Posted on 29 June 2012
On the 25th of June, our dearest Alexia Tsotsis had an incredibly rough day . First, her car was looted by very bad people in San Francisco, who stole her laptop and a pair of excellent Bose headphones that were near and dear to her heart. And as if that wasn’t enough, her car then got smashed by someone running a red light, totaling her vehicle and leaving her in quite a bit of pain
Tags: alexia, alexia-tsotsis, contributors, drama, enters-the-mix, explains-on-its, Facebook, image, ingrid lunden, laptop, sentimental, shot-2012-06-29, startups
Posted on 29 June 2012
Facebook added 17 new positions to its careers page this week, including jobs for a mobile growth partner engineer, marketing and platform designer, a pan-Euro client partner and a procurement buyer, among others. Posts added this week on Facebook’s Careers Page : Mobile Growth, Partner Engineer Platform Program Manager Platform Program Manager Procurement Buyer Corporate Communications Manager, India (Hyderabad) Recruiter – London Recruiting Coordinator – Engineering- Contract Recruiting Manager – London Technical Program Manager 120603 Marketing & Platform Designer Analyst, Platform Operations, Spanish/Portuguese (Dublin) Associate, Platform Operations Account Manager, Financial Services (New York) Pan Euro Client Partner (London) Client Partner, Retail Client Partner, Retail (Austin) Operational Data Analyst (Austin)
Tags: careers, client-partner, communications, including-jobs, jobs, manager, Mobile, mobile-growth, partner, retail
Posted on 29 June 2012
Paul Oakenfold , the world-renowned electronic music producer and DJ, has seen a lot of change in the industry since his career began more than 25 years ago . And perhaps the biggest shifts have come from technology — from the way music is made, to how it’s distributed, to where and how people listen to it, to how artists become known and signed to labels, to the tools DJs use in clubs to spin records
Tags: industry, intersection, laptop, live, music, people, really-embraced, record-the-show, Video
Posted on 29 June 2012
Facebook appears to have hired a head of policy, France, and about two dozen other employees according to listings removed from its careers page , as well as LinkedIn updates. New hires, according to LinkedIn : Aravind Anbudurai, Software Engineer – former Software Development Engineer, IC-1 at Yahoo Edward Ohrns, Sales/Advertising - former Cust Svc II Rep at PSCU Mark Uyeda, Recruiting Coordinator - former Recruiter Compliance Administrator at Facebook Shireesh Asthana, Platform Engineer – former Directed Research Student at Integrated Media System Center Vasiliy Kuznetsov, Product Analyst – former associate at ZS Associates David Stone, Client Partner - former Product Manager at WaytoStay Kasey Sykes, Team Lead, Strategic Client Services – promoted from Account Manager at Facebook Positions removed from the Facebook Careers page : Head of Policy, France Network Engineer, SW Data Center Business Operations Manager Manager, Business Operations Operations Analyst Public Policy Manager (Sao Paulo) HR Specialist – Contract (Austin) Data Center Business Operations Manager Datacenter Optimization Engineer Lead Data Center Technician (Forest City) Network Engineer, SW SCO Procurement Coordinator, Site Operations Sourcing Manager, Data Center Infrastructure Services Head of CPG/Beverage, Global Vertical Marketing Platform Developer Marketing Manager Analyst, Ad Review Operations – Contractor (Austin) Analyst, Platform Operations (Dublin) Analyst, Platform Operations (Dublin) Manager, Platform Operations Account Manager (Sao Paulo) Team Lead, Media Solutions, Southern Europe (Dublin) Operations Analyst Client Partner, Mobile (Chicago) Who else is hiring? The Inside Network Job Board presents a survey of current openings at leading companies in the industry
Tags: account-manager, business, center-business, client-partner, contractor, Facebook, france, Mobile, network, platform, recruiting, sales
Posted on 29 June 2012
TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back and everything is shaping up nicely behind the scenes. Actually, I was in a Disrupt meeting all day and that’s why this post is going out so late. So, you will have an extra day to enter.
Tags: adrian-grenier, asked-everyone, crunch-disrupt, crunch-facebook, disrupt, disrupt-tickets, Facebook, kevin-systrom, News, steps, techcrunch, thinking-right, time
Posted on 29 June 2012
Bloglovin , a startup that has been compared to Tumblr and RSS, has just raised a $1 million Series A.
Tags: Facebook, fashion, fritz-lanman, girlfriend, lerer-ventures, media, Mobile, social, startups, swenson, traffic
Posted on 29 June 2012
Facebook will give investors and the world their first official look at its post-IPO earning for Q2 2012 at 2pm PST on July 26th, according to a brief note posted to its investor relations page just now. There’s been no indication of whether CEO Mark Zuckerberg will participate in an earnings call or if more business focused execs COO Sheryl Sandberg and CFO David Ebersman will be the ones fielding questions. The company pulled in $1.058 billion in Q1 2012 revenue with a net income of $205 million.
Tags: Facebook, goldman-sachs, Mobile, News, price, shot-2012-06-29, social, working-on-more
Posted on 29 June 2012
AgLocal , a startup that’s using the power of the Internet to disrupt how animal farmers connect with meat buyers and distributors, has just scored $1 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz , Midwest VC firm OpenAir Equity Partners and other angels including John Fohr (Partner at Lux Capital), Thad Langford (former CEO of Zave Networks), Dan Carroll (founder of Leap2 and AdPredictive), Andy O’Hara (Partner at Tradebot Ventures), and Matt Watson (Founder of Vin Solutions and Stackify). The additional funding will help the company build out its technology platform, hire additional engineers, and establish relationships with potential partners in advance of its late summer/fall launch planned for later this year.
Tags: aglocal, city, environment, farming, green, kansas, power, startups, summer
Posted on 29 June 2012
Gogobot , the social travel site that recently passed the 1 million registered user mark , just launched an interesting redesign this week that turn the site’s homepage into more of an interactive magazine experience with a focus on photos instead of the site’s previous text-heavy design. As Gogobot’s founder Travis Katz told me earlier this week, the Gogobot team noticed that its users didn’t just use the service to plan their trips and update their friends, but that many of them also used the service just to browse photos. This, said Katz, became especially clear after Gogobot launched its mobile app earlier this year and allowed users to share and create virtual postcards from their trips
Tags: conversation, design, Facebook, flickr, focus-on-photos, gogobot, Mobile, social-travel, the-service, trips
Posted on 29 June 2012
The Raspberry Pi is a tasty little Linux computing device but it’s so far been rather hard to buy. I’ve wanted to order one since it officially started to ship in April
Tags: finally-order, limited, linux, more-capable, pretty-exciting, raspberry, retailers-sold, tasty-little, the-limited