* Co says filed Chapter 11 to allow for restructuring * Has secured DIP financing of $110 mln (Adds detail) NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) - Real estate developerCrescent Resources (CRC.V) on Wednesday said it had filed forbankruptcy protection to allow it ...Read More
We talk to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's scriptwriter to find out what he hoped to achieve with the airport mission, how they considered putting aliens in the game, and why the game should be adapted into a movie.
Jesse ...Read More
HONG KONG/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Two large Asia IPOs delivered impressive openings on Thursday, with shares of Malaysia's leading mobile provider, Maxis Bhd (MXSC.KL), and Chinese developer Longfor Properties Co (0960.HK) rising sharply in early trade. Asia has emerged as the ...Read More
At its PDC developer shindig in Los Angeles, Microsoft is announcing that it’s putting Office 2010, which isn’t due to ship until the first half of next year, into a public beta. You can download the whole beta right here, ...Read More
BALTIMORE — Two of the seven charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon are being dropped.
A judge dismissed the charges Tuesday during the mayor's theft trial. Prosecutors claim Dixon used gift cards intended for the needy for personal shopping sprees.
The judge ...Read More
Here's how the sausage of video game news gets made: ShackNews reports that the Peggle Nights DLC will arrive on XBLA this Wednesday, November 18. The DLC is a $5 addition to XBLA Peggle, adding sixty-something levels to the game ...Read More
In July of last year, I wrote about The New Apple Walled Garden. The post was about the irony of developers and advocates who were otherwise open standards and open source champions being absolutely pro-iPhone, a platform that is closed ...Read More
"My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple's policies." – Joe Hewitt
Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, the man behind the immensely popular Facebook application for iPhone, has just tweeted that he's done with the project:
"Time for ...Read More
It's oh-so enticing: You find a copy of a brand-new game like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on a pirate site and the temptation to download it is too strong. Well, that temptation may have cost up to 1 million ...Read More
Google just released a new open source programming language called Go. Go is intended to offer built-in support for concurrent processes, make the most of modern hardware and deliver a super-fast coding experience. Google says in its announcement that "Go ...Read More
RUMFORD, Maine -- A wind-power company says a western Maine site it's been looking at is too windy for turbines. First Wind's Matthew Kearns told a public meeting in Rumford on Thursday that its proposed Longfellow wind farm on Black ...Read More
Al Gore has been advocating for climate change for 30 years and the former vice president says he is more than willing to put his "money where his mouth is" and invest in green companies.
In an interview on "Good Morning ...Read More
Reports are coming in that the newest developer seed of 10.6.2 puts a halt to Hackintosh users that are running the Mac OS on an Intel Atom processor.
Numerous sites are reporting that the last developer seed of 10.6.2 breaks compatibility ...Read More
Apple is reportedly breaking Hackintoshes -- meaning netbooks illegimately installed with Mac OS X -- with its latest update to Leopard.
The current developer build of OS X -- 10.6.2 -- will not run on the Intel Atom processor commonly used ...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who had challenged CIT Group Inc's restructuring plan, said on Friday he was now backing the company's pre-packaged bankruptcy and would provide an additional $1 billion in credit to the lender. CIT shares ...Read More
Facebook has updated its homepage with a dual-view news feed. A summary view now displays the "most interesting" activity over the past 24 hours, while a "real-time" stream offers instant access to ongoing updates.
"While seeing real-time activities is extremely valuable, ...Read More
A deal's a deal. That's worth remembering this week as the city attorney's office fences with AEG, the developer of the L.A. Live project, over the imminent opening of a new movie theater at the downtown entertainment complex. At issue ...Read More
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. said it agreedto sell First Republic Bank to a group led by private-equityfirms General Atlantic LLC and Colony Capital LLC. General Atlantic and Colony are partnering with FirstRepublic Chairman James H. Herbert II ...Read More
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Erickson Retirement Communities LLC,a developer of 20 senior living campuses, filed for bankruptcy,saying Redwood Capital Investments LLC has agreed to act as leadbidder for the company’s assets. Erickson, based in Baltimore, listed more than$1 billion dollars in ...Read More
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., the biggestU.S. lender, posted its second quarterly loss in less than ayear, unable to shake off effects of the economic slump that ledto two U.S. bailouts.
The $1 billion third-quarter loss, or 26 ...Read More
I can think of a LOT of good reasons to jailbreak an iPhone, but there's one reason to jailbreak that's not cool at all, and that's to pirate apps from the Apple App Store. It's hard to get a handle on ...Read More
