Phone companies are selling your personal data for profit
Some mobile phone service providers have started selling your personal data to the highest bidder, and not just to advertising firms. Such information could be extremely useful to third party companies looking to develop new businesses in your area.
Verizon Wireless recently changed their privacy policy to allow them to track and record location data and web browsing history. The plan is to combine it with other valuable information about their customers including age and gender, aggregate it with millions of other users’ data and sell it to anyone willing to pay for it.
How Free Games Make Money
When a game’s not working, some people quit. Others change the rules.
Three years ago, Howard Marks, best known for resurrecting the financially flailing game maker Activision (nasdaq: ATVI – news – people ) in the early 1990s, snapped up the remaining assets of bankrupt Acclaim Entertainment for $100,000. Now Acclaim is releasing games–charging players nothing to play–and aiming to be profitable within the next 12 months.
