TidePool Raises $1.5 Mi...
TidePool , a startup that is trying to determine consumer personality from photos, has raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by Mike Hirshland of Resolute.VC and Michael Dearing of Harrison Metal Capital. Participating investors include Jarl Mohn, Tim Draper, Peggy and Jim Davis, and...
HTC Titan II Review: He...
The HTC Titan II has already gone through the Fly or Die ringer , but the real determining factor for these phones is the level of competition surrounding them. In the case of the Titan II , the HTC/Microsoft partnership is most threatened by more HTC and Windows-powered phones, namely...Startups.com Is Shuttin...
Daily deal community for website owners Startups.com is shutting down. In an email sent out to its mailing list subscribers, founder Gonzo Arzuaga admits that the company just “couldn’t make a go of it.” “We didn’t achieve the ambitious goals we set for...
Cooking The Books: Yaho...
“You guys might want to cover this before he resigns tomorrow,” one hardcore reader emailed in this evening. And yes indeed, newish Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s “ inadvertent error ” about which degree he got in college is looking like it could cost him his...
Confirmed: Scalado’s ...
At RIM’s keynote earlier this week, CEO Thorsten Heins unveiled a brand new camera app that will ship along with BlackBerry 10. It was quite impressive. It basically lets you snap a pic, select a subject’s face, and sift through frames captured before the moment you pressed...IBM Acquires Tealeaf To...
Another week, another IBM acquisition . Big Blue has announced the purchase of Tealeaf Technology , which provides customer experience analytics software that helps organizations access information about consumer web experiences. Financial details were not disclosed. Basically,...
Vungle Hustles Its Way ...
Vungle , a new company that wants to help mobile developers market their apps through video “trailers,” has just raised an enormous $2 million seed round from the who’s who of Silicon Valley. The round includes Google Ventures , AOL Ventures [Disclosure: TechCrunch is...Next-Generation Publish...
YC company Hyperink, a next-generation digital book publishing platform, is debuting a new service which helps bloggers create short books from their existing content. As we’ve reported in the past , Hyperink wants to disrupt the book publishing world. The startup’s digital...