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Six Apart Cuts Staff by 8%

Six Apart reduced the size of its full time staff by around 8% and are making some organizational changes. In 2008, Six Apart welcomed almost 90 new people and grew to a company of over 200 employees. It also launched Six Apart Services, Six Apart Media, Blogs.com, Movable Type Open Source and MT Pro, a suite of TypePad-powered products, including Blog It, Blog Link, the TypePad iPhone app, and TypePad AntiSpam, and reached the final stage of the migration of TypePad onto a new platform. Some of the organizational changes being made are: creating Six Apart "Genius" group, growing Six Apart services, and creating one hosted technology team. Management has agreed to take a 15% salary cut as part of the cost cutting measures.

Six Apart Gobbles Up And Shuts Down Pownce

Blog tech and advertising company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging platform Pownce for an undisclosed sum, VB reports. But don’t expect Pownce, which lets users broadcast short messages (including videos, photos and mp3s) to be embedded into any of Six Apart’s current blogging tools—at least not in its current form—as Six Apart is pulling the plug on the service as of Dec 15. Pownce’s lead developers Leah Culver and Mike Malone will likely take on similar roles within Six Apart, and its technology will be pulled into Six Apart’s overall infrastructure.

Six Apart Gobbles Up And Shuts Down Pownce

imageBlog tech and advertising company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging platform Pownce for an undisclosed sum, VB reports. But don’t expect Pownce, which lets users broadcast short messages (including videos, photos and mp3s) to be embedded into any of Six Apart’s current blogging tools—at least not in its current form—as Six Apart is pulling the plug on the service as of Dec 15. Pownce’s lead developers Leah Culver and Mike Malone will likely take on similar roles within Six Apart, and its technology will be pulled into Six Apart’s overall infrastructure.

ART - Argent - Unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended

ART - Argent - Unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended 30 September 2008 and dividend declaration Argent Industrial Limited Reg no 1993/002054/06 (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) ("Argent" or "The Group") Share code: ART & ISIN code: ZAE000019188 Unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended 30 September 2008 Financial Highlights - REVENUE UP 23.7% - ATTRIBUTABLE EARNINGS UP 12.6% - ATTRIBUTABLE EARNINGS per share UP 4.8% - HEADLINE EARNINGS UP 18.0% - HEADLINE EARNINGS per share UP 9.8% - GEARING 28.6% ABRIDGED CONSOLIDATED Unaudited Unaudited Audited INCOME STATEMENT six months six months year ended for the six months ended 30 Sept 2008 30 Sept 2007 31 Mar 2008 30 September 2008 R 000 Revenue 1,085,427 877,511 1,659,201 -------------------------------------------- Operating profits before financing costs 16

ART - Argent - Unaudited Interim Results for the s

ART ART ART - Argent - Unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended 30 September 2008 and dividend declaration Argent Industrial Limited Reg no 1993/002054/06 (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) ("Argent" or "The Group") Share code: ART & ISIN code: ZAE000019188 Unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended 30 September 2008 Financial Highlights - REVENUE UP 23.7% - ATTRIBUTABLE EARNINGS UP 12.6% - ATTRIBUTABLE EARNINGS per share UP 4.8% - HEADLINE EARNINGS UP 18.0% - HEADLINE EARNINGS per share UP 9.8% - GEARING 28.6% ABRIDGED CONSOLIDATED Unaudited Unaudited Audited INCOME STATEMENT six months six months year ended for the six months ended 30 Sept 2008 30 Sept 2007 31 Mar 2008 30 September 2008 R 000 Revenue 1,085,427 877,511 1,659,201 -------------------------------------------- Operating profits before financing

Six Apart buys Pownce, plans to shut it down on December 15

Pownce was started in June 2007 as a closed beta and was fully released to the public in January 2008. Today it was announced that Six Apart the owners of such services as Live Journal and Typepad will acquire and shut down the service on December 15. Pownce co-creators Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka will stay on as advisers according to Six Apart's blog entry on the acquisition.

