Why Is Aol Still Chargi...
Now this is just hilarious. Apparently this Arizona woman has been paying for “email” for almost a decade — even though it’s been available free for a while and free for Aol users since 2006 . According to a year-old “New Yorker” article by Ken...
Keen On… Marian Salzm...
Happy New Year everyone! And to celebrate the beginning of 2012, I invited the noted trendologist, Marian Salzman, the author of the excellent Little Book of Nexts , into our New York City studio to preview the year and tell us what will be the top trends of 2012. Whatever else one...Aol Employees Make Zomb...
In case you haven’t noticed ;), it’s an especially slooooooooooooooooooooow time for the tech industry. So slow that some Aol employees — the only one I recognize is Sol Lipman — made a video about the recent Aol talent exodus, using ZOMBIES as a metaphor for...Meet Circa, The Stealth...
As we heard in August, SimpleGeo founder Matt Galligan left the company to pursue other interests. SimpleGeo was then bought by UrbanAirship in November, and fellow co-founder Joe Stump left the newly acquired startup to start his own venture, Sprintly . Galligan recently announced...Cox Media Invests $6 Mi...
Fledgling content farm Skyword has raised $6 million from broadcasting and publishing company Cox Media . Skyword markets a “digital content platform” that provides brands and media companies with a way to buy ‘search engine and social network friendly’ articles...Saudi Prince Pumps $300...
In an unexpected move, a member of the Saudi royal family has invested $300 million in social networking company Twitter . This morning, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, founder and CEO of Kingdom Holding Company and one of the wealthiest people on the planet, announced...
Building A Company In B...
Editor’s note : Guest contributor Lee Jacobs is the founder of language learning startup Colingo. While I may have pulled several all nighters, and slept under a few desks in my day , I am still pretty soft compared to your typical Brazilian entrepreneur. In fact, most coddled...
Why So Many M&A Dea...
Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo . Follow him @ashkan . While some M&A deals turn out to be great successes , it’s no surprise that a lot of mergers and acquisitions fail. The obvious factors explaining the failures...