Buddy Media, a company that provides Facebook Page and social media management tools to brands, has raised $54 million in Series D funding led by GGV Capital with Institutional Venture Partners, Bay Partners and Insight Venture Partners. This brings Buddy Media’s total funding to just under $90 million. GGV partner Jeff Richards has joined...
Aviation enthusiasts interested in greener flying might put an Elektra One plane on their wish lists. PC-Aero‘s electric aircraft can fly for up to three hours on one charge with a 100mph cruising speed. The charging happens inside a solar-powered hangar included in the plane’s anticipated purchase price of $145,000. The plane successfully completed...
Twitter, launching just over five years ago, has captured the hearts and minds over 200 million Internet users. The service, operating as a sort-of-centralised SMS message that allows interested parties to read should they be so inclined, has grown with the smartphone generation as communications go mobile and users become addicted to sending and...
Twitter has dabbled for years with providing visibility into the realtime stream of attention and gestures. Its Track functionality allowed users to set up a communications interface around certain keywords, most notably the @username. Born of a user gesture first called the @reply, the feature survived the removal of Track in various forms, most...
BUILD cometh! As Microsoft’s new developer event is now just one month away, it’s time to buckle down and dig into the event and to ask ourselves what might be coming, and why it matters. The event, now sold out, recently canceled its first day of ‘pre-conference’ to allow for ‘focus’ during the other...
The Y Combinator funded Contagion Health and Health Month have merged this week to form one big health data focused startup called Habit Labs. Contagion Health’s product, Imoveyou.com has shut down in the merger and instead founders Jen McCabe and Buster Benson will be focusing on their Health Month site and building out the...
Anonymous, the online hacktivist group, has released thousands of names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers believed to be from myBart.org, an independent site that uses BART’s (San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit) open data services. The hacking is part of a carefully planned effort by Anonymous to bring BART to its knees in retaliation...
If he just sold you a fund run by a stock-picker, he probably swindled you. Henry Blodget Yale’s legendary investment guru, David Swensen, shreds the mutual-fund industry this weekend in the New York Times. Swensen points out what anyone who has objectively studied the facts of investing inevitably comes to realize: The fund industry...
For most Mac users, the menu bar is a very expensive plot of screen real estate. Only the most purposive and priceless of applications deserve a spot in there and for me, it’s no different. After spending some time considering by menubar picks some weeks ago, I think I’ve finally found my ideal selection...
Not too long ago, Om Malik blogged “the social Web mimics the way we are in the real world … in this new kind of social web, the defining characteristic is us.” A great observation, but how true is it? What do the following have in common? People in an on-line multiuser game with...