Play Hard Sports, a Foxboro, Mass.-based startup that develops sports focused MMO games, has raised $8 million in second round of funding led by return backer New Enterprise Associates and an undisclosed outside lead. Prior to this round the startup has raised $5 million in the first round and is le...

Forbes has laid off 19 workers as it merged the online and magazine operations in a bid to become competitive and lean again to cope with the worsening economy. The move makes a lot of sense, but nevertheless would be hard for the ones who lost their jobs today. According to official statement: Toda...

Seagate has doubled the storage capacity per platter to 500 GB with the release of Barracuda 7200.12. This makes Barracuda 7200.12 industry’s highest areal density hard drive that boosts a SATA interface, a data rate of 160 MB/sec. The Hard Disk is available in 500GB, 750 GB, and 1 TB versions, bu...

The sale of Fujitsu’s hard disk division to Western Digital, which seemed almost imminent sometime back, has now gone haywire. Fujitsu’s President Kuniaki Nozoe, has now publicly stated there is currently zero chance of the deal getting hammered. ---Related Articles at Startup Meme: ClickPass em...

Digg is at it once again, banning more heavyweights. This time brokebackcasket and insaincain02 have been shown the door. Digg’s community has been the price asset of the startup, but lately Digg started booting one heavyweight after another for different reasons. This might at some point in time ...

The unveiling of Bernard Madoff’s giant ponzi scheme, that is estimated to be around $50billion, has opened the floodgates to anti-semitism on the Internet, according to Anti-Defamation League. Madoff, is a Jew and a prominent member of the powerful Jewish community in the US. According to Abraham...

Youtube is slowly but surely encroaching on all areas of web video. The web video giant is already pondering about jumping into live streaming, but till that is settled Youtube has decided to venture into the How-To video market space. Students are increasingly turning to Youtube to watch instructio...

Google’s latest version of Picasa Photo Uploader for Macs now allows users to download the Albums to their hard drives as well. Although this feature has been around on Windows and Linux based versions, Macs have been missing such an option till today. The one thing still missing from the Mac vers...

Fortune magazine has laid off two Cleantech reporters, which has resulted in the magazine having just one full time reporter who publishes for the magazine’s website. This is in striking contrast with the magazines report last month in which it said that investors are still bullish on clean techno...

Robert Scoble recently visited the factory of his sponsor’s Seagate in Wuxi, China. The visit resulted in the video embedded above in which Leong Hooi, VP of Wuxi Manufacturing Plant at Seagate shares a lot of insights with Scoble. Among some of my favorite tidbits, Seagate’s Wuxi plant works 24...