Panasonic Reports Second Quarter and Six Month Results

Cost Reductions Led to Favorable Six-Month Earnings - OSAKA, Japan--(Business Wire)-- Panasonic Corporation(1) (Panasonic)(NYSE:PC) today reported its consolidated financial results for the second quarter and six months ended September 30, 2008, of the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2009 (fiscal 2009). (1) As of October 1, 2008, the company changed its name from "Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd." to "Panasonic Corporation." Consolidated Second-quarter Results Consolidated group sales for the second quarter decreased 4% to 2,191.7 billion yen, from 2,285.8 billion yen in the same three-month period a year ago. Explaining the second quarter results, although sales gains were recorded mainly in digital AV products and white goods, total sales declined because sales of information and communication equipment were sluggish and

Pownce pwned apart by Six Apart

One of Twitter’s main competitors, Pownce, started off with a lot of hype but inexorably lost out to Twitter’s charms. Now, it’s new owner Six Apart, will shut the service down, promising “great things” in the future and inviting Pownce users to try Six Apart’s Vox service instead.

Gamestop - US Military Call of Duty World at War Tournament Results

GamingShogun writes, "Several hundred gamers flocked to the Powell Street event, where after 16 planned six-on-six matches, the Marines at 29 Palms won the tie-breaking game to secure bragging rights. David Vonderhaar, Multiplayer Game Design Director for developer Treyarch, was on hand to autograph copies of the game and GameStop gift cards were awarded to tournament participants. Additional prizes were raffled off through the night and GameStop later donated the six Xbox 360 units used in the competition to the 29 Palms base..."

Pownce Social Network To Shut Down

Social-network site Pownce is shutting down, with two of its founders heading off to blogging-software maker Six Apart. Six Apart's CEO says the Pownce team and Six Apart share the same social-blogging vision and are a good fit. Pownce users are being encouraged to join the Vox social-blog service and the TypePad hosted blog service.

Six Apart updates TypePad blogging service

Six Apart has enhanced its TypePad hosted blog publishing service with features that tap into the popularity of individual social profiles and online-activity notification feeds.

Six Apart Updates TypePad Blogging Service

Six Apart has enhanced its TypePad hosted blog publishing service with features that tap into the popularity of individual social profiles and online-activity notification feeds.

Six Apart Updates TypePad Blogging Service

Six Apart has enhanced its TypePad hosted blog publishing service with features that tap into the popularity of individual social profiles and online-activity notification feeds.

Six Apart updates TypePad blogging service

Six Apart has enhanced its TypePad hosted blog publishing service with features that tap into the popularity of individual social profiles and online-activity notification feeds.

Six arrested in hack of French president's bank account

Six people were arrested in France this week suspected of hacking into French President Nicolas Sarkozy's bank account, according to French wire service AFP, citing a source close to the inquiry.

Six Apart's 'Bailout Plan' for Hard-Up Digital Journalists

Media firm Six Apart — the founders and former owners of blog site LiveJournal — has introduced a "bailout plan" for once-pro bloggers that have lost their jobs.

Six Apart Lays Off 8 Percent Of Staff; Management Takes Pay Cut

imageSoftware firm Six Apart, which many major media and publishing companies use to run their blogs and in some cases power their entire Web sites, is laying off 8 percent of its staff—or about 16 employees—and the entire management team will take a 15 percent pay cut. In a blog post, CEO Chris Alden laid out the reasons for the changes, including the fact that the company had grown wildly in this past year (adding nearly 90 new employees) and a need for a new organizational structure to better serve its users in 2009.

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Six-wicket win: Sehwag upstages Pietersen

Virender Sehwag hammered a quickfire 91 to power India to an emphatic six-wicket victory over England in the fifth one-day international here on Wednesday.

Six Apart lays off 8 percent of workforce

The latest bad news to hit was word that blogging software developer Six Apart has laid off about 8 percent of its 200-plus staff. In a post on the company's public blog, CEO Chris Alden announced the cuts, writing, "We are reducing the size of our full-time staff by around 8 percent and are making some organizational changes as we prepare for 2009."

Six Apart CEO Aims To Disrupt Social Networks

How do you transform a Web 1.0 company into a more powerful force in the Web 2.0 gene pool? Why change the rules. That's what CEO Chris Alden and his team at Six Apart are planning for these days.

Six Apart Takes Apart Pownce

Blogging software maker Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging service Pownce...and is shutting it down, giving users two weeks to grab their data.

Six Apart Buys Twitter Clone Pownce, Shuts It Down

leahculver.jpgBlog software company Six Apart is buying Twitter clone Pownce and is shutting it down.

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