Early Facebook App Caus...

Causes launched with the Facebook Platform back in 2007 as a way to help friends more easily campaign for the social causes of their choice. The app benefited from getting in early on the platform, being the only one in its category (other developers were building poking apps or games at...

With Self-Serve Ads On ...

In preparation for a ramp up of its monetization efforts and its first beta phase of self serve ads, Twitter has bought security startup Dasient , which specializes in malware and fighting spam. The team will be integrated into “revenue engineering,” a.k.a the ad product team...
DLD 2012 – Brian Chesky: “Average Airbnb Host In NYC Pockets $21,000 A Year”

DLD 2012 – Brian Ches...

Brian Chesky , co-founder and CEO of Airbnb , took the stage this afternoon at the DLD Conferenc e in Germany for a keynote covering his views about the ‘sharing economy’. In terms of news, there isn’t much to report based on his talk, but Chesky talked about the fact...

Cyfe Lets SMBs Monitor ...

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that, amidst the bevy of web startups and app developers rushing to build consumer-facing products and services, the business-to-business space holds increasing opportunities for startups and small businesses. Small businesses, and let’s...

Weight Watchers For Sma...

Startups and small businesses are the engine of job creation. In the U.S., companies less than five years old created 44 million jobs over the last three decades and, over that time, accounted for all net new jobs created in the U.S. — just ask the White House . Of course,...

DLD 2012 – @Jack Dors...

Earlier this fine Sunday afternoon, Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey took the stage at the DLD Conference , the annual pre-Davos meeting of minds held in Munich, Germany. In an interview with not one but two journalists (Holger Schmidt from FOCUS Magazine and Techonomy’s...
Steal This Book!

Steal This Book!...

Nobody wants to be told that their business model is obsolete. Ask Kodak . Or Hollywood . And the publishing industry is slower on its feet than most. Bookstores don’t want to believe that they’ll ultimately lose 75% of their pre-e-book business to that scourge plus Amazon...
What Happened To Kodak’s Moment?

What Happened To Kodak...

A Kodak Moment: a rare, one-time moment that is captured by a picture, or should have been captured by a picture Click. We all had them: times you reached for a camera to stop life for a second, to grab a memory. For decades, Kodak was the rock solid standard in photography and as the...

Larry Page Is Super Exc...

The official numbers are in for Google’s new social network, Google+ . Beating out most previous third-party estimates that we’ve seen, the company said today that it now has 90 million users worldwide. Presumably this means monthly uniques visitors given that the earnings...
Will Interactive iBooks Be The Next Big Booty For Pirates?

Will Interactive iBooks...

With the shift from print books to digital books come a few nasty side effects. Sure, it’s much easier to acquire and read books when you don’t even have to get out of your chair, but those digital copies can be cracked and disseminated for free with only a little more...

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