Here at TechCrunch Disrupt Investor Chris Dixon interviewed Quora founder Charlie Cheever about the future of Quora and sundry other things namely how to avoiding becoming Yahoo answers. Said Cheever, “One of the goals we have for Quora is to have all types of people sharing all types of knowledge. I would image a...
With consumer startups getting most of the press, it’s easy to forget that there exists an enormous enterprise software market prime for disruption. How enormous? Gartner estimated that the overall size of the 2010 enterprise software spend was a whopping $245B. Hoping to get ahead of the curve, clever entrepreneurs and investors are looking...
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Path founder and CEO Dave Morin unveiled the latest version of the privacy-focused photo sharing app. And it brings with it one key, new feature that could change how you use the service: Stacks. The feature is probably best described as a combination of Path’s core photo sharing experience and...
A new study indicates that the average 22-year old in the UK claims to have a thousand or more friends on social media sites such as Facebook. Indeed, the study by consumer research specialists Intersperience revealed that people in their twenties have more than fifty times the amount of cyber-friends than those over fifty...
Image: http://www.digitaltimes.ie See Also: The Engineer Who Left Foursquare For Facebook Has Already Left Facebook Path, a social network for small groups of people, is launching a new feature today called Stats. Stats tracks what people, places, and things its users tag in their photos. It then lists the top three things that are...
As one of the most prolific users of Twitter with over 6.6 million followers it makes some sort of sense that Ashton Kutcher would end up with his own Twitter client. It’s called A.plus and it’s made by UberMedia, the creators of Echofon and Twidroid, so it’s got a good pedigree. A.plus features all of...
The key to success in start-ups is making sure you’re young, experienced and not the only founder. That’s the takeaway from a new survey conducted by SV Angel of successful start-ups. The survey, which has gotten response from 300 start-ups that have been funded by SV Angel, looked at what goes into a successful...
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When it comes to public interaction with the stock market, the ability to trade stocks online has completely changed the game. With abundant financial information on the Web, through a little research, more people than ever before have joined in on an activity once reserved for a relationship between the broker and a trader....
The best course of action for iOS developers faced with patent infringement suit threats issued by patent holding firm Lodsys earlier this month might be to play nice with licensing requests, according to one intellectual property researcher. Florian Mueller, who runs the FOSS Patents blog that posted an in-depth FAQ for concerned developers last...