Ebay beat the Street’s expectations for Q2 earnings, reporting profits of 40 cents a share (or $530.2 million) on revenues of $2.2 billion. Analysts expected 30 cents a share with revenue at $2.1 billion, Net income increased by 18 percent (excluding Skype) from the same quarter in 2009, and revenue rose by 6 percent from last year.
Similar to last quarter, PayPal’s business seems to boost… → Read More
Design, engineering and entertainment software juggernaut Autodesk has agreed to acquire Illuminate Labs, a privately held maker of lighting technology for game development headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The company’s Beast middleware solution and Turtle plug-in for Autodesk Maya software enable faster iteration on a game’s creative intent, and more realistic in-game lighting.
Terms of… → Read More
This is what I like to see, homebrew space equipment. It’s a spacesuit that was invented by the two gentlemen at Final Frontier Design, one that made its debut at the Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology in New York last week. (Wonder why we weren’t invited?) Besides merely looking neat, it provides all the protection and functionality of a Nasa spacesuit, but only costs about one-fifth of what… → Read More
By now, everyone in the U.S. is aware of the rumor that the iPhone may be coming to Verizon’s network later this year or early next year. But there’s nothing stating that the iPhone would then only be on AT&T and Verizon at that point. What if the plan is to roll out the device to all of the major carriers? One of those is T-Mobile, which “a highly placed source” tells Cult of Mac is “very… → Read More
Over the last few years, the web has shown a thirst for time-sensitive deals that offer premium goods at steep discounts. Woot’s one-a-day model has proven immensely popular (Amazon just acquired the company last month), and Groupon has quickly grown into a phenomenal hit. Now AppSumo is looking to tap into the success of these models, but with a twist: it offers deals on premium software and web… → Read More
I got my Millenium Falcon six-string Bought it down on Tatooine Played ’til my fingers bled It was summer of ’69 Me and some guys from school Had a Band and we tried real hard Mario quit and Chewie got married I shoulda’ known we’d never get far → Read More
MailSuite, the unified in-box, has added some nifty Twitter integration that makes it possible to receive and reply to @replies and Direct Messages (DM) via email. There’s also support for multiple Twitter accounts and the ability to include attachments and override Twitter’s 140 character limit, in which replies are truncated, adding a link to the full text and any attachment.
Adding an… → Read More
Yesterday at the New Music Seminar in New York, the streaming music recommendation service Pandora announced that they now have 60 million listeners registered. This is up from 50 million in April, and 40 million in December. Before that, it took them all over 2009 to double in size from 20 million to 40 million. In other words, the service is now adding users faster than ever.
And that shouldn’t… → Read More
Don’t go wilding in the streets of Detroit or anything, but Panasonic just released five new cameras including the much-anticipated LX5, a low-light point and shoot with Leica glass. They also released the TS10, a ruggedized point and shoot, and the FZ40, a 24x ultrazoom camera with HD video recording. The cameras should be available in August-September. Press releases and images after the… → Read More
It was just over a year ago that Adeo Ressi launched the Founder Institute, a very early stage startup incubator. Since then they’ve expanded the program well beyond Silicon Valley.
Affiliated programs are now available in 11 cities around the world – with Houston opening up now. The Houston semester will be run locally by the Managing Partners of Enterprise Builders. Applications for the Houston… → Read More
Some Batman news, if only because Batman is the best comic book superhero of all time. I will debate this all day if need be, Lord knows I have nothing else going on in my life. The news this morning is that the next Batman movie, tentatively called Batman 3 (but you know the final name will be something like Batman: Vengeance), will feature The Riddler as the main villain. → Read More
Google has hired well known music attorney Elizabeth Moody to assist them with negotiations with music labels and other rights holders for their upcoming Google Music service.
Moody was previously with Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes and specialized in digital music. Name partner Fred Davis, broadly known for representing nearly every digital music service over the last few years, recently… → Read More
Skype has always sort of served as one of the poster children for why iOS just had to allow applications to run in the background. I mean, come on: being able to avoid gobbling up my precious minutes without having to keep the application open all the time just so I don’t miss calls? Yes. Yes please. Its been a few weeks since iOS launched to the multitasking masses — and today, the… → Read More
Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly is giving its enterprise customers a new analytics dashboard today, allowing large publishers to better track the distribution of their links on a per-story basis. The benefits of the new dashboard are obvious — publishers and companies with large presences on Twitter and Facebook can use the dashboard to see which of their articles and social media… → Read More
Well, that was a fun run. Google is now officially done selling the Nexus One. It’s not that big of a surprise as it broke last week that Google’s last shipment was en-route. After the inventory dried up, they were done selling cell phones directly to consumers. Well, at least they were done for now. It’s hard to say that Google will never do it again, but it probably won’t happen for some time. → Read More
One hundred percent nonsense. That’s the only way I can describe the story going around talking about how teens are “getting high” while I-Dosing. I tried using I-Doser nearly three years ago, and let me tell you something: it’s bunk. Well, the science is there, but don’t equate it to “getting high.” Do not call your congressman trying to get it banned or whatever because you’d… → Read More
Microsoft has come up with its own internal version of a price comparison between motion control platforms. Of course, Microsoft shows their way being the cheapest route to motion control, but it really depends on how you’re playing the game. → Read More
American Airlines announced today that it is buying 35 Next-Generation Boeing 737-800s to replace aging planes in its fleet. These aircraft are 35% more fuel efficient than the MD80 aircraft that they are replacing – which saves about 800,000 gallons of fuel per aircraft per year, the airline reports.
