Hate When Companies Don...

If you’ve ever been on the job search, you know how frustrating and time consuming it is to manage the process. (If not, just ask one of the more than 13 million people in the U.S. currently there .) You spend untold hours filling out the right forms and fields, adding more action...
Hands On: The Nintendo Wii U

Hands On: The Nintendo ...

One of the first things I was told when I ducked into one of Nintendo’s suites to play with the Wii U was what they wouldn’t tell me. Price, release date, technical specs, games in development — all of these were taboo topics that would be (and were) met with a gentle...

A Google+ Tempest In A ...

There has been a great quantity of vitriol corroding the social web over the last few days, a reaction to Google’s decision to optionally integrate Google+ features into their search. The complaint, as I understand it, is that some searches bring up Google+ results before they...
Facebook Comments Box Now On Mobile, And Over 400,000 Web Sites

Facebook Comments Box N...

Over 400,000 sites currently use Facebook’s Comments Box social plugin the company tells me, and as of today they all support an optimized mobile commenting experience . Now you can criticize your least favorite bloggers — I mean participate in intelligent discussion while on...
Shazam Launches New App Focused On Lyric Play: Shazam Player

Shazam Launches New App...

iTunes is great and everything, but it’s still just a standard music player. The most exciting feature of the whole program is Genius, at least in my opinion, and even that can be off from time to time. But Shazam wants you to ingest your music a bit differently from here on out,...
Why Cool Startups Are Losers In China

Why Cool Startups Are L...

Editor’s note : Contributor Kai Lukoff is based in Beijing and is co-founder of the startup blog  TechRice . Here’s Hongyi Zhou’s advice to Chinese entrepreneurs: “Don’t try to be cool.” Zhou is CEO of Qihoo 360 (NYSE: QIHU ), whose company’s core...

Tech CEOs Invest $1.1 M...

Tealium , which specializes in enterprise tag management solutions (more on that below), has raised $1.1 million in Series A funding from a bunch of digital marketing CEOs – and former CEOs – including Limelight Networks’ Jeff Lunsford, Collective’s JoeApprendi,...

Twitter Now Distributes...

Twitter has just announced a new partnership with three music data services, The Echo Nest, Gracenote, and Rovi are, to help scale the distribution of Twitter account data for musicians for integration in consumer-facing apps. Via the pilot program, Twitter developers can now work with...

iHeartRadio Launches De...

Clear Channel’s streaming radio service, iHeartRadio , is launching its developer program today, which includes an API that allows third parties to integrate iHeartRadio’s content and services into their own products, websites and applications. iHeartRadio now offers over 850...
With The Clicky Value-Wheel, Groupon Puts The “No” In Innovation

With The Clicky Value-W...

You can say a lot of things about Groupon , but not that they lack a great sense of humor over there. This morning, the company distributed a press release touting a new invention called Clicky , the Clickable Value-Wheel (make sure you watch the behind-the-scenes video below too). The...

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