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...
On The Road To TwitBook...
Editor’s note : This guest post is written by Tom Anderson , the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook , Twitter , and Google+ . A few weeks ago I asked if Google+ was putting Facebook on the defensive. After yesterday’s...
LucidChart Nabs $1 Mill...
LucidChart , a web-based diagramming application, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from 500 Startups , 2M Companies , K9 Ventures , as well as several angel investors. The startup will use its new capital to ramp up hiring efforts and to begin positioning its...
Navigation App Waze Dri...
Social mapping and navigation company Waze has hit a big milestone today. The company has accumulated 3 million users in the past 7 months, with 5 million users in over 45 countries. It took just two months for Waze to rack up its last million users. Founded in 2009, Waze offers free...
Patent Troll Sues Amazo...
After slapping Google and PayPal with patent lawsuits, patent troll Purple Leaf is going after Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of infringing on its “311 patent” via Amazon’s Payments product. We’ve embedded the complaint below. According to the complaint,...
First Look: Rdio’s iP...
In the all-you-can-eat music streaming battle between Spotify, Rdio, and MOG, the iPad is more or less untouched territory. Sure, they’ve all got iPhone apps which can be stretched to run at near-full screen on the iPad — but if you’re wanting for something that...