Ah, true love. Everyone was surprised — even Michael Arrington was left speechless and said he was “discombobulated” — after Julia Hu was proposed to onstage during her special product announcement at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. Hu, CEO and founder of LARK, was near the end of her presentation when someone called...
When Facebook acquired Beluga this past March, it was an interesting deal for them. Interesting, because they previously had only done deals for talent. But this deal, they told us, was for both talent and assets. In other words, they were also interested in the technology behind Beluga. More importantly, the plan was to...
August Capital was doing very late stage deals when most VCs refused to. And its early 2000 era buyout of Seagate was one of the better returns in the firm’s history. So why is it mostly sitting out this round of late-stage mega-deal mania? In the final segment of our Ask a VC on...
In this week’s episode of OMG/JK, Jason and I start off with a preview of what may be coming at Apple’s WWDC event next week in San Francisco. Then we get into what Google unveiled at their NFC event in New York City last week. And finally, we talk about Twitter’s move into the...
The tech scene in China is unlike anything around the world — what’s surprising is that despite its uniqueness, it’s a model that is proven to work. Chinese entrepreneurs, despite mostly focused only on China as compared to foreign tech companies looking to expand globally, see plenty of potential for growth, and that’s what...
Let’s be honest: One of the reasons David Hornik actually agreed to be on camera at All Things D is that he didn’t have a startup about to file to go public any second. So we talked about some of his more high profile investments that haven’t always lived up to the hype. Hornik...
Wow, that’s an interesting little scheme…Makes you think that we’ll be seeing that Statesside soon, probably at Times Square or something. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/tlvleHOiRMg/
Is Twitter like a spoken conversation, the kind you would have with friends and/or strangers in a bar? Or is it more like a written discussion — like online forums or chat rooms used to be in the early days of the Internet? One of the things that can make Twitter hard to define,...
We’re always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us. Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/X9vUwd27VfE/readwriteweb_events_guide_june_4_2011.php
