Be Concise! – The Top...

As of yesterday Y Combinator began its marathon series of interviews to decide which startup teams will ultimately go through the – now world-renowned – program. Interviews go on for five days. Rumours that people have been seen running screaming from the building shouting...

Finally, Professional S...

Although the iPad has been available for more than two years, LinkedIn has yet to offer its users a native app despite the fact that mobile engagement has been growing at a fast pace for the network. But last August, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said that the company is doubling down on its...

A Closer Look: Facebook...

One thing that has been remarkable about Facebook is its willingness to expand in developing markets that many other consumer Internet companies would otherwise write off because they’re hard to monetize. But that growth abroad plus the company’s increasing headcount and...

With $1.5M From Adecco,...

The job-hunting market today is getting a little more social: Path.to , a kind of About.me-meets-LinkedIn service that lets people create image-filled, sleek professional profiles for themselves online, is today relaunching itself as a network to connect those professionals with job...

Nokia’s New Series 40...

Nokia just rolled out a new browser for Series 40, Asha devices. Browser 2.0 as it’s called features numerous improvements and enhancements, but its cloud-based compression is arguably the most important. Nokia claims that it condenses data by up to 90% making pages load three...

Clicks Be Gone: AdTech ...

Ad-tech may not be the most obvious face of digital advertising, but in a world in which the role of big data is getting ever more essential to how things work, it is taking up an increasingly important role. One sign of that comes from the funding that ad-tech players are getting in...

Peter Chernin’s Media...

A sign of more big money being poured into the tech sector, by way of a new development for the Chernin Group , the digital media company founded by ex-News Corp. executive Peter Chernin: it has sold a minority stake to a group of investors led by Providence Equity Partners , reportedly...

Estonian Accelerator St...

The new Estonian accelerator program Startup Wise Guys , backed by the Estonian government-owned Estonian Development Fund and some former engineers from Skype, has just announced the seven teams it will be working with. Two of them from Estonia and one from Croatia, Ukraine, Germany,...

TA Associates Invests I...

Q&A platform Answers.com is announcing a ‘significant’ minority investment from private equity firm TA Associates. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Answers operates a community-generated Q&A site at Answers.com, and was acquired by AFCV Holdings ,...

The Billion Dollar Mind...

Editor’s Note: This article is co-authored by Nir Eyal and Jason Hreha . Nir is the founder of two acquired startups and blogs at NirAndFar.com . Jason is the founder of Dopamine , a user-experience and behavior design firm. He blogs at persuasive.ly . Yin asked not to be identified by...