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March 2, 2010
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New investment bank Code Advisors has picked up some senior banking expertise with the hiring of Chris Scarborough, an 11-year vet of Credit Suisse with significant Silicon Valley tech-media experience. Scarborough doesnt have a formal titlethe next-gen firm co-founded by for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, Fred Davis and Michael Marquez is playing down titles for the most partbut Smith tells me he will assemble the analyst-associate team. Scarborough also will be working with clients on busin...
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Weeks after Macmillan CEO John Sargent told Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) the publisher was switching to the agency model for e-book salesprompting the e-tailer to black out its e-books for several days,...
Mitch Lazar, Yahoos European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years.
Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Ya...
March 1, 2010
GigaOM
Twitter today gave seven real-time search and discovery companies that range from funded startups to part-time, one-man operations access to 100 percent of its tweets. Twitters Firehose is a valuable asset; the company has made partners like Googl...
Its hard out there for a systems vendor that is, if the death of Liquid Computing, an Ottawa, Ontario-based startup that until last week was building a unified computing box to help manage the virtualization of the data center, is any indication....
February 7, 2010
GigaOM
Some of the lessons learned from the commercials during Super Bowl 2010: Beer solves lots of problems, women hold men back from their dreams and this year, pants are optional. But there were also some highlights for the web video world.
Flo TV pushed their mobile TV viewing device to hen-pecked men dragged out shopping to the game, but they also got behind will.i.ams My Generation remix.
Google had a relatively clever ad in the second half pushing their search ability but, um, did anyone need to be tol...
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January 12, 2010
GigaOM
Google, earlier today made a bold decision it stopped censoring results on Google.cn, its Chinese destination. The decision, was a direct consequence of a sophisticated attack on its infrastructure as attempts were made to penetrate Gmail accou...
My husband once calculated that $131 of our taxes will go toward the $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money. As far as Im concerned that would be money well spent on our part, because as a telecommuter and as someone whose work is dependent on t...
January 4, 2010
GigaOM
With 197 million augmented reality-capable smartphones set to be in the global market by 2012, up from nearly 91 million in 2010, the building blocks are falling into place for people to merge digital information with their view of the physical wo...
January 2, 2010
GigaOM
Google is set to sell its own Android phone, the Nexus One, and jkOnTheRun this week collected all the details about it here. The company is holding a press event about Android next week that could include confirmation about the phone. The device ...
Call it the juggernaut factor. Every year, dazzled by Google’s massive presence on the web, someone offers a wildly bullish prediction for its stock in the coming year. Wired pluckily predicted Google at $1,000 in 2007. (It peaked at $747.) A ye...
As a blogger, I spend most of my time writing. But its time spent reading thats most satisfying. Heres a short (and by no means a complete) list of 10 articles that encapsulate the art of the startup. Most were published during 2009, and I found them educational and full of practical tips that weve applied to our business. Theyve also helped me think differently about startups and entrepreneurship. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did.
What Startups Are Really Like by Paul Graham: This has to be t...
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August 17, 2009
TechCrunch
Lets not beat around the bush: The G1 was not a very good phone. Thats not to say Android isnt a good mobile OS — it is, its just that the initial hardware built to run the OS didnt do it justice. It was poorly designed and had a fairly cheap feel...
Oh, this is rich. The Nambu Network, owners of the URL-shortening service Tr.im announced today that the service will go open source on or before September 15 of this year. Thats odd since the service has now gone from completely shutting down, to...
A Manifesto
I believe in Twitter. I believe people want to use it and that it is useful to them. Im less sure of its susceptibility to monetization, but then again, I cover cameras and ramen-bots, not internet business. Still, since Im coming dow...
As more details emerge about the MySpace-iLike acquisition, all sorts of interesting observations and questions pop up. A few thoughts:
The Facebook Angle
This is by far the most interesting angle to the deal. iLike is the most popular music appli...
Local news always seems to get the short end of the stick, both in terms of coverage and advertising dollars. And as the entire newspaper industry continues to struggle for survival, the prospects for local news looks particularly bleak. It jus...
Live video streaming service Ustream is being sued by Square Ring, Inc, a boxing promotional company owned by professional boxer Roy Jones, Jr. The suit alleges that Ustream has committed massive and blatant copyright infringement by allowing 2,3...
