Google Finally Gets Rig...
When Google launched Gmail in Germany in 2005, it was quickly barred from using the Gmail name for its email product there. German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch, after all, had registered the ‘G-mail’ trademark (short for Giersch mail) for his physical and electronic mail...
It’s Not A Bubble, It...
Editor’s note: Bob Buch is a two-time startup founder, was VP of Business Development at Digg, then at AOL, and is now working on founding his next business. Follow him on Twitter @bobbuch . There is a certain type of company that can only exist in Silicon Valley. People outside of...Court Rules Software No...
Before leaving Goldman Sachs to earn a millionaire’s salary with Chicago High Frequency Trading (HFT) startup Teza Technologies, Sergey Aleynikov made one last transaction. At 5:20pm on his last day, just before his going-away party, Aleynikov uploaded 500,000 lines of encrypted source...
500px Debuts ‘Plus’...
500px , the photo sharing website that has become the new darling of the photo buff set, today rolled out a new $19.95/year ‘Plus’ membership plan, putting it more squarely in competition with Flickr . Up until now, 500px’s premium offering has catered mostly to the...Facebook Buys Instagram...
Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire mobile photo sharing app Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain an independently branded standalone app that’s separate from Facebook, but the services will increase their ties to each other....How the IPO Ruined Goog...
Editor’s Note: Ian Lurie is CEO of Portent Inc , an internet marketing agency that he founded in 1995. He co-published Web Marketing All-In-One for Dummies , where he wrote the sections on SEO, blogging, social media and web analytics. He also wrote Conversation Marketing: Internet...Etsy Wants to Give Fema...
Etsy , the popular marketplace for all things handmade, just announced that it will not just be hosting the 2012 session of Hacker School at its headquarters in New York, but that it will also offer ten $5,000 grants to women who would like to attend this year’s session but...With JOBS Act Becoming ...
Today, President Obama signs the JOBS Act into law , legalizing crowdfunding in startups by non-accredited investors, so that anyone with a computer can invest. The new law stipulates that entrepreneurs can now raise money from anyone and everyone, however, startups are limited to $1...
Rumblefish Catalog Grow...
Rumblefish , a service where consumers and businesses can easily license music for their online videos, says it now has licensing rights to more than 1 million songs, making it the largest catalog of pre-cleared music. The idea is pretty simple: When you’re posting a video on a...