Posted on 18 May 2013
Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies in our food manufacturing, production and distribution systems. As interest in food tech balloons, one area in particular appears to already be at the tipping point: Online and mobile food delivery
Tags: food, food order, food tech, grubhub, nyc, opinion, seamless, social, startups
Posted on 17 May 2013
Zynga has apparently told the makers of the dating website CupidWithFriends that they need to change the site’s name, because it allegedly infringes on Zynga’s trademarks. CupidWithFriends was built by the startup Apartment 7 (which also released the dating apps Flock and Wednesday Night )
Tags: apple, chess, cupid, dating, Facebook, friends, games, Mobile, social, startups, trademarks, words, zynga
Posted on 17 May 2013
Facebook shares down 31 percent since IPO 1 year ago – Facebook shares closed today at $26.25, up $0.12 from yesterday but down 31 percent since the company’s initial public offering on May 18, 2012. Despite a new focus on monetization, particularly on mobile, Facebook hasn’t instilled confidence in investors in its first year as a public company
Tags: before-the-ipo, companies, Facebook, Mobile, offering-on-may, rating-it-held, social, social-network
Posted on 17 May 2013
Facebook today announced that its new version of Offers with larger images and calls to action are now available on Android. In February, the social network began testing the new layout on desktop with an option to shop immediately or get a reminder before the promotion ends. The interface also lets users decide if and when to share the offer with friends.
Tags: advertising, Facebook, marketing, Mobile, offers, testing-the-new, today-announced, Trends, writer
Posted on 17 May 2013
As Facebook looks to convert more page owners into advertisers, it is trying even more new ways to highlight its Promoted Posts product. Some users are now receiving notifications when one of their page posts performs better than average. The notification encourages page owners to advertise the post to get “even better results.” Whether or not they take the recommendation, page owners might appreciate the notice about how well their post is doing
Tags: another-recent, encourages-page, Facebook, get-additional, homepage-module, megaphone-icon, News, pages, power, promoted, promoted-posts, tool-or-power, whether-or-not
Posted on 17 May 2013
$FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it’s made important progress since going public a year ago. Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights
Tags: apple, content-items, data, developing, Facebook, facebook ipo, friends, future, graph-search, highly-relevant, News, social, world
Posted on 17 May 2013
Any programmer or blogger knows that when you work on the Internet, on a computer, it’s easy to gain weight. Tech office pantries are stocked with Red Bull, candy, chips and even things you wouldn’t think were too unhealthy, like protein bars
Tags: book, clothes, foodist-excerpt, google ventures, instagram, instagram-copy, internet, life, office, partner, startup, time, wife, work
Posted on 17 May 2013
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss , the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook and are now working as tech investors through Winklevoss Capital , are part of the growing group of venture capitalists who have taken a keen interest in Bitcoins . Last month, it was revealed that they personally own roughly one percent of the currency , having purchased the equivalent of some $11 million. And now, the Winklevosses tell TechCrunch they have invested in Bitcoin in another meaningful way — by leading a funding round for a startup in the space.
Tags: charlie-shrem, companies, Facebook, money, News, satoshi-bitcoin, silicon-valley, week, winklevosses
Posted on 17 May 2013
Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup , a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we’d heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to phase out consumer services altogether, as Backupify focuses its efforts on paid services for enterprise customers. From today, it will stop accepting new sign-ups for its free tier of back-up services for personal files. It is also discontinuing by the end of this year support for certain sites, including Facebook personal profiles, Blogger, Picassa and Flickr
Tags: backupify, efforts-on-paid, enterprise, Facebook, live, News, picture, platforms, Social Media, symantec, twitter
Posted on 17 May 2013
Tripshare , an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space.
Tags: apps, Facebook, flights, ipad app, Mobile, network, trip, work