Raw Capital Partners has been fined AU$33,000 by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) for not declaring the loss of a key contract to the stock market.
The key contract, with Optus, had provided 2/3 of revenue for Raw Capital Partners for the 2005 and 2006 financial period. It was signed in 2001, allowing Raw Capital to provide the telco with network, server, desktop and application support services.
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Though it’s popularity came on YouTube, the season one finale (according to Mashable) will air on MySpaceTV on August 3rd. As well, 12 episodes of the finale will come up, one for each hour (Episodes are about 1 – 4 Minutes in length). Also, a branded channel will be created.
iTunes has finally cracked the 3 billion mark since it’s launch April 2003, though it’s 1 billion songs was reached in February 2006.
In the first quarter of this year, it was ranked the third-biggest overall music retailer in the US, behind No. 1 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Best Buy, according to consumer surveys by The NPD Group. However, this was based on units sold, not revenue, and counted every 12 tracks purchased online, as it is an equivalent to an album.
A federal judge in Boston has now given ConnectU two weeks to amend it’s copyright-infringement suit against Facebook after Facebook sought to have it dismissed.
The case goes that ConnectU founders had hired Facebook’s Zuckerberg to write code for their “Harvard Connection,” a social networking site for Harvard. They also alleged that Zuckerberg stole the idea and code and made Facebook.
According to BoingBoing, Thailand has no longer banned YouTube. Speculation is that Thailand unblocked it as YouTube was willing to block specific access to some clips. The videos in question contained material offensive to the King, Bhumibol Adulyadej.
MySpace.com has now found and deleted over 29,000 profiles of convicted sex offenders, more than 4 times the number of 7,000 initially reported by MySpace in May. The information has been turned over to law enforcement agencies.
The BBC is reporting that Facebook, the second-largest social networking site, is now facing legal action by a rival site. The site, ConnectU, have claimed that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea while they were in Harvard.
Australian airline Qantas has announced it plans to offer in-flight internet in all of it’s Airbus A380s and as well a power source for all laptops. Plans to retrofit the Boeing 747-400 were also announced.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has fined DC Marketing Europe for “serious breaches” in the 2003 Spam Act – where the maximum penalty is $149,600.
ACMA has said that DC Marketing Europe had breached the act 102 times, all in July & August last year. DC Marketing Europe had place short, small calls on mobile phone users, placing a missed call message. When users called up the number, they were given marketing messages from the company.
Despite a $1 billion repair charge for all faulty XBOX 360s, Windows and Office managed to raise Microsoft’s revenue to the $50 billion mark. Their fourth-quarter profit was a hefty $3.04 profit. Though the XBOX charge took 8c off every share, it left shareholders with 31c a share, compared to 28c last year.
Google has announced that it has acquired ImageAmerica, a company that builds high resolution images from aerial imagery.
The Clayton, Missouri based company has previously provided images for both Google Maps and Earth, including the black and white images of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
According to Mashable, and we have verified it, that MySpace has been replacing every single ‘i’ with .. (two small full stops) no matter where you are. The only place where it won’t get censored is where the title is.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian equivalent to the Federal Trade Commission in the US, has now launched legal action on Google and the Trading Post, which is owned by Telstra under the Sensis brand.
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