The aptly named Bryan Appleyard had an interesting profile in the Times of London. He wrote about Steve Jobs without actually being allowed to talk to the man and resulting tale sounds more like a Mark Oliver profile of the Bilderbergers than a f...
Even though they havent really found a big audience yet, hyperlocal news sites are becoming a hot commodity. In June, AOL bought Patch for $7 million, and today MSNBC acquired EveryBlock. EveryBlock was previously funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation, which ended in June. The five employees will now work at MSNBC.
The price was not disclosed, but like the Patch acquisition, it is not an audience acquisition. Rather it is a hyperlocal platform play which MSNBC can now plug into its site and push...
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We're a few weeks away from the official release of Snow Leopard and I'm here to tell you things are really heating up in the realm of Exchange Support, OpenCL, and being able to click on an icon to make all of its windows appear.
Sorry. I'm just...
BlogTalkRadio is a popular podcasting site with about 4.5 million listeners a month. And its no stranger to large-scale live podcasts, as some pull in more than 20,000 listeners while theyre going on. But on Wednesday, the service is likely to see...
Benchmark Capital is investing in Danish startup Zendesk, and led a $6 million B round of funding. Benchmarks rock star partner Peter Fenton is joining the board.
Zendesk just raised money in May in an A round from Charles River Partners, which...
MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, weve confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpaces first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 20...
We first broke the news about Dell releasing a smartphone exclusively for the Chinese market eight days ago. Some pieces of information on the so-called Mini 3i leaked a few days after, and today the Android device finally saw the light of day d...
We'll probably have some more details on this later today, but we're able to spill some of it now seeing as much of it just went live on Samsung's own site.
If you haven't been keeping up with all the latest in Samsung news, here's what you nee...
Its less than two months old, and GDGT is already getting some high profile attention, and maybe even a few acquisition sniffs.
One of our reliable sources told us today that they had reason to believe both CBS/CNET and Amazon were considering ac...
Wakoopa tracks your desktop application usage in order to recommend new software, games and web applications. It has two main groups of users: professionals and hedonists. The professionals are using it to track their working hours, while hedonist...
Last month, our post about MySpace debuting Pearl Jams new single turned into a debate over who could rightly claim to be the true kings of grunge. Regardless of where you stand on that, lets agree that Pearl Jams new album is starting to sound gr...
Having witnessed the extent to which humans are involved in transcribing messages for SpinVox (the voicemail to text service), I have become concerned about the privacy of my data and personal communications. Although Ive now cancelled my SpinVox ...
A team of Yahoo veterans who built its behavioral targeting advertising technology are publicly launching a hybrid ad network today called Rocket Fuel, which theyve tested over the past year with major brands including Nike, Dell, Microsoft, and...
August 12, 2009
MobileCrunch
J.D Power and Associates just issued Volume 2 of their Wireless Customer Care report, which runs from January to June of 2009.
Its a big three-way tie this time around, with T-Mobile, Alltel, and Verizon all taking a victory lap. ATT follows beh...
CrashCorp, the joint venture between former Digg Lead Architect Joe Stump, and former co-founder of Socialthing, Matt Galligan, have released two videos of a proof-of-concept app developed for the iPhone.
After speaking Matt Galligan, he mentione...
Lets say you hate the iPhone. Maybe its because the plans are too damned expensive. Maybe its because its because Apples app approval process is twelve kinds of terrible. Maybe its because its taken over all of your favorite gadget blogs for the past 3 years.
Whatever reason you have for disliking Cupertinos little flamewar generator, you dont hate it as much as this guy.
Like others, he decided he was done with the iphone. Unlike others, however, he didnt just cram it into a sock drawer and forget about i...
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Didnt buy Metal Gear Solid Touch the first time round? Good, because Konami just dropped the price by $5. Yup, its now $2.99 on that there App Store [iTunes link] for two days only. Once August 15 hits, it goes back to its full price. So if you w...
Fact: That is actually what 3G radio waves look like. Yep, little tiny 3Gs. Crazy coincidence.
You feel that warmth, St. Louis? Thats the feeling of 3G radio waves swimming around your head. Following launches in El Paso, Bakersfield, Thousand Oa...
Welcome to our first ever Talkback Thursday, where we reach out to our readers for feedback on what they want to see. We generally feel that community committees lead to chaos (and that alliteration is amazingly awesome), but we like you guys.
M...
