social.venturebeat — Now that we’re little more than a day from the launch of Apple’s social network Ping, reports are coming in that spammers are beginning to target the service — surprising no one. The biggest scam right now appears to be an offer for free iPhones which is popping up on many...
arabcrunch — The future of search is here and it is based on social graph. Facebook has officially entered into Google territory, it is now showing search results from around the web ranked by likes from users’ facebook friends. This means that facebook social search based on users like is up and running a...
venturebeat — Earlier this week, Google launched Gmail Priority Inbox, a new feature that will automatically sort your mail to combat email overload. The feature began rolling out to users on Monday, and as of today, it’s available for all Gmail users (including Google Apps accounts). As Venturebeat’s Anthony Ha (who loves the...
escapefromcubiclenation — Many of you in the U.S. may be headed to family barbecues on Labor Day, where you will meet a variety of your relatives over grilled corn and chicken. In your daily lives, vast numbers of fans may hang on to every word of your marketing or career advice. Or revel...
timberry.bplans — The answer to that question is: no. Not any more than the next person. They just like their business better. They took risks because they saw the goal. It was the dark side of building the company. They had to. But when it comes to savings and investment, no. Well,...
inc — How much money are you planning to pull out of your company this year?If you own your business outright, the decision is yours, but if you have one or more partners, things can get a little dicey, says Jordan Dolgin.Dolgin is a Toronto-based lawyer who specializes in business law and...
inc — If theres such a thing as a socialite in the start-up community, Chris McCann, the co-founder of Startup Digest, would be it.A little more than a year ago, he arrived in Silicon Valley, fresh out of college at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where he graduated with an entrepreneurship degree...
econsultancy — Craigslist is an internet icon, and it's a unique one. Despite the rapid evolution of the internet over the past decade, Craigslist in 2010 still looks like Craigslist in 2000. The fact that Craigslist has managed to thrive largely its original form is a testament to the value it offers.But Craigslist is under assault....
social.venturebeat — Facebook confirmed yesterday that it has begun testing a new “subscribe” feature for users and pages. The feature lets users follow a user or page and receive notifications when a new update or piece of content, such as a picture or video, occurs. The new feature may be a move to...
econsultancy — Social media is all about building long-term relationships with individual customers so they become regular, active users of your site, service or product. Building a relationship to the point where a customer trusts and values your opinion is hard. After all, deep down they know you want to sell them something....
getelastic — If you offer products and services that generate recurring revenue through subscriptions (including software, music, games, media or wireless plans), remarketing to your existing customers is the most important part of your business – as they say, it costs 5 times more to acquire a new customer than to satisfy...
growthology — In 2004, William Gale penned a one-page piece for TaxNotes arguing, "Roughly 97 percent of small businesses would not be affected at all by increases in the top two tax rates." That line has been repeated frequently in light of the upcoming expiration of high-bracket tax cuts. Kevin Hassett and Alan Viard...
xconomy — wwwade, IT, Software Wade Roush wrote: With each new product that Apple announces, including the revamped Apple TV and the new Ping social network, Steve Jobs reveals a little bit more of his plan to dominate the media universe. But I can summarize that plan’s fatal flaw in one word: iTunes. Don’t...
startupmeme — Facebook is trying everything to ensure you have all the features found across every social network on its platform. Even if they are stupid and absolutely pointless. The feature subjected here is the subscribe to a user, which the social network has started to test across some users. The feature would...
avc — Paramendra wrote a post last night that got me thinking about a class of apps that I'll call "mobile first web second". He mentions Twitter and Foursquare and I would agree that both of them are mobile first web second. Back in the early days of Twitter, I sent and read...
econsultancy — I talked in my last post here at Econsultancy about whether the PR industry had missed the boat on SEO. Although there were some differing opinions in the comments, I think the consensus was that the public relations firms could have done more to get into search engine optimisation. Despite this...
venturebeat — Yammer, originally launched as a “Twitter for businesses,” will soon expand its services into a full-on social network like Facebook — built to help streamline workplaces and network business professionals. Along with a redesign to be more social, the Yammer developers are also providing access to developers in order to attract...
xconomy — Biotech, startups, innovation Regis Kelly wrote: “Early to bed, Early to rise, Makes a man healthy, Wealthy and wise.” Attempting to motivate their children to go to bed at a reasonable time, parents have for generations invoked these three time-honored rewards. Probably least compelling was the promise of health. Health is the absence of something–sickness–and...
entrepreneur — Sutus and other devices combine phone, file, e-mail and Web servers into 1 magic box.
mobile.venturebeat — A startup called CardMunch aims to best all the other mobile business card reading applications out there, by offering fast, accurate card transcription. And it wants to become even more helpful with a new feature called Follow Up, which automates the process of sending follow-up emails to people after you’ve...
pehub — The advent of the Internet and such things as private equity blogs and newsletters have proved advantageous in many ways. Wider and faster dissemination of information allowing investors and entrepreneurs to benchmark and measure their operations, terms and attitudes against those of other players in this realm all seems quite...
growthink — Now that September is here, venture capital activity will pick up as usual. That's not to say that tons of VC deals were done over the summer; since they were.Here are a few of the companies who raised venture capital in August that I found really interesting.JiWire: JiWire has created...
inc — The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google is working on a social networking solution to compete with Facebook, although when asked if the solution will resemble Facebook, CEO Eric Schmidt said, "The world doesn't need a copy of the same thing." They are talking with top game developers...
markpeterdavis — It’s not uncommon for one or more of the founders of a startup to decide not to work on the statup full-time after the company’s first institutional financing. Such departures happen for a lot of reasons. Sometimes the founders have a falling out early in the company’s life, in other...
mobile.venturebeat — After months of hearsay and conjecture, Samsung has finally revealed some official details on its Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab. While we still don’t have an official release date or pricing, at least it seems like the tablet will be worth the wait. The Galaxy Tab will have a 7-inch screen...