May 15th, 2012

Facebook Hires Team From Android Photosharing App Dev Lightbox To Quiet Mobile Fears

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Facebook has just closed a deal to hire the all the employees (except for one) from Android photosharing app developer Lightbox, which should reduce worries that mobile will be its downfall. The Lightbox Photos app developed by the 500 Startups company automatically created personal photo blogs from a user’s uploads. But now it will be shut down, has already been stripped from Google’s Play… → Read More

April 27th, 2012

42Floors’ PDA: The War For Talent Among Startups Needs A New Approach. Here’s Why

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Startups do the darndest things. As you may or may not have seen, Y Combinator startup 42Floors made a bold and fairly unprecedented move today — as hiring goes, in any case. 42Floors Co-founder Jason Freedman had been following the work of UPenn sophomore Dan Shipper on Hacker News. The two had chatted a few times by phone and on Twitter, and Freedman was so impressed by the quality of Shipper’s… → Read More