NumberFire Pockets $750...
Back in September , we wrote about numberFire , a New York City-based startup that’s attempting to bring a deep, scientific approach to your fantasy football picks. At the time, the startup was preparing to graduate (along with ten other stalwart companies ) from the Entrepreneurs...MyPad Shrugs Off Offici...
On October 10th, one of the longest running tech rumors in recent memory finally came to fruition: Facebook released its own, official iPad application . The app had been in high demand since the day the iPad first launched (Facebook’s iPhone app is, after all, among the...
Keen On… Parag Khanna...
Yes, we know that technology entrepreneurs are revolutionizing media, healthcare, education, energy, even government. But what about the ancient art of diplomacy? Can entrepreneurs – and, in particular, Internet entrepreneurs – help us run the world more effectively? According to...TomTom Finally Acknowle...
Time was when a GPS device was the must-have item in any self-respecting gadget-lover’s gear bag. But as years wore on and smartphones began to usurp the location functions, they’ve grown increasingly irrelevant. Sure, they still serve a purpose, but we’ve been advising...
Y Combinator Is Now Get...
Wow. Silicon Valley-based startup incubator Y Combinator is getting just over one application per minute, according to a Tweet from co-founder and partner Paul Graham. Today is the last day for applications for the next Y Combinator class, and clearly founders are in a rush to get their...
Applications For Paul G...
One of the most popular Disrupt sessions is Paul Graham’s Office Hours . (See video below). We are bringing it back to Disrupt SF on Monday, September 12th. If you are attending Disrupt and would like to be considered, be sure you fill out the form below and fill it out soon....
Use Yammer Connect To I...
Enterprise social networking platform Yammer is expanding the reach of its network today, launching Yammer Connect. The new plug-ins allows users to bring their Yammer identity to other business applications and an Embed feature enables companies to embed Yammer feeds into their intranet...
Tinypay.me Raises $1 Mi...
E-commerce platform Tinypay.me , which emerged from 2010′s Le Web conference as a sort of Twitter for e-commerce, has just raised $1 million from Aksoy Internet Ventures. The money will be used, in part, to relocate company headquarters from the Netherlands to the heart of Silicon...
Point, Apple: Court Iss...
A pretty sizable chunk of Europe was dealt a rather massive blow this morning in the form of a preliminary injunction on some Galaxy smartphones. Of course, this was at the behest of Apple. The tablets — the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 7 — made it out of the court room...