Marketplace Tech for Friday, August 30, 2013
A famous peace-keeping technology turns 50-years-old today -- the so-called "red phone" that connected Moscow and Washington. The phone apparently wasn’t actually red, but it did change the Cold War. And, it’s time again to play our tech news numbers game, Silicon Tally. Today's contestant is behind some mobile video games you've probably seen before: Farmville and Pac-Man for iPhone, the insanely popular Mafia Wars, and more.
A famous peace-keeping technology turns 50-years-old today — the so-called “red phone” that connected Moscow and Washington. The phone apparently wasn’t actually red, but it did change the Cold War. And, it’s time again to play our tech news numbers game, Silicon Tally. Today’s contestant is behind some mobile video games you’ve probably seen before: Farmville and Pac-Man for iPhone, the insanely popular Mafia Wars, and more.
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