2011
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is arriving at many a home this week, and as expected with a launch of this magnitude, there are a few bugs yet to be squashed. Some…
PayPal’s Send Money App, and Why Facebook Never Built P2P Credits Payments
PayPal relaunched a peer-to-peer payment Facebook app today that some news outlets are misinterpreting as a partnership between the two companies. I’ve confirmed with Facebook that it’s not. It’s just…
Yahoo’s Iconic SF Billboard Comes Down After Outlasting 4 CEOs
Yahoo’s famous, long-standing billboard on the San Francisco skyline is coming down. In two weeks, the space will be available for some other company, according to a report in the…
Google Overhauls Android.com With A Focus On Consumer Friendliness
Android is growing up. The platform that began its life as something built for the anti-iPhone crowd is quickly evolving into something built for everybody. Today, Google has overhauled Android’s…
Keen On… The Big Lesson America Can Learn From China (TCTV)
Sometimes, it’s the soft spoken guys who throw the biggest bombs. At this week’s Techonomy conference, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook was pretty radical in his economic and political analysis. Arguing…
Review: The Nook Tablet Is A Real Android Slate In Ereader’s Clothing
In the mad rush to push out more and more Android slate products, Amazon and Barnes & Noble are like a calm port in the storm. Their devices are touted…
I consider myself a pretty understated guy when it comes to attire, so when Ogio offered to send me the Squadron RSS in Celebrity White, I surprised myself my taking…
Flirty Turkish Users Propel Social Network Interconnections
Turkey has been named the most social and most flirtatious country in the world by a new study by social network Tagged. Turks, and specifically Turkish men, sent the most friend requests…
Samsung Denies Apple’s Request For Records Of Service Calls Confusing Their Products
“You’re a copycat!” “No, you’re the copycat!” Apple and Samsung have entered the pre-trial discovery period in their dispute over whose smartphones and tablets violate whose intellectual property. In hopes…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Also Comes Out Against SOPA
While SOPA supporters have tried to present the copyright bill as a bipartisan effort to stop the “theft” of copyrighted material, the bipartisan opposition has been building fast this week.…
3D Printing Startup Shapeways Raises $5.1 Million, Plans NYC Production Facility
Of all the cool things going on in technology, one of my favorites is 3D printing. It’s got such a futuristic quality to it: input a digital schematic, and you…
Bag Week Review: Incase Andy Warhol Shoulder Bag (Color: Banana)
What is it? Whether your apartment walls are covered in pop art or not, this Shoulder Bag from Incase’s Andy Warhol collection brings an entirely new sense of style to…
Yelp Files For IPO To Raise $100 Million
Local recommendation site Yelp has finally filed an S-1 to IPO, wanting to raise $100 million. The site generated $58.4 million revenue in the first nine months of 2011, 80%…
Modern Warfare 3 Sets New Sales Record: $775 Million In Five Days
If anyone has been thinking that we’ve deliberately avoided the Modern Warfare launch in favor of Battlefield 3 stuff, well, I wouldn’t blame them, but it really wasn’t on purpose.…
Postcard On The Run Raises $750k, Makes An Investor Out Of Selena Gomez
Oh, you didn’t hear? Tech investments are all the rage in celebrity circles these days. Purse-sized puppies? Meh. Crazy outfits at awards shows? Over it! Participation in an early stage…
Yext PowerListings Now Powers 30,000 Local Listings
About six months ago, local advertising company Yext made a big bet on a new market. It’s pay-per-call business was growing at a rapid clip, but was limited in its…
Fenwick: Venture Firms Put More Money Into Startups At Higher Valuations In Q3
Venture capital firms put more money into US startups at higher valuations in the third quarter of this year versus the second, according to a new report out today by…
Keen On… Roger McNamee: How Occupy Wall St Changes Everything
Roger McNamee, the co-founder of $1.9 billion fund Elevation Partners, wants to occupy himself. When I talked with him earlier this week at Techonomy, he expressed the not now uncommon…
Ice Cream Sandwich Prompts Users To Join Google+, Enter Credit Card Information
One seemingly minor change that Google has introduced in the new version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, could actually have just as large an impact on the company as the…
My First Day With The Galaxy Nexus And Ice Cream Sandwich (This Is Really Big)
The Galaxy Nexus is big. There, we’ve got that out of the way (don’t worry, we’ll revisit it shortly). Now onto the more important news: Ice Cream Sandwich, the new…
Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel Put $1.7M In The YouTube For Businesses, Vidyard
Y Combinator-backed Vidyard, a ‘YouTube for businesses’, has raised $1.65 million from Softech VC, Jawed Karim (Co-Founder of YouTube), Y Combinator, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, iNovia Capital, Paul Buchheit, Vivi…
Wish Your MacBook Transformed Into An iPad? One Day It Might
Don’t you sometimes wish you could just rip the display off your MacBook and use it as an iPad? OK, maybe that’s a bit violent, but it’s still worth dreaming…
Amazon just entered the tablet market this week with its Kindle Fire. But this time next year, it could be introducing its own smartphone. A research report put out this…
Tampa’s New TechStars Network Incubator, Gazelle Lab, Launches 6 Companies
It’s Demo Day for Gazelle Lab, the new Tampa Bay-based TechStars Network member, which is seeing its first class of startups launch this morning in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. The…
Google Shares Galaxy Nexus Specs, Tutorials, And The New Commercial
The wait for the Galaxy Nexus is finally over in some parts of the world, but those of us in the States are still waiting for our turn with our…
Cloud Storage Platform Box Debuts Developer Platform /Bin; $2M Fund To Invest In The Enterprise
After raising a whopping $81 million in funding from a group of all star investors, including Salesforce, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson; cloud…
FanBridge’s New Facebook Brand Page Omni-App Combines Functionality From 12 Partners
Facebook Pages can host as many applications as they want, but unfortunately, most visitors never click away from the single default landing tab. To let its brand and band clients…
Sibblingz Debuts New Version Of Game Creation Platform, Spaceport
Multi-device social gaming platform Sibblingz is debuting a new version of its game creation platform Spaceport. For background, Spaceport, allows game developers to build a game once, using Javascript, and…
Fond as we are of Microsoft’s touchscreen Surface table and all of the kooky things people have made it do, its replacement has come one step closer to seeing the…
Angie’s List Shares Pop Over 30 Percent To Open $18 Per Share, Valued At Nearly $900M
Angie’s List, which offers consumers a way to review and rate doctors, contractors and service companies on the Web, priced its IPO at the high end of the range, at…
