Farewell to Guitar Hero and the value of Twitter

New technologies of reading and we talk in cyberspace. Activision is only produce content for games that already exist.

Video from popular music game Guitar Hero is no longer produce, six years after its release, Activision Blizzard reported the company that created it.

"Games music popularity is declining," said society leaving 500 of its 7,000 employees.

It will develop also no longer games DJ Hero and True Crime.

The company said that it is very expensive for the manufacture of these games by high charges payable by copyright and expensive which makes hardware (guitars, microphones, batteries) to take advantage.

However, stated that they will continue development of content for free games already on the market.

Twitter would be in talks with Facebook and Google about a possible investment in the company.

The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal reported that companies like Google and Facebook have held preliminary discussions with Twitter an investment or acquisition possible.

According to the daily negotiations have not gone far enough, but yes have to light on the value of the social network for microblogs would be between $ 8 billion and $ 10 billion.

It is estimated that Twitter has achieved net profit of 45 million in 2010. In December last after receiving $ 200 million from $ round the value of the social network has been established in 3,700 million.

The social network of Latin America "voice" has drawn attention in some countries.

Technological projects back and forth, and some occasionally generated a strong conversation on social networks. This week has played their turn Blaving and WhatsApp, given that both were oriented subjects (trends) on Twitter.

Blaving is an Argentine-brasileño - site in beta phase, which is similar to Twitter, but instead of displaying text, users exchanging voice messages. The site operates web and applications for mobile phones.

WhatsApp is an instant messaging service for Smartphones which allows to exchange text messages and make the group discussions, regardless of whether the user has an iPhone, Android, Nokia or Blackberry.

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