When Comcast announced that it would be partnering with Skype to bring video chat to the living room of its subscribers, there was some question about whether or not it would succeed where other home-video-chat services failed. For the service to really take off, it would need to be drop-dead simple: After all, Mom...
Here’s one way to invoke your inner rageface: stumble upon an ATM receipt that shows a $100,000,000 balance on your innocent evening walk. I would have liked to have seen the look on the face of the individual who found this. The receipt, Dealbreaker has found, actually belongs to hedge fund manager David Tepper, whose...
Former EA executive, KPCB sFund lead and all around inspiring person Bing Gordon led a talk today at the sFund Gamification Summit. In his talk Gordon broke down platitudes like “gamification is important” into key actionable takeaways on how succeed with gamification, takeaways that could be reformatted and applied to any company. When asked...
Amazon is lowering the cost of Amazon Web Services Data Transfer from July 1st, the company announced to customers via email today. Inbound data transfer currently costs $0.10 per gigabyte, and will cost absolutely nothing after the changes kick in. For outgoing data, the tiers have been slashed considerably. They now range from $0.120...
PapayaMobile, a Beijing-based social gaming network, aims to introduce Western Android game developers to the Chinese market with its ‘Gateway to China’ program. China is a challenging market for game developers due to the enforced regulations, not to mention the lack of Android Marketplace on all legally sold Android phones. However, being the world’s largest...
Online advertising is growing, and much of that growth is happening in display advertising. While search ads still make up 46 percent of the total over display’s 38 percent, display grew twice as fast as search in 2010. Many online businesses rely on advertising as a supplemental revenue stream in support of their business...
tapTank Next, Yael Greenberg from Tel Aviv, Israel, pitched tapTank, a concept stage business where Yael wants to help consumers barter, collaborate, and compete on specific tasks. She gave a series of use cases from group travel to competing in marathons, and the one that resonated with me was barter. Each of her use...
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. Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to the U.S. government,...
Artspace is an internet start-up that sells mid-range artwork by some of the world’s most prominent contemporary artists. CEO and co-founder Catherine Levene — of New York Times Digital and DailyCandy fame — launched the company with business partner Chris Vroom back in March. Watch below as she explains how Artspace will revolutionize art...
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Google Calendar and some other sites got a very attractive refresh today. It looks like Google is starting to streamline its design to match Google+. See for yourself. It’s pretty: Image: Screenshot Here’s what the new Google Maps looks like: Image: Screenshot Update: The new look is coming to Gmail as well. Here’s an...