Archive for July, 2011

Apple Cloud Server Hackers

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Anonymous, the hacker group which is some of the best hacks out there like PayPal, MasterCard and Visa, in support of whistleblower website Wikileaks has now broken into an Apple cloud server. The group confessed that it had hacked into an Apple server used for technical online surveys on twitter. It tweeted: “Apple cloud be a target, too. But don’t worry we are busy elsewhere”.

Apple is considered by the majority of people out there the holy-grail of hacking as it has one of the most robust systems in the world. The timing of the attack is also significant as Apple recently announced the arrival of its cloud storage facility, the iCloud. The cloud locker facility allows users to store music, apps, documents and calendar on the cloud. The success of the offering depends on user’s willingness to move their data to Apple servers. The current hack can raise questions about the security of iCloud.

It’s crazy that so many hackers would be able to unite and hack into a cloud server infrastructure like Apple.  What are you thoughts on this?

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Zynga Goes For $1 Billion IPO

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Zynga earlier today filed an S-1 with the SEC.  What this means to you and me is the company plans to go public. According to the filing, Zynga aims to raise as much as $1 billion, but this could be a place holder amount.  According to the filing Zynga has 60 million daily active users in 138 countries. 38,000 virtual items are created every second. The company had $100 million in revenue in 2010, and grew revenue to $235 million in the first quarter of 2011.

Zynga is profitable, posting $27.9 million in net income in 2010, which is a a 28% net margin

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