2013
OMGPOP Team Tried To Buy Back Its Site, But Zynga Killed It Instead
OMGPOP almost got an extra life, but Zynga said ‘game over’. Zynga just finalized plans to shut down OMGPOP, the game developer of Draw Something it acquired for $200 million…
Time.com Hires Design Studio Big Human For This Fall’s Big Relaunch
Time is moving forward with its plans for a major redesign and relaunch of the Time.com website this fall, announcing today that it has hired design studio Big Human. It’s…
Judge Allows Quinn Emanuel To Continue Representing Snapchat In Lawsuit
A judge denied alleged Snapchat co-founder Reggie Brown’s motion to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing Snapchat today. Quinn Emanuel will continue to represent the company as the case moves forward.…
Y Combinator Startup 7 Cups Of Tea Connects People In Need Of Emotional Support With Trained Listeners
It’s almost a cliche to complain about the alienating effects of technology, but the Internet is an amazing resource for combating isolation. Sites and online forums mean people who suffer…
YC-Backed One Month Rails Teaches You How To Build Your Startup While You Learn To Code
If you build it, they will come. But what if you don’t know how to build it? That was the problem facing Mattan Griffel, founder of a new YC-backed startup…
Five U.S. Startups Wanted For U.K. Plc Sales & Marketing Opportunity
The U.K. government’s latest tech-related initiative has political photo opportunity written all over it. Said scheme — The GREAT Tech Awards — is heavy on jingoism (yes that’s GREAT as…
Can Mayer’s Aggressive Acquisition Spree Drive Revenue Growth At Yahoo?
Yahoo continued its acquisition spree last week, picking up RockMelt’s team. The company’s product will be all but instantly axed. Yahoo’s senior vice president of mobile wrote the blog post announcing…
Zynga To Shut Down OMGPOP’s Online Gaming Portal, OMGPOP.com
Long before OMGPOP found its sudden (and rather fleeting) success as a mobile game developer with Draw Something, it began its life as an online game network at OMGPOP.com. After…
Kivo Uses Git To Make Collaborating On Documents Easier, Starting With PowerPoint
Most collaboration software these days seems to focus on real time, but Kivo, a new Y Combinator-backed startup out of the accelerator’s current class, is taking a different approach.
Google Reader Alternative Feedly Sells Out Of Newly Launched Pro Accounts, More Arriving This Fall
Barely a day after Google Reader replacement Feedly began offering a paid version of its service, the company has sold out of the limited number of premium accounts it was…
Menu Dashboard Locu Launches Publisher Platform, Makes Its Data Available To All
Locu, the increasingly popular menu dashboard for restaurants and local merchants, today announced that it has opened its publisher platform to any online publisher who is interested in using its…
Google Co-Founder Unveils His Latest Moon Shot: A Test Tube Burger
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin financed what could be the next revolution in food production: a test tube-grown hamburger. Dutch researchers unveiled a stem cell-grown 5-ounce beef patty at a public…
Webflow Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly When You’re Done
Webflow, a Y Combinator-backed startup offering creative professionals an easier, more visual way to design and host responsive websites, is launching out of its closed beta, with already some 10,000…
GenieDB’s New Distributed Database Service Addresses Coming NSA Fallout Over Failed Data Protection
GenieDB has launched a MySQL distributed database service to manage data across multiple regions and cloud providers, making it suited to companies with concerns about the NSA having access to…
Maxwell Health Raises $2M To Take On Zenefits With Concierge Service, Personal Health Incentives
Maxwell Health, a platform that provides easy-to-manage health insurance, has raised $2 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Tribeca Venture Partners, with participation from Lerer Ventures, Vaizra…
Lifejackets-On With “Boat To Work” From Uber And Boatbound
Uber wants to prove it’s about redefining transportation, not just cars on demand. San Francisco’s BART metro workers almost went on strike Monday, so Uber partnered with Boatbound to offer…
As the trend towards the convergence of journalism and marketing marches ever onward today we celebrate LG’s efforts to buy press for their new phone, the LG G2. We received…
Mobile Shopping Companion Clutch Raises $5M Series B, Acquires Gift & Loyalty Platform Provider ProfitPoint
Clutch, a mobile application for iPhone and Android which aims to combine gift cards, coupons, comparison shopping, gifting, and personalized recommendations all under one roof, has raised $5 million in…
Olacabs Makes Live Traffic Heatmaps In India To Solve Its Cab Problem
Getting a cab in Mumbai isn’t the same as it is in other countries, according to one of the taxi app startups in India. Olacabs‘ co-founder, Bhavish Aggarwal, said it’s…
LinkedIn Now Lets Jobseekers Apply For Positions Directly Via Its Mobile Apps
Last month, LinkedIn introduced the ability for users of its social network for the working world to search for jobs via its iOS and Android mobile apps. Now it will…
Samsung Invite Promises Next Galaxy Will Show Its Giant Face On September 4
What is usually a dreaded Monday morning inbox was today brightened by an invitation (below) from Samsung to see “the next Galaxy” unveiled in Berlin on September 4. Though the…
OFF Pocket Is A Privacy Pouch For Your Phone That Blocks Cellular, Wi-Fi, GPS To Defy Spies
The OFF Pocket is the latest privacy accessory from the creator of the spy-drone blocking stealth hoodie. It’s a water-resistant metal-fabric pouch designed to hold a smartphone and block all…
Aussie Recruitment Marketplace RecruitLoop Closes $500,000 Seed Round To Fund American Expansion
Demystifying the cabal of recruitment, Australian start-up RecruitLoop has just closed a $500,000 seed round to establish a United States presence for its hiring marketplace, which promises to undercut the…
Amid Speculation That Yahoo Was Sniffing Around, Blinkx Acquires Video Content Syndication And Ad Platform Grab Media
Amid speculation that online video syndication and advertising platform Grab Media could be on Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo acquisition list, AIM-listed Internet Media platform Blinkx has moved to acquire the property…
Futureful’s Predictive Discovery Engine Gets New Interface, Expands From iPad To iPhone
Helsinki, Finland-based smarter web surfing startup Futureful, which launched in the U.S. on iPad back in January — and is best described as a predictive discovery engine (rather than a…
Rocket Internet Launches Jovago To Bring Online Hotel Booking To Africa
It’s often said that the question, ‘what if Google launches something similar?’, is the kind of thing that keeps entrepreneurs up at night. But if you’re a burgeoning e-commerce startup…
FlightCar Offers Users Up To $400 To Rent Their Cars Out For A Whole Month
FlightCar has launched a new program in which it keeps users’ cars for a month at a time and rent them out to travelers. The program, called FlightCar Monthly, is…
Mavensay has been cultivating a community of recommendations for quite a while now, but only recently has the company taken its userbase’s disposition towards music recommendations and turned it into…
Lync, Azure, Office 365 And The Shifting Center Of Microsoft’s Gravity
You might have missed it, but Lync, Microsoft’s enterprise-focused communications suite brought its parent company $1 billion in revenue during its 2013 fiscal year. That a milestone of that sort…
What Happens At Def Con Stays With Us All
There’s nothing like attendance at the annual Black Hat and DefCon security/hacker conferences to hike your paranoia into the red zone and keep it there forever. You come away with…
