Xiang Dong (Mike) Yu is a Chinese employee that worked at Ford Motor Company for about 10 years (1997-2007). Before he left the company, Yu is believed to have stolen about 4,000 confidential documents. Yu has recently been indicted for the crime.
When Yu left Ford, he accepted a job with Foxconn PCE Industry Inc. and possibly passed some of the documents over. Some of the documents were related to system design specifications for Engine/Transmission Mounting Subsystems, Electric Power Supplies, Generic Body Modules, etc. Yu is also believed to have sold the documents to a Chinese automotive company. Yu was arrested at the Chicago O’Hare airport when he exited a flight from China.
Each count could be worth up to a decade in prison. He may also be fined $250,000.
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DanceJam is a website that focuses on videos of people dancing. DanceJam was founded by Geoffrey Arone, Anthony Young, and MC Hammer (Stanley Burrell). According to a TechCrunch source, the company will soon be acquired by Purevideo Networks. TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is an angel investor in DanceJam. The financial details were undisclosed by the source. DanceJam launched around November 2007 and raised $4.5 million in total funding.
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Jack Dorsey is the creator, co-founder, and chairman of Twitter. He had actually built the Twitter service in about 2 weeks. Now he is working on a new project and a source with Engadget has found out what it was. Dorsey is supposedly working on an iPhone and iPod Touch application that uses a dongle for being able to process credit cards. This allows anyone to accept credit card payments on the spot.
The venture has been given the code name “Squirrel.” In the screenshots that Engadget has about the Square system application, there is a domain name on the receipt called squareup.com. After doing a domain name WHOIS search on Squareup.com, there is a registered office in San Francisco listed. And the contact e-mail address is “[email protected].”
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Bulletin keeps you up to date on all of your RSS feeds through Google Reader and comes with offline browsing, plus sharing options for Facebook, Twitter, Delicious.
iTunes Link – Bulletin
On deck: Hocus Pocus
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Get ready for the wacky adventures of Chuck and Benny Bear! This 99 page comic book should keep the kids occupied for a while.
iTunes Link – Hocus Pocus
On deck: Bodhran Drum
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