Google’s stock is reaching its highest value over the past six months, trading as high as $619.50 share On Friday, putting search giant just shy of a $200 billion market cap. In fact, Google’s stock closed at $618.23 on Friday, giving the company a $199.23 market cap. The last time Google traded above $600...
Daily Archives: July 24, 2011
Share Playlists on Twitter with TuneBirds
TuneBirds is the latest website that makes sharing music on Twitter easy. The site is preceded by other similar services which have become immensely popular, like TinySong, one of the easiest and slickest ways to share music with your followers on Twitter. But TuneBirds is just as easy to use, and has one interesting feature that may...
OpenFlow: A Technology on the Move
OpenFlow may be one of the hotter buzzwords in bleeding-edge networking technologies these days, but getting past the emotional exuberance and down to brass tacks in this area can be difficult. Why? First,the OpenFlow protocol is a sort of infrastructure-of-infrastructure that can be applied many places. Second, OpenFlow continues to pop up in new...
Nigerian tech incubators set to mentor and train entrepreneurs
Two tech incubators in Nigeria, Co-creation Hub and the Institute for Venture Design are set to train Nigerian tech entrepreneurs in venture formation and entrepreneurship. Co-creation Hub Nigeria, a non profit social enterprise founded by Bosun Tijani and Femi Longe aims to provide a shared work space for technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies...
Then And Now: The Most Visited Domains Of 1996 And Today
Image: Duling.org See Also: The 20 Most Expensive Domain Names Of All Time The Dumbest Things People Have Ever Said On The Record How To Attract Justin Timberlake: Here’s The Pitch Dekko Used To Snag The Celebrity Investor This week, comScore pulled data from 1996 and found the most visited domains. Most were search...
The Dotcom Boom: A UK Perspective
There’s certainly something in the air at Silicon Roundabout, and I’m not talking about car exhaust fumes. David Cameron’s vision for East London’s transformation into a hot-spot for tech startups seems to be well on course, but let’s not give too much credit to the Government. The cluster of companies that call Shoreditch home...
Chatroulette + Google Hangouts= PlusRoulette
Part of Google’s new social platform Google+ includes a group video chat feature called Google Hangouts, which is great for group video chat and sharing. As my colleague MG Siegler wrote in his initial review of Google+, Google Hangouts attempts to solve the social problem of video chat by making it easy for you...
The Future according to Josh Harris. But wait, who’s Josh Harris?
This isn’t just a story about the future according to Josh Harris. This is a story about Josh Harris according to Josh Harris. When I was first introduced to the Internet entrepreneur, I scheduled our interview for 2pm on a Friday afternoon at the offices of Morris King on 5th Avenue. After I watched We...
The iPhone 5 Will Have A Voice Control Feature Called "Assistant" (AAPL)
Image: 9 To 5 Mac See Also: 11 Insider Tips You Must Follow If You Want Your App To Succeed 10 Absurdly Expensive, Four-Figure iPhone Apps Here Are All The Best iPhone And iPad Apps You Missed This Week Apple is working on a fully-integrated voice control feature called Assistant in iOS 5, according...
The Complete List of Top Instagram Apps
You know an app is on its way to going mainstream when a major brand like Starbucks has its own account. There’s simply no denying Instagram‘s popularity. In fact, it looks like the app just got a little bit more popular when Justin Bieber shared an image of LA traffic using Instagram. Bieber-traffic aside, Instagram...