internet

Cyber Warfare
John Markoff and Nicole Perlroth 3:46pm | The denial-of-service attacks have reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300 billion bits per second.

Working for Blizzard: an Aussie artist's Cinderella story

starcraft ultralisk
James Dominguez 12:47pm | Sharing his StarCraft fan art online, Melbourne artist Luke Mancini could only dream of being paid to work for Blizzard, but that dream came true.

Hands on: WheelDock smartphone car mount

WheelDock.
Adam Turner 10:53am | Strapping your smartphone to the steering wheel sounds like a great idea, but it's not always practical.

The myth of the superbaby

Chinese children
Will Oremus | Can China really breed a crop of genetically selected geniuses?

Good Samaritan fooled out of $700,000

nigeria scam
ALEISHA ORR 1:38pm | A West Australian man who admits it was his "soft nature" that lost him about $700,000 in two separate scams is warning others to "beware."

Online disruptors aim for law, recruitment

LAW AFR 100201 MELB PIC BY JESSICA SHAPIRO...GENERIC lawyer, judge, barrister, silk, qc, gown, wig, practise, legal affairs, court. AFR FIRST USE ONLY PLEASE!!! SPECIAL 121481
Sylvia Pennington 12:02am | Having shaken up the world of bricks-and-mortar retailing, technology entrepreneurs are using cut-price, online offerings to disrupt pricey professional services such as law and recruitment.

Like it or not, Facebook may still know your secrets

Facebook
SOMINI SENGUPTA | Facebook is tapping into new sources of data to help it direct more targeted ads at users.

Google clashes with Swedes over 'ungoogleable'

Google
11:13am | Sweden's language watchdog has accused Google of trying to control the Swedish language in a dispute over the definition of the colloquial term "ungoogleable".

Another US bank hit by cyber attack

Wells Fargo
10:36am | Wells Fargo & Co on Tuesday said its online banking website was experiencing an unusually high volume of traffic that it believes stems from a denial-of-service cyber attack.

Transfield signs $170m NBN deal

NBN Rollout.
Transfield Services will take part in the national broadband network in Sydney under a $170 million two-year deal.

Oracle unveils 'faster' gear to energise its own business

Larry Ellison
Noel Randewich 1:38pm | New line of faster servers, the latest step to revive a shrinking hardware division and shore up a core software business.

Bidders plan Dell's future without Dell

Michael Dell
Jeffrey McCracken, Serena Saitto & Aaron Ricadela 11:28am | Investors have spoken to Oracle's Mark Hurd about running Dell, source says.

Court questions public interest scope in Apple secrecy hearing

Apple Samsung
Alina Selyukh 10:45am | Media and advocacy groups want Apple and Samsung to unseal financial documents from the patent case.
 

Advertisement

Advertisement

Compare & Save

Popular mobile phones
  1. Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB
  2. Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB
  3. Apple iPhone 8GB
  4. Nokia E71
  5. HTC Magic
Find the best mobile phone plan
Apple iPhone 8GB

Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. Be wary of suspicious emails claiming to offer Fairfax Media digital services.

You are receiving this email as a registered Fairfax Media digital member. Your username is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. Your email address is: garn14.tech@blogger.com.

If you do not want to receive further announcements from Fairfax Media digital, please unsubscribe here.

Fairfax Media Limited. ABN 15 008 663 161.
1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, Sydney, NSW 2009. 1800 500 864.

News | MyCareer | Domain | Drive | Finance | Mobile | RSVP | Travel | Weather Fairfax Digital
Network Map | Member Centre