Quixey, the Palo Alto-based startup that’s building a functional search engine for apps, today announced that it has closed a $3.8 million series A funding round. The investment was led by U.S. Venture Partners and WI Harper Group, with participation from Webb Investment Network alongside follow-on investment by Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors. The series...
With the explosion of apps, the app discovery game has also turned into a competitive market, with a number of services looking to be the place where users find quality apps. And these start-ups are pulling in big funding to make sure they’re the go-to resource in this expanding market. Quixey, an app search...
Qualcomm, wireless chip company has been one of the most interesting companies to cover. Some of us who covered wireless in the early days remember the Qualcomm van, the big bulky CDMA phones, Globestar and a whole lot of cool phones. They have assembled all those memories in a museum at their corporate headquarters...
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm “Leck bei Wikileaks“. The headline in German-language news weekly, Der Freitag, described the irony with Teutonic efficiency: “Leak at Wikileaks“....
Chicago is working nights and weekends to become a respected technology hub, and not simply the ‘Groupon City.’ Momentum in Chicago, the nation’s third largest metropolis, is picking up, and fresh money is blossoming dozens of companies around the area. In fact, as time goes on, if the potential in some of Chicago’s smaller firms...
Shortly after Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO Thursday, stories began pouring in across the web about what this means for the future of Apple. The instinct of some has been to sentimentally recall their personal interactions with him, some have taken to eulogizing as if he was dead, not just moving positions. Yet...
I’m really lucky. I get to wake up in the morning, switch on my computer, before I’ve made my first pot of coffee, and proceed to spend the rest of the day surfing the ‘net for a living. I end up spending far longer than 8 hours in front of this screen, checking Twitter,...
Get ready. This is one epic episode of OMG/JK. It’s been a couple of weeks since our last show — and those weeks have been packed with news. Google announced that it’s in the process of acquiring Motorola, which will have major implications for the future of Android. Facebook made some changes to its Places...
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The open source movement has the potential to empower developing countries to use IT as an important national resource — to communicate to its citizenry, expand its educational platform and address national disasters. Open source software is not only free from license restriction; it is also free to be used as a basis for...