Path, Google+ And Jack Dorsey At The 2011 Crunchies: Comebacks Win

Path, Google+ And Jack ...

The world loves to celebrate comebacks from failure, but the Crunchies and the companies it features are all so new that the show hasn’t done much of that. That changed last night at the 2011 Crunchies , with Jack Dorsey, Path and Google+ winning big . Path’s story hits home...

Twitter’s Dick Costol...

Does Twitter need Google or does Google need Twitter? It’s a question complicated by recent events, such as the two companies not coming to an agreement to extend their previous partnership through which Google showed Tweets in search results. That deal wasn’t renewed,and...
Hey, Bromasters, Take Your Kenu Highline On The Slopes When You Shred

Hey, Bromasters, Take Y...

So you want to take a photo of you and your buds on the slopes or at the bar or at A&F or whatever and you know, just know you’re going drop that shnitz on the floor. So what do you need? A freakin’ Kevlar cord, Mr. Brojangles. That’s what you need. So this is the...

ScholarPro Intelligentl...

Chicago-based ScholarPro is launching today as an intelligent matching system for students and educational scholarships. Designed to ease the search and application process, ScholarPro’s adaptive matching engine promises to deliver smarter, targeted lists of scholarships. It aims...

14 Steps To Successful ...

This is a guest post by Ryan Spoon (@ ryanspoon ), a principal at  Polaris Ventures . Read more about Ryan on his blog at  ryanspoon.com . For startups, it is dangerous to entirely separate product and marketing – both strategically and organizationally. A great product isn’t...

Dave McClure Isn’t Wo...

In recent months, there’s been some hand-wringing about a “ Series A Crunch ” — namely, a glut of startups raising seed and angel funding, then struggling once they need a proper Series A. But in a recent interview, 500 Startups founder Dave McClure said those...

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...
Google Collected 4.5 Million Anti-SOPA Signatures Today

Google Collected 4.5 Mi...

Google generally gets in hot water when it is thought to be abusing its pole position in the search industry. But it’s no use denying that while some moves skirt the edges of abusing monopoly, others are more than welcome. During natural disasters, for instance, Google has provided...

There Were More Than 2....

Today was the internet’s big protest day against SOPA and PIPA, and not surprisingly, there was plenty of discussion about the issue on Twitter. Specifically, the company tweeted that that there were more than 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets between midnight and 4pm Eastern time....

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...

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