Image: via HackingNetflix on Flickr Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: Netflix redoes its pricing, jacks up rate if you want DVDs and streaming. Here’s what you need to know → Dropbox is raising money at a $5-10bn valuation. EA buys PopCap Games for $1.3 billion. Google launches its Groupon-killer in New York...
This looks like a photo version of Twitter hashtags that trigger short-lived memes, such as #Iamsogangsterthat… or #thatswhatshesaid… etc. Could be fun to watch the same thing happen visually. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/qEgFYzt03ZU/
Bank of America has begun inviting a select number of customers to trial a new way of transferring money by providing a new service that will allow free money transfers to be initiated using just a phone number or an email address. The pilot is part of a new venture by Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase...
This Kickstarter project, while noble, seems to be slightly misguided. The case, designed for the iPhone 4, has a small side compartment for taking “various small goodies with you, such as vitamins and mints” or, barring those sundries, a loosie cig or (and this is only conjecture) a “joint” of “marijuana.” I can only...
More jobs than this guy There’s a debate going on right now over how many jobs tech startups create. As Fortune reporter Dan Primack notes, the US lost over 1 million jobs over the past year. And a lot of people look to high-growth companies to make up the shortfall. VC Andrew Parker wrote...
Wander for a few minutes around the trade show floors at Intersolar, one of the largest solar conferences in the U.S., being held in San Francisco at Moscone Center this week, and it’s easy to get a little bored. The rooms are full of racking systems, inverters, silicon materials, and more than anything else,...
Launched in 2008, the target audience of Army Strong Stories is the U.S. Army’s primary recruiting target: men aged 18-24. This age group spends a lot of time online, so a blog was seen as an effective way to reach that audience. The site also reaches women in the same age group, but Nagel...
It’s not exactly breaking news that mobile technologies are changing the way we work and enabling employees to be productive regardless of their location. What’s interesting is the pace at which they appear to be doing so. Seventy-one percent of SMB’s report that their employees use mobile technologies to work outside the office, according...