Keep an eye on yet-to-be launched Picadee, a new Seattle startup getting some buzz. The company was founded by former iLike employees Marcus Womack, Mike Bohlander, Ray Fortna and Josh Hepfer, and has taken a seed round of funding from iLike founders Ali Partovi and Hadi Partovi. The company isn’t saying what it’s doing...
Daily Archives: June 23, 2011
Booze, BBQ Grills, And Breaking Things: Check Out Facebook’s "Swinging" London HQ
Image: Adam Taylor / Business Insider We were in London last month and thought we would check into Facebook’s London offices, in a swanky area near Carnaby Street. The company announced it was opening an office in 2007 (read Facebook’s blog post about it here). The office opened in January 2008. While Europe’s regional...
Lights, camera… Facebook? Netflix CEO joins board
Facebook announced Thursday it has added Reed Hastings, the chairman and CEO of Netflix, to its board of directors. The addition of Hastings to Facebook’s boardroom is the latest signal of the Palo Alto, California-based social networking giant’s growing focus on the entertainment industry. Although Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has asserted that he has...
Apple cleared for Nortel patent buy by antitrust regulators
Good luck Google and Ericsson. Google does have more money, they can outbid apple by a mile. The only problem I have with Intel getting them is they deal closely with apple and might share them. If apple gets them they’ll probably start a bunch of law suites against other companies for some stupid...
eBay Acquired Magento For Over $180 Million – But Not Everyone Is Smiling
Earlier this month, eBay acquired Magento, developer of an open-source e-commerce platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we’ve heard from multiple sources that the ecommerce and digital payments giant paid north of $180 million for the company, which will become one of the pillars of eBay’s new X.commerce group (alongside PayPal,...
Hacker pleads guilty to hacking AT&T iPad subscriber database
The hacker that gained access to the ATT iPad subscriber database has pled guilty to the charges brought against him, reports Reuters. The hacker had illegally gained access to an ATT database and stolen the subscriber information of 120,000 iPad users on the network. Daniel Spitier, 26, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy...
Incredible: Tribe meets a white person for the first time [Video]
We live in a very, very big world. If you can watch this and not get chills, you should probably check for a pulse. This is video, from 1976, of the first encounter between a Papua New Guinea tribe and a white man. It’s also 15 minutes of time well spent. Article source: TNW...
This Is What Google TV 2.0 Will Look Like (GOOG)
After lackluster reviews last year, Google TV is due for a refresh. Google announced that it was adding its Honeycomb OS to Google TV, allowing it to run apps and adding a fresh look. That was all we heard. Geek.com just scored some screenshots from a limited developer release of the next Google TV....
Check Out Flipboard’s Minimalist, "Inside Of An iPod" Office — And The Huge New One They’re Planning To Move Into (PHOTO TOUR)
Flipboard, the iPad magazine app, has become very popular, thanks in large part to its clean, minimalist design. Flipboard’s corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., share a similar spirit. With bright white walls and desks and lots of natural light, it’s sort of like “the inside of an iPod.” But Flipboard is already outgrowing its...
Why You Should Use Video Analytics
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how security threats can be mitigated by implementing layers of control in this brief from Qwest: Five Network Security Threats and How to Protect Your Business As Web-based video becomes more prominent and more useful for...