We probably wont be seeing Dells smartphone hit our shores anytime soon, but that doesnt mean it hasnt piqued our interest. I mean, come on: Its Dell, who brings a fresh face to this whole crazy (and stagnating) world of cell phones, and its Andr...
Good news for HTC! The Magic, also known as the MyTouch 3G, has sold a million units, according to Digitimes. I never really liked the look of this thing, but Im sure its a solid phone. Arrington seems to like it, anyway.
I like my G1, but dont t...
Yelp keeps rolling out new iPhone apps with compelling features. In April they released version 2 and added the ability for users to leave reviews on local businesses, a much needed feature since people want to chronicle their experiences as they ...
August 11, 2009
MobileCrunch
This is going to end well, and no one will be upset about this. Also, everything I said in that last sentence is probably wrong.
When Debian developer Joey Hess started tinkering with webOS, he noticed that it was sending something to Palm once a...
Lets say you just finished hacking and cracking your myTouch 3G through the just unveiled rooting process. With the myTouch lagging behind some other in the looks department, your first quest is to retheme it. Youd heard about a Palm Pre skin, wh...
After a few false starts and a handful of hoaxes, the T-Mobile myTouch 3G has been rooted. For those a bit behind the times on their lingo, rooting an Android phone is similar to the concept of jailbreaking an iPhone, in that it gives you full ac...
Microsoft and Nokia announced a broad ranging alliance this morning which will bring Microsoft Office and other productivity software to a Nokia phones. The agreement marks "the first time Microsoft will make Office for non windows mobile phone...
Are you an English WAG? (And if you are, how did you hear about us, lol!) Good news, then, since Sony Ericsson just lifted the veil on this fashiony phone, the Jalou. Ive been pronouncing it J-Lo, like the singer, all morning, so feel free to do ...
So, apparently, Apples Phil Schiller is starting to talk about Apples missteps. After months of silence, one of Apples top executives (and possibly the most public-facing one next to Jobs) has started to reach out to the tech community to help exp...
Im aware studies comparing cell phone charges generally have to be taken with a grain of salt (especially cross-country studies like the following one), but this one coming from the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is pret...
Weve heard real good things about the HTC Touch Pro 2. The 3.6-inch WVGA screen is good, the slide-out keyboard is apparently awesome and HTC once again shipped a great skin for Winmo 6.1. Its just too bad that at $349, its the most expensive han...
It looks like Microsoft and Nokia, beleaguered giants of the mobile industry, are forming an alliance in order to defend against the alternative smartphone onslaught. Details are scarce at the moment, but tomorrow is guaranteed to see us better in...
August 6, 2009
MobileCrunch
We always liked the E71 and E71x, despite their being saddled with a less-than-gorgeous S60 OS. Well, the E72 is out there somewhere, being previewed by some very thorough Russians, and it looks like, in my opinion, that theyve fixed all the wron...
Well go ahead and make it clear, for the sake of those who missed the headline: This post is not something you want to peruse in your cubicle. Well try to keep the post itself pretty clean, but clicking through just about any of the links within ...
You and I can rail like a beplagued Job against the unfairness of the Apple store but do we ever get emails from Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president? John Gruber does.
Gruber got an email from Schiller last night after the SVP talked throug...
John already gave you his “quick look” on the 8520, but a second look never hurts. Take into account the fact that my main phone is the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and you can see why I’m anxious to give you my thoughts on the latest Curve to hit the s...
When Android made its handset debut on the T-Mobile G1 back in October of 2008, a nasty bout of drama between Facebook and Google kept the former from developing on the nascent platform. 9 months later, Facebook took a look at the ever growing ...
Do the prices people are willing to pay for a phone app depend on the device or the type of app? A comparison of July prices in the iPhone App Store and the Android Market by app analytics firm Distimo found that across broad categories such as...
With T-Mobile’s latest Android device, the myTouch 3G, now readily available, Billshrink has done what they typically do and released a fancy comparison chart to help you, the consumer, make the right decision about which device to pick. Despite ...
Let me preface this post by saying that this whole “green movement” is a freaking scam. No company is making it easier for anyone to “go green” and buying a cell phone that’s made with recyclable materials doesn’t do anything for the environment....
What do we have here? The new hotness? mhmm. The HTC Touch Pro 2 is still a while away from being launched but somehow it was placed in front of a camera lens. Overall, it looks great with a clever eatching of the world on the backplate, a 3.5mm ...