Posted on 08 February 2012
Editor’s note : Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of newly funded just.me . He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Just.me is a stealth company in the mobile space and as such Keith’s opinions on this issue are likely to reflect his product focus
Tags: address, business, data, device, download, functionality, Mobile, phone, relationships
Posted on 08 February 2012
In a few months time, here’s what the world will be fighting to get its hands on, or get rid of depending on your confidence in Facebook’s business plan.
Tags: apple, confidence, Facebook, facebook-stock, real-collector, the-certificate, wtf, yahoo, your-confidence
Posted on 08 February 2012
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason just finished his first post-IPO earnings calls with Wall Street analysts.
Tags: chicago, covered-it-live, ecommerce, economics, expect-mason, Facebook, find-the-right, groupon, movie, performance, relationships, street, Video
Posted on 08 February 2012
Facebook is huge on mobile — as an application developer. But questions have circled for years around how it can be a real mobile platform on top of operating systems controlled by Apple and Google
Tags: closer-at-how, details-on-how, Facebook, implementations, Mobile, native-or-web, News, operating-systems, social, social-channels
Posted on 08 February 2012
We’re at the San Francisco Design center, blogging Inside Network’s third annual Inside Social Apps conference. Founder of Inside Network Justin Smith sat down with Facebook Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen for a fireside chat called “The Facebook Platform Roadmap in 2012.” With the company filing for an initial public offering last week, Sjogreen was unable to share too much about the future of monetization the platform, but he provided insight on the state of Open Graph, mobile and games on Facebook. The following is a paraphrased transcript of the discussion
Tags: business, Facebook, friends, graph, Mobile, things, thoughts
Posted on 08 February 2012
Gumroad , the buzzy one-man startup launched by Pinterest and Turntable app designer (and 19-year-old college dropout) Sahil Lavingia , officially launches today with over $1.1 million in seed funding from investors Accel Partners , Chris Sacca , Max Levchin , SV Angel, Josh Kopelman , Seth Goldstein , Naval Ravikrant , Collaborative Fund and Danny Rimer. To use the Gumroad, sign in with Facebook or Twitter Auth and submit any link in the entry form, whether it be to a blogpost, Spotify playlist, Instagram, invite for an iPhone app, research paper or whatever you can come up with you crazy character! The service asks you to set a price and gives you the option of whether or not you want to require an email for purchase and/or upload a photo
Tags: accel-partners, angel, Facebook, gumroad, lavingia, naval-ravikrant, payment, sahil-lavingia, their-followers, traditional, twitter-auth, whether-or-not
Posted on 08 February 2012
Facebook added a horde of documents to its filing for an initial public offering, including a copy of the 2005 stock plan. There are also some offer letters to executives, the five-year agreement with Zynga, an agreement from 2010 with Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies when the late-stage investment firm held an 8.2 percent stake in the company . The only interesting thing about seems to be that DST agreed to a longer lock-up period than other investors
Tags: business, concession, data, digital, early-investors, News, requirements, shares-as-long
Posted on 08 February 2012
It’s a sign of the times, though not a particularly surprising one: Nokia has finally eliminated its European phone assembly infrastructure and will be moving those 4000 jobs to Asia, according to a Reuters report . The factories are not being shuttered altogether, and localizing and finishing work will still be done there, but the primary assembly work is being relocated. The news and layoffs were expected, as the company has slashed many more thousands of jobs over the last year, but this particular cut is symbolic: the intensely European company has been battered into submission, and will join the others in the now-standard configuration of “design here, build there.” The job losses are 2300 in Hungary, 1000 in Finland, and 700 in Mexico
Tags: intensely, jobs, join-the-others, losing-the-jobs, Mobile, nokia, taiwan
Posted on 08 February 2012
This morning, Foursquare launched an updated version of its “Explore” feature for both its iPhone and Android applications. The new version brings over several of the features already available through Foursquare on the web , including filters, photos in search results and the ability to change your location.
Tags: apps, explore, Facebook, improvements, Mobile, mood, search, search-engine, search-results, social, still-sometimes, updated-version, visits-as-well
Posted on 08 February 2012
Nest is ready to fight. The Palo Alto company just issued a followup statement regarding Honeywell’s recent patent infringement suit
Tags: bring-products, defend-itself, Facebook, gadgets, honeywell, learning, recent-patent, resources, true-innovation