venturebeat — Undisputed fact I just made up: The more time we spend online, the dumber and more myopic we get. Hacker Noah Litvin set out to combat that observable phenomenon with DailyPag.es, an app that works a lot like an online book club. The app is a simple, email-based system that delivers a...
venturebeat — “In college, I wanted someone to talk to about being gay and found someone through Craigslist. Clearly a poor decision in retrospect, despite the fact that I did end up finding a mentor who helped me come out. “However, I don’t want other naive youngsters to be forced to make...
venturebeat — 23-year-old Chen Jung-yu was found dead at an internet cafe in New Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday night. Jung-yu was rigid in his chair with hands on the keyboard and mouse, according to local police. He had been playing the popular online multiplayer game World of Warcraft when he died (though another...
venturebeat — Comedian Pauly Shore spent the month of January shilling for a web startup, YouToo, by participating in a contest on the site. We asked him why he thought a partnership with the relatively unknown startup was a good idea. “People will ask me to do things once in a while,” he said....
entrepreneur — Keep up with the ever changing American workplace with these 10 trends.
venturebeat — Following scheduled maintenance last week, the Playstation Network store in Europe, Australia and New Zealand is no longer working for many users. The problem, reported widely across the European Playstation forums, is that no content can be downloaded from the store, and download lists of previously purchased content are inaccessible. With...
feld — I first heard the word “grinfucker” a decade or so ago from a close friend who was a former investment banker. He said, in response to a meeting we were in with a person who was very polite and charming “he’s such a grinfucker.” I loved the word and, as...
avc — This is the kind of thing that happens in the age of the Internet and Kickstarter. My daughter Emily told me one of her friends was involved in opening an art gallery and they are using Kickstarter to raise the funds to make it happen. In their own words, the "Teen...
venturebeat — Now that Facebook is fast on its way to becoming a public company, and its financials have been laid bare, there’s just one question that remains unanswered: What is Facebook actually worth? A private market transaction completed Thursday may provide us with best the answer yet. One hundred thousand Class B...
venturebeat — Anonymous defaced the website of law firm Puckett Faraj this morning and leaked e-mails concerning the sergeant accused of handling 2005′s Haditha Massacre in Iraq. Sergeant Frank Wuterich was charged with a 2005 US Marine raid in Iraq, which killed 24 unarmed civilians. Wuterich was convicted of negligent dereliction, ending his...
askthevc — I get asked this question many times in many different ways. Sometimes people are coy about it (“someone is expressing strategic interest – what should I do?”) other times people are clear and direct (“someone wants to acquire my company – help!”). David Cohen, the CEO of TechStars, has encountered this...
37signals — We’re seven members strong now and we’re able to add a lot of things our customers have been seeking. The bigger team also lets each of us work on support projects other than answering emails lightning fast. Since our syops, developers and designers have been rightly bragging about the great...
pehub — (Reuters) - It’s the year’s hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients. The world’s biggest social network is expected to seek a $75 billion to $100 billion valuation in its IPO, the most anticipated stock offering from Silicon Valley...
entrepreneur — The Seattle coffee chain is holdings auditions to cast "hot young girls as servers" for a new reality show. A recent Tampa casting call, however, came up short.
entrepreneur — Blogging is increasingly popular, but that doesn't mean it's right for your small business. Here are some reasons you might want to hold off on blogging.
venturebeat — VentureBeat is proud to announce our second annual Mobile Summit, where we are once again inviting 180 top mobile executives, investors, and policymakers to discuss five significant issues facing the mobile industry. The event will be held at the beautiful Cavallo Point Resort (just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San...
venturebeat — Streaming video service Hulu is adding a huge collection of PBS television shows to its content library, the company announced Thursday. The new content is available with commercials to all Hulu plus users, while premium subscribers of Hulu Plus can watch it commercial-free. Some of the shows now available include Ken...
venturebeat — Xero, a small business online accounting service, announced today it has received $16.6 million in its latest round of funding. PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel participated in the round. “Xero was founded in 2006 in New Zealand, started by a few entrepreneurs who struggled to get the right financial information...
venturebeat — The case of the “stolen” Twitter followers may or may not have merit, but its claims passed a second litmus test this week. In the matter of PhoneDog versus Noah Kravitz, a U.S. district court judge ruled to allow the plaintiff, mobile review site PhoneDog, to move forward with amended claims...
venturebeat — Anonymous hacker via Flickr commons It’s the sort of gamesmanship that keeps readers turning the pages in a spy novel. The FBI says that Anonymous, the loose knit collective of global hackers, intercepted a highly sensitive call between American cybercrime experts and their counterparts at Scotland Yard discussing, what else, Anonymous. “The...
venturebeat — Facebook faces some real challenges when it comes to keeping up its growth pace, as I covered yesterday. But I’m still bullish on the company, and here’s why. Massive audience and social graph Facebook has a connected audience like no other. Its social graph connects 845 million people around the world through 100...
thenextwomen — As part of the UK government's support package for women's enterprise, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone last week met entrepreneur Liz Hollingshead who runs the successful Walton Thorns Farm Holiday Cottages in rural Leicestershire. It is hoped that many other women will be helped to realise their business ambitions, as £2million funding will soon be...
thenextwomen — Whilst I love to read interviews with some of the world's leading female entrepreneurs right here on The NextWomen, it is equally inspiring and heart-warming to hear stories of women running much smaller enterprises in developing countries. It makes me immensely proud to be a woman when I hear how some women are changing...
xconomy — Robert DiLoreto Boston startups should be focusing more on creating strategic partnerships with big companies. An “if we build it, they will come” mindset appears to dominate the Boston startup scene. Too many startups also rely mostly on a pricing and plans revenue model combined with implementing the latest inside sales and...
entrepreneur — Three ways small businesses can turn stories into ads and digital content without a Super Bowl-size budget.