Kickstarter is a source of seemingly endless iPhone accessories just waiting to raise the funds to come to market, but this one caught our eye. iBamboo is an alternative to mains or battery-powered iPhone speaker systems, instead using the natural power of… bamboo. Yes, US-based Triangle Tree (whose other products include an edible spoon)...
Daily Archives: June 9, 2011
With A $9 Million B Round, Taykey Targets Social Interests With Ads In Realtime
Social advertising is the next hot thing, and startups are starting to come out of the woodworks with different approaches. One to watch is Taykey, a startup we first wrote about a year ago, but which is which is launching today with a fresh $9 million B round from Crescent Point, Sequoia, and Softbank...
Apple orders App Store listing service to drop the term “App Store”
With the Apple App Store copyright issue far from being resolved, Apple has begun issuing cease and desist orders to websites using the term, including the Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP), as it tries to defend its trademark. Just a day after it announced iOS 5 to the world, Apple sent a cease and desist letter to...
How to get the most out of a meeting with us
We get a lot of requests from aspiring entrepreneurs to meet for coffee and look at their ideas. They want feedback, or they are looking for funding, or they hope to get a review here. In general we love meeting ambitious entrepreneurs to talk about new ideas. We also have our own work though...
Steve Case and Jerry Levin reunite to accelerate health technology
Former AOL CEO Steve Case and former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, who together presided over one of the worst mergers in corporate history, are reuniting again to help spur innovation in health and wellness. Levin, a board director with health information start-up OrganizedWisdom is launching a new strategic initiative called StartUp Health designed to...
Looks like that story of a woman getting her Facebook friends tattooed on her arm was just a hoax.
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The Company That Powers Facebook And Apple Looks Set For A Red-Hot IPO
Image: SpaceX Fusion-io, the company that makes flash memory chips that big companies including Facebook and Apple use in their datacenters, has priced its IPO above-range at $19 a range, or a $1.5 billion IPO valuation, AllThingsD reports. Not only that, but brokers seem to be getting orders well above that, so it looks...
This Guy Did These Amazing Drawings With Just A Mechanical Pencil
Image: Joe Fenton / Behance.net Wow. Joe Fenton is an artist who does amazingly intricate drawings — and all with just a mechanical pencil. They’re going viral on Tumblr and Twitter right now so we thought we’d share them with you. This series is called Genesis 2010 and is hosted on Behance.net, the online...
Tattoo of 152 Facebook friends is just a hoax
Just a few hours ago, the Internet was having a collective laugh at the woman who got a tattoo of the profile pictures of 152 of her Facebook friends. Dutch newspaper The Telegraaf has crashed your party: the story is a hoax. The tattoo artist named in the original story, Dex Moelker, told the...