Tag archive: Chen

Last month, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen's Avos picked up venerable Internet bookmarking service Del.icio.us from Yahoo's cast-off pile—probably at a bargain rate. Now, they've made another deal, buying social media analytics outfit Tap11 for another undisclosed amount. Tap11 is an analytics company that (so far) is focused on tracking what people are talking about on Facebook and Twitter. Tap11′s… Read More

The earthquake in China’s Sichuan province was a huge natural disaster. Occurring on May 12, it killed some 70,000 people and has left millions homeless, pushing authorities to the limit to try and cope with problems in the isolated area. The last thing they needed was a second earthquake. But, according to the Beijing News, that’s what they got – or at least a teenage hacker predicting one. According to that… Read More

Just days after unveiling its promising new OpenBook subnotebook platform, Via has fired up its PR machine once again to announce another big release from the company: a brand new processor line. On Thursday, Via debuted the Nano, a hyper-efficient processor bound to replace Via’s already efficient C7 processors in subnotebooks, UMPCs, and low-power-usage desktops. The new 64-bit chips will come in processor speeds ranging from… Read More

It’s that time of the year again, and last night saw the 11th annual Webby Awards in New York, as the Internetcelebrated itself   Each category had a Webby winner and a People’s Voice winner, and in several instances they were the same. BBC News snagged bothNews awards, while NPR won in the Podcasts. Last FM grabbed both Music Awards.   Pan’s Labyrinth was the unanimous choice for Movie of the Year, How Stuff Works… Read More

Computer maker Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new desktop computer aimed exclusively at the Chinese market, the HP Compaq dx2020, and the system is notable not because it's an HP product exclusively for the Chinese market, but because it isn't driven by an Intel or AMD processor. Instead, the dx2020 marks the first time a major computer manufacturer is shipping a mass-market PC powered by a processor from Via Technologies.… Read More

Naruto fans of the world look out: The Man wants to pull the plug on your YouTube fix. In a two-huor face-to-face meeting with a group of Japanese broadcasters and copyright holders, YouTube founders Cad Hurley and Steven Chen said that video sharing site YouTube will start posting a Japanese-language notice on its site warning users against uploading copyrighted material. However, so far the warning notice is the only concession Japanese… Read More

For a company which has taken some knocks for doing business in China and thereby arguably enabling government censorship and offering support to a repressive regime, Internet titan Google does not seem to be backing away from the enormous Chinese Internet market. Hong Kong's CDC Corporation announced yesterday that Google will power both English-language and traditional Chinese searches for Chinese Internet portal China.com Google and… Read More

From the press release: VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the selection of IBM Microelectronics, the world's premier information technology supplier, as its foundry partner for the next generation of VIA processors based on the “Esther” core scheduled for the second half of 2004. VIA's decision to partner with IBM was… Read More

VIA officials said Saturday that company chairwoman Cher Wang and her husband, president Wenchi Chen, face up to four years in prison, while Jeffrey Chang, a senior consultant at wholly owned subsidiary VIA Networking Technologies, Inc. could spend three years in jail if found guilty.   The prosecutors office has charged that Wang and Chen colluded to illegally obtain chip testing simulation software by sending Chang to work at… Read More