Cloud Photos Automatica...

Well, here’s an app that’s actually practical. Cloud Photos  (for iOS) is a newly launched mobile camera replacement app which automatically uploads photos to Dropbox , as soon as you snap the picture. The idea here is that you can use the app to save space on your...

Instagram’s User Coun...

Instagram received a fair amount of press over the last week. First, 10 days ago, the app launched on Android for the first time. Then news of Facebook buying the tiny startup for $1 billion was everywhere from the Drudge Report to The Daily Show. The attention resulted in explosive...

Push Comes To Shove: Ap...

Another development in the ongoing fight between Apple and Motorola Mobility over patent infringements in Germany: a court has decided against Apple Inc. in a case involving its push email service on iCloud and MobileMe services in the country. This is effectively an extension of the...
Fetchnotes Launches A Simple, Cloud-Based Note-Taking Service (That Twitter Users Will Love)

Fetchnotes Launches A S...

Fetchnotes is a promising, lightweight note-taking app for list makers and idea-havers which looks deceptively simple. But that simplicity is actually one of Fetchnotes’ key selling points. It’s meant to be fast and easy to use. And although there are a ton of apps for...

Microsoft Will Soon Sta...

Ever since Microsoft launched the Bing API a few years ago, this service was available for free to developers who wanted to use data from the company’s search engine in their own products. Today, however, Microsoft announced that it will soon start charging for access to the Bing...
Rumblefish Catalog Grows To 1M Songs, Powers Soundtracks In Socialcam, Animoto, And More

Rumblefish Catalog Grow...

Rumblefish , a service where consumers and businesses can easily license music for their online videos, says it now has licensing rights to more than 1 million songs, making it the largest catalog of pre-cleared music. The idea is pretty simple: When you’re posting a video on a...
Jonathan Heiliger: From Yahoo’s ISP To Facebook’s Infrastructure To Being A North Bridge VC

Jonathan Heiliger: From...

If you’re familiar with Jonathan Heiliger’s work , it’s probably because you used Facebook sometime in the last five years. He was the person in charge of keeping the site online as it grew from 35 million to more than 800 million users. Or, maybe you’ve...

DataSift Teams Up With ...

DataSift , a data analysis company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter , Facebook and other social data sources, is teaming up with NewsCred to allow clients to perform deep data analysis and monitoring of social media and news sources. For background,...

Is The Nokia Lumia 900 ...

The Lumia 900 is a special device in that it’s the beginning of a shift. At least, that’s what Microsoft and Nokia are hoping for. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said in September that a third mobile platform would emerge to compete with Apple and Google, and to be honest the only...

Pinterest Co-Founder Pa...

Well, big changes on the horizon for Pinterest! We’ve confirmed with our own independent sources this Startup Grind  report  that Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra is leaving the startup. And it’s complicated: While Sciarra, who took a six week hiatus from pinning and...

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