SoftKinetic And Intel P...

Startup SoftKinetic just announced a new kind of advertising, one that combines its gesture-control technology with Intel’s video analytics. The goal is for people to walk up to a digital display equipped with SoftKinetic’s 3D camera and move their arms (or the rest of their...

DMARC Promises A World ...

Some 15 companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal plan to jointly work on a standard for blocking phishing e-mails by verifying that they come from legitimate companies. It seems obvious that trusted, legitimate companies could come together to do this, but...

Y Combinator Names Seas...

Y Combinator has just announced the newest partner to join the prestigious firm: Geoff Ralston . Ralston’s previous credentials include founding Four11, which was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997 for $96 million and served as the foundation for Yahoo Mail. Ralston spent eight years...

Flurry: Amazon’s Kind...

Wuh oh, Samsung — better watch your tail. While Apple might not be seeing any impact (be it positive or negative) on iPad sales from the launch of the Kindle Fire, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab ought to be feeling the heat. Tapping into the data provided by their app analytics platform...

At Least Yahoo’s User...

Yahoo’s fourth quarter results are as underwhelming as most people expected: earnings were at $0.24 a share from $1.17 billion in revenue. But some of the brightest spots, beyond new chief executive Scott Thompson now taking the helm , are the engagement numbers. Take a look at the...

Google Consolidates Pri...

Google has more than 70 different privacy documents over its range of products, which overwhelming for any user to comb through (and that’s after Google pared down its policies in 2010). Today, the search giant is rolling out a new, comprehensive privacy policy which the company...

Yahoo Earnings Meet Exp...

Yahoo just released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2011, with results that were basically in line with the expectations of Wall Street analysts . The company earned 24 cents per share, which is what analysts estimated, and what the company delivered during the same quarter...
The TechFellow Awards: Nominate Innovators To Win $100K Angel Funds

The TechFellow Awards: ...

The TechFellow Awards is different. Rather than just recognizing outstanding innovators, each of its 20 winners receives $100,000 to invest in startups of their choice. Its purpose? To fund the next generation of high-tech entrepreneurship. Today, Founders Fund , TechCrunch, and New...

Baseline, Accel Put $15...

Online privacy certification company TRUSTe has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Baseline Ventures with existing investors Accel Partners, DAG Ventures and Jafco Ventures participating. This brings TRUSTe’s total funding to $37 million. TRUSTe certifies that companies...
Reuters Launches TV Channel, Bringing 10 New & Original Shows To YouTube

Reuters Launches TV Cha...

The move to bring original programming to the web continues to heat up this week, with today’s announcement of Reuters TV , a new YouTube channel featuring ten new commentary and analysis shows from the news and media division of Thomson Reuters. The new channel joins nearly 100...

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