Another week, another Facebook privacy firestorm. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based social networking giant came under fire once again this week for potentially violating users’ privacy, after online security firm Sophos issued an alert Tuesday that Facebook had quietly turned on facial recognition technology worldwide. Facebook is using the technology to suggest how users should...
Custom men’s clothing company J. Hilburn is expanding its product line to suits today and raised a $5 million C round from Bridgescale Partners and existing investor Battery Ventures. That brings the total capital invested in the Dallas startup to $12 million. The funds will be used to accelerate its development of new products...
The business of helping people save money on the web just keeps getting bigger. Digital coupon company Coupons.com has closed on a $200 million funding round brokered by boutique investment bank Allen Company. About half of this round will be used to cash out early investors and stock-holding employees at the company, which was...
Doxo is a service designed to act as a ‘digital file cabinet’ for your household bills and important documents. You can even sign up to get bills from participating companies sent paper-free to your Doxo locker. Until now, it’s been entirely Web-based but today sees the launch of an iPhone app that takes the service...
It looks like Coupons.com may have just become the Airbnb of mega-million dollar raises at billion dollar valuations. Today, Coupons.com, the largest provider of digital coupons, announced that it has received a $200 million investment from a group of institutional investors, including several mutual funds. (The company has thus far declined to disclose the...
Bloomberg reports that YouTube is currently in talks with major mobile operators, as well as handset manufacturers to pool efforts to reduce the impact of video content on clogged telecommunications networks. Andrey Doronichev, a YouTube executive that handles the company’s mobile offering, said in an interview that they are “in the middle of the...
Mashup developer Jeffrey Winter was thinking about Wikipedia one day and specifically about a rumor that if you followed the first link on any Wikipedia entry that you’d eventually land on the page for Philosophy. So, nerd that he must surely be, he built a web interface to trace this phenomenon and visualize it....
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. HP introduced a new modular data center at HP Discover this week that...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Oracle recently published details of the Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure,...
Back in the salad days of ecommerce, I worked for a website that sold cars. Sounds a little odd but it worked, though not well enough to best its competitors, one of whom absorbed it. As the only marcom guy there, I was approached often for the inevitable side-projects my co-workers were launching. One...