As we told you Friday, the time to enter the Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition is coming to a close. The competition, announced at The Next Web conference, allows any startup with a mobile app or service in 7 different European markets to apply and compete for €225,000 in prizes. In addition to the opportunity...
With the Federal Trade Commission’s crackdown on privacy extending to mobile devices, the shift in regulations is opening up opportunities for startups that enable advertisers to target mobile users without personally identifying them. The field is still new, but by creating a way to help marketers home in on specific audiences without compromising their...
Zen is so yesterday’s news. The web has diluted the term to the point that anything and everything can be done in a zen-like fashion these days. It’s time that the term be redefined for today’s modern world — which flies in the face of the term itself, I know — so that aspects...
At the same time as the U.S. military is preparing to release a policy qualifying cyberattacks as acts of war, the military of the United Kingdom is engaging in a large-scale recruitment drive. Called “Operation Cupcake” Following from last year’s “National Cyber Security Programme,” this recruiting initiative will attempt to attract hundreds of computer...
One of my favorite startups in the world, Postrank, has been acquired by Google. Here at ReadWriteWeb we use Postrank every day and if Google shuts it down I am going to be sick. New account creation has already been shut off and a shell of the technology is most likely to become a...
The market for electric vehicles is moving more slowly than expected. That’s the consensus from battery makers like Ener1 and Johnson Controls, and that’s also apparent when you look at the earnings statements from companies like lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems, which isn’t yet making much money off of its electric car battery sales....
Nodejitsu, the original Node.js platform-as-a-service, has open-sourced several of its tools, some of which are used in its own production stack. These could be useful to those running their own Node.js servers or private clouds. Some of the tools are very simple, like forever, which ensures that a script runs continuously. Others are more...
For the second week in a row, we are running later in starting this roundup than we would like, so we are going to keep it quick, and we hope, under 1000 words. It’s been an unusually crazy week in the world of Microsoft, with the company showing off Windows 8′s user interface, and even more...
Ahead of next week’s E3 video game conference, Microsoft is trying to position its six year-old Xbox 360 less as a video game console and more as an “all-in-one entertainment device.” In a blog post earlier this week, Microsoft VP of Corporate Communications Frank Shaw talked up the platform’s adoption not just as a...
The summer of 2011 is shaping up to be the season of the tech IPO. The past three weeks have seen the initial public offerings of LinkedIn and Yandex, Groupon’s S-1 filing, and S-1 updates from Kayak and Pandora, to name just a few. And according to a report published today by Bloomberg, social...