Zynga CEO: Give Me Back My Shares Or You’ll Fired!

Large companies tend to attract upscale professionals with the expectation of high salaries and also with the option of the company's shares. The producer of games like CityVille and Farmville, Zynga, also uses the same resource. However, it seems, the company's CEO, Mark Pincus, is regretting the decision. And asking the shares back. In fact, requiring - on penalty of dismissal.

On Thursday, 10, The Wall Street Journal reported that Pincus, according to him, handed too many programs to its employees. The number (withheld) would be so great he decided to adopt a far more controversial than nipples: ask for anything back.

In fact, he is not asking for the return of the actions of all employees. A few still keep the - it is speculated that only the board. But a need to return them most - those that the board considered "unworthy" to have them. To determine which employees should make this return, executives from Zynga decided to measure how much influence the activity of that employee in the company's profit.

Who gets a profit shares. Who generates only expense (eg cleaners, receptionists, office staff and even people from engineering) will need to download and return the head actions without complaint. Those who complain, or refuse to return, will be fired. That is, something highly questionable.
The case, however unfair that is, explanation is financial - which, like everything in capitalism, means money. Zynga announced that should go public, launching initial public offerings, and yet according to The Wall Street Journal, the initiative to ask the shares back due to fear of losing large sums in the bag with the offer, if one employee decides to sell their own, turning them into cash.

One of the sources consulted by the newspaper said the company is afraid that happen to Zynga the same has happened to Google in 2004, when the Mountain View company went public and its employees - a cook, you see - resigned company with $ 20 million in his pocket, the sale of shares he received as a bonus. In the case of Zynga the damage would be much higher because the company's capital is much smaller than that of Google (obviously), but proportionately, the percentage of the shares distributed to employees is huge.

According to CNET, after selecting the employees who should return the shares, Pincus is facing a near-riot by their employees, they never imagined they would have to 'compensate' Zynga.

Obviously, besides losing the right money (the shares are worth much, and the IPO should value highly), nobody likes to be pressured with threats of any kind. Two employees have already filed in court to keep the shares: one 'resigned on their own, the other still works there.
Even with this unusual and offensive attitude, Zynga executives assert that this was the best decision to be made for the good of the company. If they will or will not turn against the company, we will only know the progress of the case.

Facebook To Close An Agreement With FTC

Facebook, the largest social network in the world is about to close an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the USA for which the agency will monitor the privacy policy of the company of Mark Zuckerberg. A measure that would come after that country's authorities opened an investigation in 2009 at the company for its data privacy policy.

According advanced Friday The Wall Street Journal, the agreement shall provide that Facebook will need the express consent of its 800 million users before applying "substantial changes retroactively." Indeed, the periodic changes in the management configuration of personal data entered by Facebook have cost the firm strong complaints from users and organizations. Now, with the agreement, Facebook will undertake to submit to an independent audit for 20 years, which, according to The Guardian, facilitate its IPO because it eliminates uncertainties.

On the other hand, Brussels will require major websites that shuffled personal information, such as Facebook and Google, to remove personal information from users who are written off rather than keep all the information. European Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, will recognize "the right to disappear," the Internet in their proposal to amend the data protection directive intends to present in January.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Sold 6.5M Copies

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which is the third chapter of one of history's most famous video game shooter, continues to grind records, until now the amount of total collections should be close to $ 400 million with 6.5 million copies sold in 24 hours between the U.S. and Great Britain.

Considering all the countries in which it is marketed this way, sales would amount to 9.3 million copies: 5 million copies on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and 4 million 300 thousand for the PC.

To celebrate the achievement, even if already not expected, of course, the production company of video game, Activision, which has invested so much in terms of work, time and resources for the fans of the famous saga of war should not remain disappointed.

According to Robert Kotick, Activision CEO of the same, to date sales of the third chapter of Call of Duty would surpass the results achieved by the box office blockbuster movies like "The Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars".

