With acquisition feelers out to Twitter for a reported $8 billion to $10 billion, bubble talk is once again the topic of discussion.
Posted on 10 February 2011
With acquisition feelers out to Twitter for a reported $8 billion to $10 billion, bubble talk is once again the topic of discussion.
Posted on 10 February 2011
Ignighter , the group dating site that is part of the TechStars class of 2008 , has raised $3 million in Series A funding from a number of well-known investors. This brings the company’s total funding to $4.2 million . The round was led by Point Judith Capital with GSA Venture Partners , Founder Collective, GTI Capital Group, Hugo Enterprises, Rajan Anandan , David Cohen , Dave Tisch, Kal Vepuri , Peter Lehrman , Nihal Mehta and other angels participating
Posted on 10 February 2011
Much like 1000Memories with its online memorial to Egyptian protesters, group-texting app GroupFlier realized that its users were clamoring for an #Egypt-related feature, specifically one that provided curated Twitter and other content relating to the anti-Mubarak protests. GroupFlier founder and Harvard Cyber-security expert Morris Penner thought this was a good idea.
Posted on 10 February 2011
Just in case you haven’t had enough Apple rumors in the past 24 hours… Hot off the heels of the talk that Apple is planning to release the iPad 2 in a few weeks — and then another new version of the iPad in the fall (something which we’ve heard from a very good source), here comes another one. Today, Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is working on a smaller, cheaper version of the iPhone.
Posted on 10 February 2011
Rental car stalwarts, The Hertz Corporation (Hertz, NYSE:HTZ) revealed plans to install 2.3 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic systems at sixteen locations across the U.S. this year.
Posted on 10 February 2011
This morning, at a joint event held by Ogilvy and Buddy Media , Facebook’s head of U.S. agency relations Sarah Personette, revealed a number of statistics about the global usage on the social network. According to Facebook, 149 million Americans now actively use the social network (as of 2009, the network had 100 million active users in the U.S.)
Posted on 10 February 2011
You rarely notice haptics, but when it comes to human-computer interaction, they can make or break a device. That’s why Immersion (the leader in haptic feedback – basically little high-speed motors in phones and other devices that add a vibrational component to on-screen interaction) just announced a way to create amazing haptics for almost all Android phones. Their MOTIV platform offers programmers and carriers a new way to add vibrational feedback to phones
Posted on 10 February 2011
Google is making a big push into the wedding planning scene today, launching a full fledged planning portal for brides and grooms to be. Google Weddings is a destination that houses wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik for save-the-dates, wedding websites, planning materials, invitations and more
Posted on 10 February 2011
As we noted last week, Foursquare decided to experiment with a new feature for Super Bowl Sunday: Promoted Venues . Specifically, they created a “Super Bowl Sunday” worldwide venue that anyone could check-in to to let others know that they were watching the Super Bowl. So how did it go?
Posted on 10 February 2011
Today, Facebook is launching a major redesign and expansion of functionality of its Pages for businesses, brands, media, and public figures. The Page layout will now match the December user profile redesign , with a left-hand navigation panel replacing the tabs above the wall