Posted on 24 July 2010
Since its public beta launch in April, fabulis has been growing quickly. The gay mens’ social network now has over 51,000 members — up 40 percent in the last 30 days alone. And their taking that growth mobile, with the launch of a new iPhone app today
Tags: fabulis, iphone, jason-goldberg, location, messages, million-fabulis, Mobile, News, plans, random-fabulis, social-network, virtual
Posted on 24 July 2010
The Car Charging Group, Inc.
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Posted on 24 July 2010
One of the most exciting things to watch in tech these days is various groups’ estimates for Zynga’s revenues.
Tags: data, Facebook, game, inside-network, new-york-times, News, revenue, year, zynga
Posted on 24 July 2010
Earlier this year, you probably heard that Apple blocked Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone App converter from the App Store on the eve of the tool’s launch. That may have crushed Adobe’s dream of allowing developers to write their Flash apps once and deploy them wherever they’d like, but its AIR platform still works with Mac, PC, and Linux, with support for Android devices coming later this year. That means developers will soon be able to write applications that will work on both the desktop and smartphones
Tags: adobe, air, apple, deploy-the-same, flash, linux, Mobile, News, tool, Video, youtube
Posted on 24 July 2010
Los Angeles based CrowdGather , which offers forums for online communities, has aquired the assets of Silicon Valley based Lefora . The size of the all-stock transaction isn’t being disclosed.
Tags: assets, boasts, bragiel-tal-ki, cafe-incubator, crowdgather, lefora, lefora-as-well, monthly-unique, News, notable-because, remaining, silicon-valley, the-all-stock
Posted on 24 July 2010
This week’s episode of Speaking Of… (video below) features the founder/CEO of Halcyon Molecular, William Andregg. Andregg grew up in Arizona. There’s a song by The Orb called Little Fluffy Clouds that describes the light-pollution-free Arizonan sky quite perfectly, with amazing clouds, sunsets and stars.
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Posted on 24 July 2010
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Steve Faulkner. He is the CEO of the GeoHuddle, a Madison, Wisconsin based startup developing community geothermal heating and cooling systems.
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Posted on 24 July 2010
Time Magazine Editor Josh Quittner and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage on Friday afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen. Most of the interview was centered on AOL’s content strategies. But what I really wanted to know about was what AOL’s plans were around search
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Posted on 24 July 2010
Today marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) , a code of law that has influenced society and tech companies in interesting ways already, and is expanding to influence them even more.
Tags: amazon, controller, disability, Facebook, internet access, Mobile, search, university
Posted on 24 July 2010
The location check-in was so 2009. Well not exactly, like many, I suspect location-based services will eventually live up to their hype in the mobile arena
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