Charlie Miller Test Apple App Store Security And Lost His Developer License

One of the main features of the Apple app store is that each application must be tested and verified before being sold, ensuring that no malicious code will be used.

However, Charlie Miller discovered a way to introduce malicious code and get data and information from apple device using an application that passed all tests of the company.

Miller took advantage of a flaw present in the relationship between applications and the Safari browser to load a code without the user noticing. It created an application called InstaStock, with which the hacker could view the contacts and photos from a phone, play sounds, and even control the vibration of the equipment.

The hacker was announced this discovery to a week before Syscan conference in Taiwan, where it will do a live demonstration of the failure. Apple, however, regret that this information has been made public before talking to them, so they removed the application and revoked his developer license.

Adobe Stop Developing Flash For Mobile Browser

Adobe announced that it leaves the Flash Player development for use in mobile browsers. Thus, the company terminated, unilaterally, in its war with Apple on Internet standards, as the company always refused to block this type of development. The software maker's decision would mean that web developers to stop using their tools to produce Flash videos, websites and applications on mobile browsers.

The iPhone and iPad users whose browsers can not see content created in Flash, can breathe easy because Adobe has announced that it would focus on selling tools for developers that use Internet standards such as HTML5, and that Apple has long promoted.

The late founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, refused to build Flash technology in its mobile browsers because it ensured that offered a lower browsing experience. Adobe then decided to push the Cupertino company to incorporate Flash technology into mobile devices.

But HTML5 was developed because the developers did not want their work was not seen by users of iPhone and the iPad. And apparently, Apple has at last got away with it.

Motorola Corvair Android Tablet PC + Remote Control

Motorola recently launched a multifunctional tablet called Motorola Corvair. Tablet with a 6 inches screen is in addition to functioning like a tablet PC, can also as a remote control.

Motorola Corvair has a special function as remote control Smart TV or Google TV thanks to the features of radio frequency and infrared transmitters in them. By using these two features, this tablet can do that.

In addition, the tablet that has the Android 2.3 OS, there is no complete information related to this tablet. But certainly the tablet is labeled by Motorola as a low cost tablet. There are IR control, and RF4CE and large capacity 4000 mAh battery.

Asus EE Transformer Prime Android Honeycomb

ASUS has just announced its new tablet Eee Pad Transformer Prime, the first solution based on NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Kal-El platform. The SoC with quad-core CPU and companion core, combined with the GeForce graphics chip with 12 stream processors makes its lion's share in this device which also has many other interesting and innovative aspects.

Starting from the panel 10.1-inch Super-IPS+ technology with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, 178-degree viewing angle, Protection "Gorilla Glass" and anti-fingerprint film, to the aluminum shell with a thickness of only 8,3 mm (the thinnest in its class) with a total weight of 586 grams.
NVIDIA Tegra platform quad-core Cortex-A9 running at maximum frequency of 1.4 GHz when it is running a single core or 1.3 GHz with more than one active core, 1GB of memory are matched LPDDR2 and 32 or 64 GB of memory EMMC storage. The tablet, however, provides a micro SD slot to expand storage capacity and has two cameras, one rear 8Mpixel with LED flash capable of recording 1080p video and front with a 1.2 megapixel sensor.

Connectivity is provided by a Wi-Fi 802.11n module and Bluetooth 2.1 with no lack of support for GPS, gyro and micro HDMI. The audio quality was substantially improved compared to the past through the use of technology and broader Sonic Master speaker. The battery 25Wh Lithium-polymer provides up to 12 hours may be extended up to 18 hours with optional docking station. The latter also includes a keyboard, a touchpad, a SD memory card reader and a USB 2.0 connection.

The new tablet ASUS Eee Top Pad Transformer will be available in champagne and black-amethyst finishes. Initially based on Android Honeycomb operating system, will be updated to Android Ice Cream Sandwich in December. The prices in the U.S. market, will be around $499 for the 32GB version and $599 for that to 64GB.