The Uphill Battle Of So...
Editor’s note : Mark Hendrickson is the founder and CEO of Plancast , a social site for planning events, which he has decided to stop working on full-time. In this guest post, Hendrickson takes us through a detailed analysis of why it never took off and what he learned. He is also...
Tagged: Four Years Prof...
Social network Tagged seems to have found a model that works — the company says that 2011 was its fourth consecutive profitable year, and that its revenue grew 35 percent to more than $43 million. At the same time, Tagged became an aggressive buyer of other startups. It announced its...Verizon To Light Up Fiv...
While AT&T may be hitting a few roadblocks on their path to 4G LTE expansion, Verizon LTE seems to be spreading like wildfire. It feels like just yesterday that Verizon rolled out 4G LTE service to its first batch of U.S. markets, and now over a year later 200 million Americans are...Remote DJ’ing App Pla...
Finnish startup PlayMySong , the crowdsourced music DJ’ing service that lets a store’s customers remotely program the stereo, has just closed a round of seed funding totaling $350,000. The round was led by Lifeline Ventures, a Helsinki-based accelerator focused on funding...AT&T Eyeing Up Dish...
Shortly before the AT&T/T-Mobile merger came to its ignominious end , Dish Network CEO Joseph Clayton casually expressed his interest in a partnership with T-Mobile as a means of bringing wireless voice service to Dish customers. Those plans may not pan out if AT&T has anything...
Cyber Security Startup ...
In September 2010, HP acquired Fortify Software for what Forbes reported was about $265 million and was later folded into HP’s Software Division. Founded in 2003, Fortify makes products and services designed to protect companies from security threats in business software...
A Fantasy App Store? CB...
Depending on your familiarity, it might come as a surprise that fantasy sports is a huge business. In fact, according to the Fantasy Sports Ad Network , its total market impact is upwards of $4.5 billion. Oh yes, we love our sports. For the uninitiated, fantasy sports pretty much just...
Partner, Investor: Japa...
Back in March of last year, we wrote about how video curation seemed to be growing up, or at least taking some strides forward. Its progress being evidenced in part by a young startup called ShortForm , a social network for video jockeys. Or, better said, ShortForm is attempting to let...Splash.FM: A Music Disc...
Oh, you liked that band since before they were cool? Now you can prove it with Splash.FM . Launching in private beta today, the music social network lets you share songs and raise your Splash score when you help others discover them. Splash.FM lets you follow other tastemakers and...