Nifty: Smart Car Uses H...

Now this is a pretty nifty use of a corporate Twitter account. Smart Car’s Argentinian division has filled practically its entire Twitter stream — which is currently 456 Tweets long — with ASCII art images. Check it out for yourself: While on the @SmartArg Twitter page,...

HugeFan.com Wants To Co...

Maybe you love Tim Tebow. Or maybe it’s Lady Gaga that tickles your fancy. Whoever the celebrity may be, we’re all huge fans at one point or another, which is why a new startup out of The Fort in D.C. is ready to connect you to your idols in new and interesting ways....

Notion Ink Scraps High-...

We’ve always been interested in the Notion Ink project, which has always striven to be a true alternative to both the iPad and Android masses. Last time, it was through both a Pixel Qi screen and an interesting custom interface, but delays and yield problems more or less buried it...

Twitter Nabs Former Sal...

After hiring a new VP of Communications , Twitter is adding key engineering staff. Chris Fry, a former exec at Salesforce, has joined Twitter as VP of Engineering. According to Fry’s LinkedIn profile , he was previously the Senior Vice President of Development at Salesforce, where...

Twitter Puts Its Foot D...

A warning: You can only spam Twitter so much before it brings in the law. As Twitter grows — the company now claims to have 140 million active users — naturally, it’s become an attractive target for spammers, which have collectively made their drek a familiar part of...

Wipe It! Security Hole ...

There’s panic about a security hole in Facebook’s iOS and Android apps that surfaced this week , but the threat of identity theft is being blown out of proportion. You only need to worry if your phone is actually stolen, and even then a hacker would need it to be jailbroken,...

Mobile Ad Wars: Augme S...

After debuting on the New York Stock Exchange last week with a huge pop in stock value, mobile ad network Millennial Media is now facing potential legal trouble from another mobile ad player. The company is facing a patent lawsuit by mobile marketing service, Augme Technologies ....

Twitter Nabs Googler Ga...

Back in November, we reported that Sean Garrett , Twitter’s Head of Comms, would be stepping down from his post. As he tweeted at the time, for the first time in his career, he would be taking more than a two week break between jobs. Since Garrett stepped down, Karen Wickre, who...

Twitter To Set Up Offic...

The state of Michigan is changing — a burgeoning startup scene has taken the stage , and what some may call a tech renaissance has swept across the state, namely in Detroit. So it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Twitter , one of the biggest names in tech, is opening an...

Keen On… Gina Bianchi...

Gina Bianchini is best known, of course, as the co-founder and former CEO of  Ning , the social community aggregator which Glam Media bought for $150 million last year. And now (ding dong), Bianchini is back with a new start-up, a social software company called Mightybell, which she...