Archive | June 12th, 2010

MOG’s Music Streaming iPhone App Is Caught In App Store Purgatory, Too

Posted on 12 June 2010

Yesterday we reported on a music-streaming iPhone application called Rdio that has been waiting for weeks to have an update approved by Apple. Now we’ve learned that this may be part of a new trend: MOG , the music portal that offers an impressive on-demand streaming music service, is also having issues with the App Store

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Andreessen Horowitz To Win The Foursquare Investor Badge

Posted on 12 June 2010

A months long fundraising process for Foursquare is in its last stages, we’ve heard from multiple sources, and Andreessen Horowitz looks to be preparing to check-in to Foursquare to take an investor badge. The company has delayed committing to new venture capital as they considered buyout offers – negotiations went deep with both Yahoo and Facebook , and possibly Microsoft

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Is Entrepreneurship Just About the Exit?

Posted on 12 June 2010

David Park and Eric Bahn are earning more at their startup, called Beat The GMAT , than they ever did in the corporate world. Every penny of profit from the business goes directly into their bank accounts

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Facebook: Calacanis Is Lying

Posted on 12 June 2010

Well, this is getting more interesting. This morning, we reported that Jason Calacanis’ Facebook account was still active, despite his very public deletion of the account about 20 days ago

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Apple Hits 10,000 iPad Apps — Store Doubled In The Past Six Weeks

Posted on 12 June 2010

During his keynote address at WWDC on Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs rattled off some key statistics . Among them was that there are 8,500 native iPad apps.

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Facebook Roundup: Flickr, China, Foursquare, Bangladesh, U.S. Facebook Stats and More

Posted on 12 June 2010

Flickr Turns On Facebook Sync – Flickr users may now sync their Facebook and Flickr accounts so every time they upload a public photo to Flickr it appears in their Facebook news stream. The integration is powered by the Yahoo! Updates platform, coming on the heels of other recent Yahoo! Facebook integrations .

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Note: Facebook Working on Fixing Fan Count Bug for Pages

Posted on 12 June 2010

Over the last couple days, some Page administrators have been noticing incorrect counts for the number of people who like their Facebook Page. Facebook has confirmed that this is a bug, and is working to fix it today.

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