FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit took these photos after the late-night closing of the company’s acquisition deal. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s disinterest in having cameras pointed at his face — he declined to participate in a guaranteed-hit book about the company’s founding — has become part of his personal brand.
[aditude-amp id="flyingcarpet" targeting='{"env":"staging","page_type":"article","post_id":120419,"post_type":"story","post_chan":"none","tags":null,"ai":false,"category":"none","all_categories":"business,","session":"B"}']Technology blogger Robert Scoble had a lot to do with FriendFeed’s word-of-mouth marketing. In fact, FriendFeed is the only way to actually keep up with the hyperactive Scoble. Just an hour ago he blogged, or tweeted, or wrote somewhere on the Internet where FriendFeed found it: “So, who is leaving FriendFeed? I probably am.” Not empty-handed, I hope.
[Photo: Paul Buchheit]
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Lenovo’s biggest investor seeks to sell 29 percent of the company — Legend Holdings wants $404 million for part of its 65 percent share in the fourth-largest PC maker. “It will be one of several Chinese companies, but we don’t know any names,” a spokesperson unhelpfully told the New York Times. The Times reminds readers that Lenovo was originally spun off from the state-owned Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1984 as Legend. In 2003, the company changed its name and then in 2005, Lenovo bought IBM’s personal computer business. Today, Lenovo has lost money for three quarters in a row, despite thousands of job cuts. The positive spin being put on the sale is that it’s “part of [the Academy’s] long-term plan to shift holdings in Legend to market-oriented companies, rather than state-run institutions.”
Google testing new search infrastructure — The company wants feedback “only on the differences between Google’s search results and our new system.” On the new site, a vanity search for my name pushes Twitter down from #3 to #4 and replaces #3 with my VentureBeat author page. That’s all I need to know about it for now.
Cellphone users diverging into two camps — A new report by Nielsen says that while plenty of people buy iPhones while complaining about AT&T’s service, more buyers are now looking for cheap plans above everything else.
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