The new planes will be equipped with bigger overhead storage bins, and more AC power ports among… → Read More
You must remember the cameras Samsung introduced last year with the screen on the front, right? Yes, they still exist — and they’re being updated. We were skeptical at the launch, and reviews weren’t exactly flattering, but maybe this new generation will set everything aright.
Well — it doesn’t seem like that’s the case, actually, now that I look at the press release. But the front… → Read More
I’ve been tracking Budapest-based Joobili since we covered them way back at Seedcamp Warsaw in March last year. Now the European travel content and trip planning site has won an undisclosed round of Angel funding led by organizers of the Sziget Festival, one of Europe’s largest outdoor music festivals, and online media executive Zoltan Kovacs.
Joobili’s original seed investor Esther Dyson… → Read More
Zattikka, the browser and mobile games company, has announced that its raised $5.5m through its parent company Expedite 5, Inc.
The new round of funding is being led by Notion Capital and a group of private investors which include Harald Ludwig, co-chair of Lionsgate Entertainment. Ludwig will also join Zattikka’s Board.
The London-based startup previously received seed funding from Atomico… → Read More
Star Wars fans? Borders wants your money today. The retailer is currently running a 50% off a bunch of their Star Wars merchandise. This includes CDs, movies, and of course the extended universe books. Not everything is on sale, but there are at least a few hundred Star Wars items 50%. DealNews even found an coupon for in-store items. (Yes, I know, the video above has nothing to do with Borders… → Read More
On July 13 France launched France.fr, a multilingual tourism information website. The site went down almost immediately. It’s now been eight days and the site remains down. The first error message said the site was a victim of its own success, but that message was updated to a more mundane “problem configuring our servers.” That same message is now translated into four other languages.
I’ve got… → Read More
I don’t think I need to point out that when you travel with an iPad and keyboard, both of course in different cases, it’s more hassle and expensive than a standard notebook. I don’t; you probably already know that, but no matter, here’s a set of cases from Waterfield that will house your small Apple iPad keyboard nicely anyway. → Read More
Microsoft, perhaps sensing that it was losing control of the story, has gone on record as saying, essentially, yes, the Kinect will initially be aimed at a “casual” gaming audience, but after launch we will re-confirm our support for you “hardcores.” It will take around 18 months for more hardcore-friendly—think Halo and the like—to show up. → Read More
Apprupt, the first affiliate network for mobile applications, is taking a baby step towards internationalisation today with the appointment of Jon Mundy a former sales strategy manager at BSkyB. He’ll develop the business in the UK out of their new London office. It’s a natural move as the UK has possibly the hottest mobile market in Europe.
Mundy will be pushing out the apprupt publisher… → Read More
This is no surprise to anyone even remotely following the company, but Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg just made things official on the company’s blog: the social network is now 500 million members strong.
According to Zuckerberg, the milestone was hit this morning, which I suspect may be disregarding the exact time just a little. → Read More
Exclusive – SeatGeek, one of the finalists of TechCrunch50 2009, has raised $1 million in Series A funding led by Founder Collective and joined by NYC Seed.
The funding brings SeatGeek’s total investment to over $1.5 million, and it intends to use the new capital to hire more engineers and business developers. → Read More
Well, well, well. Yesterday morning I wrote a quick thing about the U.S. Navy and Raytheon’s successful laser attack in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Several hours later DRUDGE~! runs the same story way up top, in bold red font. The point is: I beat Drudge. Yes! I bring this up because, in the hours after I wrote the story a whole bunch of pictures came out that are worth your time gawking… → Read More
With the search giant’s growing influence in Washington, it comes of no surprise that Google is pouring more money into lobbying efforts. For the second quarter of 2010, Google spent $1.34 million in lobbying efforts, up 41 percent from the same quarter last year. The number is on par with the amount Google spent on government relations in the first quarter this year, in which the search giant… → Read More
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