2011
Keen On… Gina Rudan: How To Find Your G-Spot (TCTV)
Did you know that you were a genius? Yes, we are all geniuses, every one of us – at least according to Gina Rudan, the author of Practical Genius: The…
In An Internal HP Email, Meg Whitman Assures webOS’ Best Days Are Still Ahead
HP just took to the wire and announced to the tech world that webOS will live on as an open source project. Shortly thereafter, Meg Whitman informed HP employees about…
Red Robot Labs acquires Supermono, Appirio buys Saaspoint to expand to the UK
Two acquisitions today that were for the most part executed so Silicon Valley companies could buy their way into the UK (and Ireland) market. Freshly funded location-based mobile gaming company…
YouTube Acquires RightsFlow To Help Artists License Music And Make Money
YouTube has just acquired RightsFlow, a startup that manages music licensing and payment services. Launched in 2007, RightsFlow helps online music services, record companies, distributors and artists license music and…
Facebook Speeds Development With “HipHop Virtual Machine”, A 60% Faster PHP Executor
“Consider that many Facebook engineers spend their days developing PHP code in an endless edit-reload-debug cycle. The difference between 8-second and 5-second reloads due to switching from HipHop interpreter to the…
Well, there we have it. After weeks of deliberation, HP CEO Meg Whitman has just announced to all of the company’s employees that HP will make webOS’s underlying code available…
Sir Richard Branson’s Investment In Square Was $3 Million
As we reported in early November, entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group Sir Richard Branson made a personal investment in disruptive mobile payments startup Square. The exact amount of…
Andreessen Says He Has No Plans For “An Operating Role” At Yahoo
VC Marc Andreessen has taken to his personal blog to quell the rumors that he’s in the running for the position of chairman of the board at Yahoo. The rumors…
The new Path app has been out on the iPhone for about a week, and it’s been getting good reviews among the early-adopter set. In this episode of Fly or…
Batch 1.1 Hits The App Store, Now With Even More Personality!
batch, the app that allows you to finally do something productive with all those pics lying around on your phone, has just added it’s very first update to the App…
Samsung Galaxy S II Ad Both Targets And Mocks Apple Fanbois
Sure, I’ve been terrified by the HTC Rhyme commercial, absolutely baffled by a 30-second Motorola Droid Bionic ad featuring two seconds of the Droid Bionic, and I’ve been amused by…
The Meizu MX is an odd duck. A Chinese-only smartphone that may (or may not) be reaching our shores, it’s hard not treating it like an oddity washed up on…
You Can Now “Check In” To Video Games With Playd
Playd is a new mobile application that lets you check in to games the way Foursquare users check in to venues. Actually, the app is more akin to something like Miso,…
If you’re an Aunt, Uncle, Grandfather, Grandmother, Godmother, Godfather, Foster Parent, or just plain old mommy or daddy, you might have some kids on your holiday shopping list. These are…
Meet ePawn Arena: The Screen That Wants To Make Gaming Personal Again
At the risk of sounding a little old-fashioned, ePawn CEO Christophe Duteil thinks that there’s something missing with the way people play games these days. Modern gaming lacks “conviviality” –…
Should I or Shouldn’t I? (start a business)
Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book is I Was Blind But…
Mobile ‘Edutainment’ App For Kids Pluto Games Raises $500K From YouWeb And Others
Pluto Games, a mobile ‘edutainment’ platform for kids, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from incubator YouWeb and angel investors including co-founder and chairman of Silver Lake Dave Roux; Brett…
T-Mobile To YouMail: We Told You About This A Month Ago
Yesterday something strange happened. YouMail, a visual voicemail app with millions of downloads, was pulled from the Android Market. Confused, YouMail reached out to Google about what the dealio was,…
Logostream Groups Apps By Brands For Easier Discovery
App discovery company AppsFire is debuting a new iOS application today called Logostream, which offers a curated view of the iTunes application store. The app provides users with an easy…
Apple has lost a preliminary injunction filed by Motorola Mobility over a wireless-related patent. That’s not something we’re hearing a lot of these days, but it seems to be the…
Barnes & Noble Has Shipped One Million Nook Tablets, Industry Report States
With all the hype around the Kindle Fire it’s easy to forget about the Nook Tablet. The other budget Android tablet is zipping along nicely according to industry watchdog Digitimes.…
Local Recommendations App Alfred Gets A Whole New Look For Its Android Debut
Amid talks of a Groupon acquisition, the smart local recommendations app Alfred has arrived on Android. Alfred serves up personalized suggestions for nearby restaurants, coffee shops, bars and nightclubs using…
Sean Parker: “This Election, Social Media Will Determine The Outcome”
Every time Sean Parker goes onstage, someone asks him the inevitable question, “Where is the social web going.” Today at Le Web, where he was interviewed alongside VC Shervin Pishevar…
Amazon Prime Instant Video Now Streaming Glee, Sons Of Anarchy
Amazon Prime Video just got a shot of show tunes in the arm as the retailer just announced an extended licensing agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. Exact terms…
KOBOT: Japanese Company Shows Transformable, Smartphone-Controlled E-Cars (Video)
Japan-based Kowa Tmsuk may just be ten months old and just have five employees (it’s a joint venture between two larger companies), but it seems the company is set to…
Serial Entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda On Angel Investing, Brazil And Russia
Serial Internet entrepreneur and angel investor Fabrice Grinda took the stage at Le Web this morning to share his thoughts on investing in Russia, Brazil and other emerging markets and…
Nokia Starts Shipping Lumia 710 To Asia, Russia; Priced 270 Euros Without Taxes
Nokia this morning announced that it has started shipping its stylish, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango-powered smartphone Lumia 710 to customers in Taiwan (where it is sold alongside the Lumia 800).…
Lattice Semiconductor Acquires Chipmaker SiliconBlue For $62 Million In Cash
Lattice Semiconductor this morning announced that it is to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies, which develops mobile device solutions for the consumer handheld market. Lattice Semi will pay approximately $62 million in…
Investor Group Buys Web Security Company Blue Coat For $1.3 Billion In Cash
Blue Coat, which specializes in Web security and WAN optimization solutions, has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by San Francisco-based PE firm Thoma Bravo in a…
Red Robot Labs Acquires Supermono, Appirio Buys Saaspoint To Expand To The UK
Two acquisitions today that were for the most part executed so Silicon Valley companies could buy their way into the UK (and Ireland) market.Freshly funded location-based mobile gaming company Red…
