At the TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield finals going on now, after Sonar CEO’s product demo. TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington asked founder Brett Martin, how much he spent to build the service which introduces you to people relevant around you. When Martin replied that Sonar took around $250K to date to build, Arrington commented, “This is...
Fans of Minecraft, the popular building block game, have long been waiting for a mobile version. iOS and Android versions have been “in the works” since early this year, but now there are a few more details available. We still don’t know when the mobile versions of Minecraft will be released, but we do...
The New York Times is breaking up with the bot that automatically tweets every article that goes up on the newspaper’s website. Instead, New York Times content will be curated by a team of social media editors who are much more interactive and collaborative online, @replying users and retweeting interesting non-New York Times content....
Twitter officially confirmed its long-rumored acquisition of TweetDeck on Wednesday morning in a company blog post written by CEO Dick Costolo. Soon after Twitter’s announcement, TweetDeck also confirmed the deal in a company blog post penned by its CEO Iain Dodsworth. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Twitter/TweetDeck rumors have been flying around...
Today, Microsoft released a version of its ‘Onit’ application for iPhone and iPad. The application is the progeny of MSN. MSN. Remember it? It still exists, if you didn’t know, and people still use it. Millions, in fact. We all know how wildly inaccurate Alexa is, but its ranking of MSN as the 11th...
Everyone is passing around the fold-out cover of the June 2011 Fast Company, featuring Conan O’Brien. The magazine editors transformed him into some of the biggest innovators in history: Madonna, Steve Jobs, Moses, Albert Einstein, Teddy Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Socrates and Ben Franklin. Conan, named one of the 100 most creative people in business,...
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Silicon Valley electric car company Tesla announced this morning that it is offering an additional 5.3 million shares of its common stock, and in a separate move both Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Daimler affiliate Blackstar Investco, plan to buy additional Tesla shares in a private placement at the public offering price. Tesla said...
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It’s been exactly one year since mobile ad network AdMob was officially acquired by Google for $750 million, after intense scrutiny of the deal by the FTC. Over the past year, Google has been working to integrate AdMob into the company, and clearly there have been some highs and lows. Today, As AdMob-Google turns...