K3 Server Is Making Ent...

How is data moved between systems? In the enterprise environment, point-to-point application interfaces are either handled with expensive and cumbersome utilities or, more likely, with custom code…and frankly, a lot of manual labor. BroadPeak Partners has a better idea. The company...

Major Steal: King.com P...

King.com , the European-casual-gaming-company-that-could, is cementing its ascendance on the Facebook platform by poaching one of the key producers responsible for EA’s Sims Social and opening a new game development studio in London. The company just hired Catharina Mallet away...
UberConference Aims To Fix Crappy Conference Calls

UberConference Aims To ...

We all hate conference calls — having to dial in, manually enter a room code and sometimes having to enter a passcode on top of that. Once you’ve actually logged in, there’s a whole lot of talking on top of one another, and a lot of re-introducing yourself so that...

Saygent Launches In-App...

Apple’s Siri has been transforming how people interact with their phones. It taught us that’s it’s not just OK to talk to our phones, but that, in many cases, it’s actually a more useful way to get things done. Along those same lines, a company called Saygent is...

From A Disrupt Win To $...

Disrupt NYC 2012 begins in approximately 12 hours ( tickets here ). But it’s been two years since Soluto, the software that will make your computer simply run better, took home the Disrupt Cup at the TC Disrupt NYC Battlefield in 2010 . The company entered the competition with a...
Silicon Valley Can Do Better Than Facebook

Silicon Valley Can Do B...

Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital . Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip . Congratulations to Facebook for going public. Congratulations to the employees that are...

GameStop To Sell SIM Ca...

GameStop is hurting. Same store sales fell 5 and revenue was down 17% to $2 billion. Profit fell to $72.5 million. Arguably, those are still huge numbers and presumably a new console refresh should push the company out of the doldrums. But what the company has just launched – a new...
From A Hackathon Win To A 650K Round And 10,000 Users, Docracy Tells All

From A Hackathon Win To...

The tale of Docracy’s year-long journey is a fun one. When Matt Hall and his partner John Watkinson first went into the Hackathon last year, the only goal was to get a prototype working for an idea they had, a GitHub for legal documents. Sure, a win would’ve been nice, but...

FastCustomer Unleashes ...

“People are sick of shitty customer service,” said FastCustomer co-founder, Stephanie Hay. And she and her team aim to do something about it. Their first product, for the iPhone , Android, and other platforms, allowed you to search for a customer service number – say...

The Google AdSense Kill...

Tiny sidebar and news feed ads aren’t going to cut it. If Facebook wants to live up to a $104 billion valuation it will need bold new revenue streams. An offsite ad network, big glossy news feed ads, or and payments for physical goods are a few ways it could boost its average...

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