Image: fudyma Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: Facebook rolled out huge, far-reaching changes to privacy and sharing. Here’s what you need to know → The changes include a roll-back of Facebook Places, its check-in feature, which is a nice win for Foursquare. The game isn’t over, however, because Facebook has big plans...
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams, and longtime sidekick Jason Goldman, recently shifted their focus away from the micro-sharing service provider to reboot Obvious, the company that originally incubated Twitter. Yesterday, Stone announced Obvious’ first project: incubating an app development company called Lift, created by Tony Stubblebine and Jon Crosby. Obvious says it will...
I was impressed by Facebook’s updated privacy announcements today. Finally, after years of menus – and menus filled with menus – and menus filled with menus filled with drop-downs — we’re getting simple, direct privacy options right on the page. I’m sure some people will still bitch and moan because well, it’s Facebook. But...
Amazon has reportedly added TPK Holding as its third supplier of 7-inch touch panels for one of its two tablet devices expected to launch in October, suggesting the company is preemptively protecting its supply chain should its devices see excessive demand or have restrictions placed on panel production output. Digitimes reports that Amazon’s supply...
Image: Wikimedia Commons Dropbox, the most valuable Y Combinator startup, is easily worth $5 billion because it has magic economics. There’s only one problem: its use case might just vanish. Dropbox is a service that lets you backup and sync files in the cloud. But as über-VC Fred Wilson notes in a post, “files”...
Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Tom Anderson, the founder former President of MySpace. Follow him on Google, Twitter, and Facebook. There’s been more than a few “Google+ is doomed” articles as of late. After the initial rush of delighted surprise that G+ didn’t suck, the second wave of journalists have arrived....
As Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator unveils its biggest-ever batch of 63 startups, it’s worth looking at the most successful of the hundreds of Y Combinator startups so far, Dropbox. The Y Combinator startup that’s most often in the news is Airbnb, but Airbnb’s billion-dollar valuation is chump change compared to the reported $5...
Changing the World, One Action at a Time Obvious Corp. has long said it was a new kind of organization seeking to foster startups that would help make the world a better place. Just like Twitter is a deep mix of the personal and the public, Lift (at least when it was Mibbles) was...
Semantic recipe search engine Yummly is tuning its search features to include a new way to search specifically for recipes that are “spicy” just as it’s hitting a major milestone. After coming out of beta in June 2010, the company says it’s now doing half the unique visitors of Epicurious.com, the popular search engine...
TheInterviewr is a new mashup that makes it super, super simple to record telephone interviews online using your existing telephone. It is a dream come true and for now at least – it’s free. The system uses APIs from Twilio and Box.net to let users schedule interviews with contacts, enter notes for the interviews...