Flash Sales Giant Gilt ...

Thanks to online pinboard’s Pinterest’s fast growth, many retail sites are placing “Pin It” buttons next to items for sale as a sharing mechanism. Flash sales giant Gilt is taking the whole Pinning trend to another level by allow users to access special deals on...

Business Audience Marke...

Bizo , a company offering technology to help advertisers reach a business audience, has raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding. The company has now raised a total of $20 million. Crosslink Capital led the round, and the firm’s newest partner David Silverman is joining...

One Screen To Rule Them...

Editor’s note:   Jay Fulcher is CEO of video technology company Ooyala . He previously contributed a column about “ Fear And Loathing In Online Video .” Follow him on Twitter @jbfulcher. While hosting this year’s Academy Awards, Billy Crystal cracked, “I prefer...

Scoople Turns Reading T...

If you’re a news junkie who wants to make the experience a little more active, Scoople may be the iPhone app for you. The app was created by a startup called Dygest. When you’re using it, you get a stream of news stories, and each story has an associated poll. For example,...
A 4.6-Inch iPhone With 4G LTE? I’d Buy That

A 4.6-Inch iPhone With ...

Alright. So you have your new iPad . You’re breathing easy knowing that the hectic, crazy part is over and you can simply relax and browse the interwebs on that stunning Retina display. But not so fast. The iPhone rumor mill started picking up the pace before the iPad was even...
Amicus Wants To Socialize Nonprofit Fundraising And Outreach, Raises $580K Itself

Amicus Wants To Sociali...

Amicus , a startup looking to use social connections to make nonprofit fundraising and outreach easier, has raised a seed round of $580,000. You can see Amicus’ founders demonstrate the product in the video below, but the basic idea is that fundraising phone calls and emails are a...

The Fallen King: Apple ...

Once upon a time RIM was the shining star of Canada. Hailing from the Great White North, BlackBerry phones were the country’s dominant smartphone. But times have changed and RIM has not changed with them. That’s a recipe for failure and it seems that based on data compiled by...

Fly Or Die: The New iPa...

iPad, iPad, iPad. What else is there to say? You already know the Retina display is amazing . You know the camera’s been improved and that that little A5X chip is super snappy. You know that the latest version of iOS supports Japanese Siri and voice transcription . You know three...
With Y Combinator-Backed EveryArt, You Don’t Have To Be Afraid Of Commissioning Art

With Y Combinator-Backe...

If you want to bring some art into your life, but you’re intimidated by the art world, a Y Combinator-backed startup called EveryArt wants to help. The site is a marketplace where people can commission artists to create pieces, and it’s opening to the public today. On...

Six-Year-Old Twitter No...

Today marks the sixth year since founder Jack Dorsey and Twitter’s first members started using the communications platform. And for its birthday, the company has posted a number of stats about its growth in usage. Twitter now has 140 million active users is seeing 340 million Tweets a...

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