Streaming media is the future. You know this if you’ve used Netflix, Rdio, Grooveshark or any of the other popular music services. Apple is said to be getting into the game as well and a recently-released patient application from 2009 shows iTunes streaming will in fact offer something different from the rest of the...
ATT’s Jon Summers Yesterday I took a tour of ATT’s Foundry space in Plano, Texas. I interviewed Jon Summers, SVP of application and service infrastructure at ATT, with other reporters, to try to understand the shift ATT is making in how it approaches buying goods and services and brings new technologies and applications to...
ATT’s Jon Summers Yesterday I took a tour of ATT’s Foundry space in Plano, Texas. I interviewed Jon Summers, SVP of application and service infrastructure at ATT, with other reporters, to try to understand the shift ATT is making in how it approaches buying goods and services and brings new technologies and applications to...
The 2008 United States presidential election, the 56th in the nation’s history, started surprisingly early. The first candidate to declare for the office, the since-disgraced Democratic senator John Edwards, did so two years prior to the election. 2012′s candidates have not been quite so quick off the blocks. But they are slowly assembling and...
LinkedIn, the first of the major social networks to file for an initial public offering, is absolutely killing it out of the gate – the professional networking site’s share value debuted at $83 with a valuation northwards of $7 billion. LinkedIn initially priced its shares at $45 this morning, which was the high end...
Now that LinkedIn has stock is trading publicly,, you can buy and sell shares of the company on the New York Stock Exchange. But its shares have traded before privately among wealthy individuals and other accredited investors on secondary markets such as SecondMarket. The chart above shows the price history of LinkedIn’s stock between...
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, held his first ever interactive QA session with Twitter followers today, and TechCrunch Europe was the only external party allowed in to witness the event. To some extent I was also there to verify the event actually happened! The session, which was not pre-announced, used the hashtag #AskBoris...
LinkedIn’s huge debut today may have left some money on the table for initial investors, but it was still very lucrative especially for founder Reid Hoffman, who is now worth $2 billion more based a market cap of $10 billion. With shares jumping from $45 at its opening to well past $100 and trading...
LinkedIn’s huge debut today may have left some money on the table for initial investors, but it was still very lucrative especially for founder Reid Hoffman, who is now worth $2 billion more based a market cap of $10 billion. With shares jumping from $45 at its opening to well past $100 and trading...
Khosla Ventures, the firm of influential venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, is raising a new $1.05 billion fund — Khosla Ventures IV — according to an SEC filing. The filing comes just a little over a year since the firm closed on $1.3 billion for two funds, Khosla Ventures III and Khosla Ventures Seed Fund....