Sony has announced an MMO game for Pirate lovers called Pirates of the Burning Sea. This online game is scheduled to launch on Jan. 22 2008, so you have some time yet to anxiously await its arrival. Sony missed the mark on “Talk Like a Pirate” day, eh? You can pre-order the game on October 23rd, and these players will get an invite to the “Pre-Boarding Party” which offers early access to the game 15 days early. During this time, you can level up to 20, and continue characters after the official launch, which includes a monthly ...

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Facebook has hired Blake Chandlee to lead the company’s UK sales team. Chandlee will be leaving his post at Yahoo, where he was serving as Category Development Officer, focused on growing the company’s advertising business with consumer goods companies.

Facebook recently passed MySpace for the social networking lead in the UK, and has announced they will soon be opening an office in London. The company is also rumored to be developing foreign-language versions of its site to help its international expansion.

[via Media Week UK and iMediaConnection]

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A research report from a Wall Street analyst suggests that Yahoo should break up its company into three separate divisions: display advertising, search, and subscription services. According to the Jeffrey Lindsay, who is with Sanford C. Bernstein, the three companies would be worth a combined $54.3 billion, versus the current $37 billion valuation that investors place on the stock. However, the analyst notes that he has no information to suggest a break-up is likely.

While it seems highly improbable, recent news suggests that there might be some merit to such a move. Yahoo just unveiled some major enhancements to its search ...

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Do you find yourself drifting off during conference calls and comparing airfares to Miami instead of paying attention? Apparently, you’re far from alone. A new survey from Bill Me Later and Ipsos Insight reports that more than 12 million Americans admit to shopping online during conference calls at least once in the past year.

Interestingly, the report also found that men are more likely to shop online during calls than women. Additionally, 12 percent of those surveyed were regularly shopping on calls, admitting to doing so more than 10 times in the past year.

Definitely one of those “good ...

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