Have some cheese with that wine. Flash-sales wine site Lot18 launched a new vertical, gourmet food sales, today. Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/ZLu1yHc-LG8/have-some-wine-with-that-cheese-flash-sales-wine-site-lot18-launched-a-new-vertical-gourmet-food-sales-today-2011-6
Daily Archives: June 27, 2011
Answers.com Gets Gutted By Its New Owner: Massive Layoffs, CEO And CTO Out
AFCV Holdings, a portfolio company of growth equity investor Summit Partners, is axing the majority of people working for QA site Answers.com parent company Answers Corporation, which it acquired earlier this year for $127 million in cash. According to Israeli business paper Calcalist, 45 out of 65 employees in the company’s offices in Israel...
WatchDox Creates Pricey New Private Cloud for Secure Document Sharing
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. WatchDox is extending its services to the private cloud. We’ve written about them...
Texting Startup GroupMe Snags A Partnership With Paris Hilton
Image: AP See Also: $41 Million Startup Color Is Forced Into An Early, Buzzword-Laden Pivot Paris Hilton is trying to make a comeback, and she’s bringing year-old GroupMe along for the ride (via AllThingsD). TV ads for her new Oxygen show, “The World According to Paris,” will feature the group texting app. They will...
Boingo Wireless Partners With Gogo For In-Flight Internet Access
Boingo Wireless is expanding its reach to the skies today with a new partnership with Gogo, a company that powers wireless internet connectivity on airplanes. With the new partnership, Boingo customers can now log in to Gogo using their existing Boingo account (as opposed to using or creating a Gogo account). Boingo says that...
Nokia Siemens is up against the wall
Nokia Siemens Networks, the telecommunications gear joint venture between Siemens and Nokia, is running out of options. The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that the companies couldn’t find a private equity buyer for the gear maker, and that they were thinking of putting more money into the entity. However, throwing good money after...
LivingSocial acquires Middle Eastern group buying site GoNabit: The inside story
In what is probably the biggest acquisition in the Middle East since Yahoo bought Maktoob, GoNabit has earned itself yet another accolade, as the first e-commerce acquisition in the region, with LivingSocial on the other end of the deal. GoNabit, one of several group buying sites in the Middle East, has a number of...
New MacBook Airs are coming. Here is why
The MacBook Air looks destined for a refresh very soon, and the latest sign is that Best Buy began listing existing models as “Not Available for Shipping” over the weekend (via 9t05Mac). The retailer is thought to be shifting its remaining stock to stores to make room in the distribution center for the arrival of...
BBC Click’s Kate Russell on why b.TWEEN 3D is a must-attend immersive conference
It’s probably fair to say that the technology conference circuit has far too many ‘me-too’ events with the same old speakers and the same old ideas being discussed. b.TWEEN 3D, taking place on 21 July in London, aims to be a breath of fresh air from all of this. Now in its seventh year,...
Fake ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ accused of using new hoax ID to defend himself
Barely two weeks after his name was plastered across the media, where he was widely lambasted for taking on the persona of Amina Arraf, a fictional Syrian activist and blogger writing as a Gay Girl in Damascus, Tom MacMaster has seemingly done it again. On a blog post at Mondoweiss which criticizes MacMaster for...