Let’s face it, good marketing campaigns using LinkedIn are hard to find. It is the most popular business social network yet there aren’t many examples of good LinkedIn business marketing campaigns. LinkedIn does have a useful resource of success stories from individuals that use the site for networking or job seeking, but I wanted...
Less than a year after stepping down as CEO of Tremor Media, executive chairman Jason Glickman is working on a new company. The appropriately named startup Connected Sports Ventures, while still in stealth, looks poised to change the way people watch sports, by connecting their social activity on second-screen devices with what’s happening on...
HP CEO Leo Apotheker Hewlett Packard announced Thursday plans to spend some $10.25 billion in cash to acquire Autonomy, the United Kingdom-based software and services company. Given that HP’s cash reserves currently total $12.9 billion, the deal represents a major monetary outlay that will leave the company’s wallet significantly lighter than it has been...
In a Google+ status update, YouTube Product Manager Brian Glick revealed that you can now watch videos on YouTube in real-time with your friends via Google+ Hangout. It works like this: Click the “Watch with your friends: Start a Google+ Hangout” to the bottom right of your YouTube toolbar on any video, and it...
When it comes to gadget battles, the iPad is the hands-down winner in a matchup against Amazon’s Kindle reader. Hitwise Intelligence, the online research arm of credit rating agency Experian, says that the iPad is two times more popular than the Kindle based on Internet search volume. Both Kindle and iPad saw a 40%...
Image: Nasrulekram via Flickr See Also: HP Killing The TouchPad And Other WebOS Devices How Much Is The Carcass Of Palm Worth? HP Looks Like It Wants To Sell WebOS Rather Than License It The leader of HP’s WebOS business insisted in a meeting with employees today that the company is not abandoning the...
There’s a lot of great options for listening to music on your iPad, including Hunter and Aweditorium. They are now joined by one of the relatively new additions to the iTunes App store, MusicTandem. Available for a limited time at the discounted price of $0.99, MusicTandem is certainly worth that and more. The iPad app...
When Facebook launched the ability to embed Facebook comments on third-party websites, a lot of publishers saw it as a life-saver: not only would it improve traffic by exposing their content to others on the social network, but Facebook’s “real names” policy would also cut down on trolling and bad behavior. And some newspaper...
Karaoke may never be one of 500 Startups founder Dave McClure’s strong suits, but when he howls along with Justin Bieber, as he did last night after Demo Day, he brings his troops to their feet. If anything, what McClure proves is his willingness not only to invest, but to get his hands dirty...
The Godfather of the Pre, Jon Rubinstein. See Also: HP Ready To Spin Out Its PC Business Leo Apotheker Has Totally Lost Control Of HP Time For Facebook To Buy WebOS From HP For A Couple Bucks When HP bought Palm for $1.2 billion in April 2010, it inherited Palm’s hardware division, which created...