Doc Searls Would Like Y...
Every day companies are spending gobs of money to earn and keep your attention. Advertisers are collecting heaps of information about you in the hopes of presenting you with more targeted advertisements: advertisements on which you’ll want to click. Yet despite all of this...
ComScore: Samsung Widen...
Samsung doesn’t break out actual unit sales figures for its mobile handset business, but many analyst houses are estimating that it is the brand to beat anyway. The latest tip comes from ComScore , which today released the results of its regular poll of 30,000 U.S. consumers to...Scoople Lets You “Ask...
I recently wrote about news gamification app Scoople , and today, the company is releasing a new version with improved social interaction. When you use Scoople, you read news stories (usually aggregated by Scoople from multiple articles) then fill out an associated poll. You can enter...Meet MillionShort: The ...
Recently I tried to do a Google search for a wine to pair with swordfish, and it was pretty much a disaster ( first world problems , I know, but still.) The problem is, web search results for certain topics are just overloaded with dummy websites with little to no valuable content, many...Newvem Raises $4M From ...
EXCLUSIVE -Startup Newvem , which offers a SaaS based service for Amazon/AWS customers that aims to help businesses spend less money and gain more value from Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, has raised $4 million in funding from Greylock Partners with participation from Index Ventures...Onion Browser: A Mobile...
If, for whatever reason, you need to cover your tracks while you are browsing the web on your desktop, you have plenty of options to keep anonymous. Thanks to Orbot , Android users, too, have the option to use the Tor network to anonymize their web browsing sessions and avoid being...
(Founder Stories) Send ...
Divya Gugnani is the co-founder of Send the Trend , a New York based startup that was recently acquired by QVC , just a year-and-a half after launching in 2010. Gugnani, whose founding team includes Project Runway winner Christian Siriano , describes Send the Trend as “an online...Fwix Becomes Radius, A ...
Remember how most companies don’t sell practically overnight for $1 billion and it actually takes years before a startup finds its “Aha!” moment and narrows in on a working business model? Yes, we have one of those stories today. Fwix, which started out as a...
Forrester: 760M Tablets...
Chalk another one up for the mobile revolution: There were 56 million tablets purchased worldwide in 2011, but a new report from Forrester Research predicts that number will explode in the years ahead: its researchers say that there will be 375 million tablets sold by 2016, representing...