February 2011

It’s hard to “innovate” when you’re a maker of hard discs, but Japanese company Buffalo had an idea: why not offer a model users can stick to the back of…

http://media.ign.com/ev/prod/embed.swf More Dead Island Videos The mom’s kind of hot in a video gaming sort of way. And yes, this video is NSFW. Or your kids. Or your mom. It’s…

The original HM2 SV was limited to only 25 pieces. That is a really low amount given how popular the watch was – and it was popular for good reason.…

We were in Cairo the week before Tunisia fell, meeting with dozens of Egyptian technology start-ups on behalf of the US State Dept’s Global Entrepreneurship Program. The quality of their…

We all knew this day would come, and we all knew this would happen in Japan: robot maker Vstone has announced what it says is the first full marathon [JP]…

Here’s yet more proof that plain ol’ text messages aren’t going away any time soon. The recent Spring Festival in China (the local name for what’s often referred to as…

At least a couple times a week we get tipped about Google testing a new “social search” feature. The truth is that the “social circle” results that everyone is pointing…

Exclusive – Lendio is a new startup that aims to help businesses secure loans with banks and other lending sources by mean of an online matching platform. The service hasn’t…

Heard about ccLoop? No, probably not. It’s a new stealth startup founded by repeat (and very successful) entrepreneur Michael Wolfe. The company came out of Wolfe’s stint as an entrepreneur…

In the third quarter of 2010, BrightCove and Tube Mogul’s Online Video & The Media Industry report showed that Facebook passed Yahoo to become the No. 2 source of traffic…

ClairMail, a company that creates a mobile banking and payments platform, is rolling out a new product for financial institutions today—a mobile fraud management solution. ClairMail helps power mobile banking…

While Google’s YouTube is reportedly in talks to buy Web content producer Next New Networks, the New York-based startup has just filed with the SEC in relation to $19.4 million…

Tradeshift, which describes itself as the “Skype for invoicing”, has integrated PayPal into its free e-invoicing platform for customers in the UK and the US. Now customers will be able…

Oh The Daily! Rupert Murdoch’s Sisyphean battle with the impassable forces of the Internet really reminds me of those humans playing Watson on Jeopardy. It’s really hard to figure out…

DOTKLOK: A Clock Made Of Dots This Phineas And Ferb CD Boombox Is For Kids And/Or Dads Interview With Halfbot Over Their App Store IP Theft Of “The Blocks Cometh”…

Aside from Sarah and Paul’s strange Bieber-based attempts at SEO, I haven’t noticed many changes around here since some AOL people and then Arianna Huffington became my uber bosses. I…

Yesterday, at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Googler and PayPal founder Max Levchin and Benchmark GP Bill Gurley discussed “game-changing technology” and the future of…

Vitrue, a social media marketing company, has raised $17 million in Series C financing led by Scale Venture Partners and Advent Venture Partners with existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Comcast…

Wonga, the short-loans company which uses a realtime platform to assess users applications instead of people, has raised a significant £73 million ($117 million) funding round – actually a Series…

JC Penney gets put in purgatory at Google for link farming. AT&T, Siemens and others are buying SEO links on Forbes and get busted. Employees of these brands may or…

This clever robot is made entirely of K’Nex blocks and a Picaxe 20×2 micro-controller. It can move “autonomously” and solve simple problems when it hits walls and gets under tables.…

Yahoo’s CFO Tim Morse spoke at a Goldman Sachs Investing conference today and was peppered with questions about Yahoo’s Asian assets, which are the bulk of the value of its…

DOTKLOK: Game Time from The Latest Artists on Vimeo. Like the Pong Clock, the DOTKLOK uses an LED array to display the time – and more. Available at Etsy for…

Fon has secured €10 million ($13.5 million) in a new funding round led by Atomico, the VC firm founded by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype. The company markets wifi routers…

Earlier this week we wrote about True Venture’s remarkably non-lemming investment in Orabrush– a seemingly ho-hum company that makes tongue scrapers, but has found all sorts of creative ways to…

There are 365 days each crappy year And work never seems to end in ’em So the annual problem for our generation Is finding a good way to spend ’em…

There we have it. The IBM Jeopardy Challenge has concluded, so what follows is a brief review of what happened tonight. Once again, West Coasties (and anyone else who didn’t…

There’s trouble in Tencent and Groupon’s China group buying joint venture, Gaopeng.com, according to press reports from China. Apparently the site went up for a day, Tencent balked and pulled…

How would you feel if your iPhone 4 burst into flames on your wooden table, fire licking the laquer and the noise scaring your wife and child half to death?…

Cisco has long dominated the enterprise video conferencing world, but Logitech wants to change that. Logitech currently does video conferencing with their own version called the LifeSize video streaming system.…