iOS App Downloads &...
Mobile app marketing company Fiksu just released new data revealing the impact the holiday season had on iOS app downloads and user acquisition costs. According to the company’s App Store Competitive Index , a measurement of the average aggregate download volume of the top 200...On The Heels Of Nabbing...
Two weeks ago, we covered a fast-growing security startup called AlienVault , which had just stolen seven senior HP security executives. At the time, Barmak Meftah, who left HP Fortify to become president and chief executive at AlienVault told us that the allure was the startup’s...
MEDIAS ES N-05D: NEC’...
NEC did it again: about 11 months after unveiling the world’s slimmest smartphone at that time, the company is ready to release another super-thin Android phone with a set of impressive specs (via Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo ). Dubbed MEDIAS ES N-05D [JP], the...SocialCam Is Growing, B...
Having spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android. It passed 3 million downloads in December, and it’s now sending 3 million notifications a day, with video uploads and following counts up by 700% and 800% in...Codecademy Becomes A Pl...
One of the most buzzed-about startups over the last few months has been Codecademy — a site that looks to make programming accessible to just about anyone, with a variety of interactive, web-based courses that have users writing their first lines of code within a few seconds. The...AngelList Launches 2011...
AngelList was founded back in 2010 as a community for startups — part social network, part communication tool — designed to connect first-time entrepreneurs with respected angel investors. At the time, veteran venture capitalist and angel investor Mark Suster said that it was...
Google, Facebook, Priva...
Editor’s note : Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of newly funded just.me . He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Like millions of other people, I got an email from Google this morning. It was entitled “Changes to Google Privacy Policy...Curebit Apologizes for ...
That’s awkward: Just as it was announcing a $1.2 million round of funding , online referral startup Curebit was caught lifting designs and code from 37Signals, the company behind popular collaboration tools Basecamp, Highrise, and others. The copying was called out on Twitter by...Let’s Get Personalize...
Editor’s note: Hank Nothhaft is the co-founder and chief product officer of Trapit , a personalized content discovery platform currently in beta. Trapit was incubated at SRI and the CALO project. eBay’s recent acquisition of the recommendation service Hunch was an important score...