Social Music Player TuneWiki Raises Funding From Motorola Ventures, Others
Social music player TuneWiki has raised an undisclosed amount of additional funding in a Series B round led by Motorola Ventures and joined by Intellect Capital Ventures, HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT and prior investor Benchmark Israel. TuneWiki says it will use the investment to expand its product offerings for mobile platforms and the Web. Read more: Social Music Player TuneWiki Raises Funding From Motorola Ventures,...
Oracle Buys AmberPoint To Boost Application Management And Performance Offerings
On the heels of the EU’s approval of Oracle’s $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, the tech giant has opened up the purse strings to acquire application management software provider AmberPoint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close in the first half of this year. Original post: Oracle Buys AmberPoint To Boost Application Management And Performance...
Secret London Facebook Group Amasses 180,000 — Morphs Into Startup
There’s a certain irony that TechCrunch’s in-house satirist Paul Carr is currently slaving over the sequel to his book about his failure to launch a startup. Fridaycities was to be a site which allowed anyone to swap information in real time about London, and eventually other cities. The site failed, Paul wrote his book (and a few other things, let’s admit) and the rest is history, including our little run in , thankfully Excerpt from: Secret London Facebook Group Amasses 180,000...
Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem
“People in technology businesses are drawn to places known for diversity of thought and open-mindedness”, is what Professor Richard Florida concluded after studying the growth and success of 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. The most successful regions were those with the most gays, bohemians, and immigrants Original post: Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender...
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Today, the blog Chromium Notes , which is written by a developer who works on the open source project (that Google Chrome is built on top of), posted a very interesting graph: one that shows the number of code commits to WebKit . Notably, it appears that Google has overtaken Apple as the organization that contributes the most commits to the open source project. See the original post: Late Last Year, Google Overtook Apple In WebKit Code... Recent Posts
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