Daily Archives: August 30, 2011

10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (GOOG, MMI, AMZN, AAPL, MSFT, YHOO)

August 30, 2011
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (GOOG, MMI, AMZN, AAPL, MSFT, YHOO)

Image: Flickr/Esther Dyson Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: The culture clash is just too big: the Google-Motorola merger just won’t take. Worrying trend: spooked by the stock market, VCs are reneging on term sheets, leaving entrepreneurs high and dry. Amazon is a strong contender to buy Hulu. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos...

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Domino’s brings piping hot pizzas to the iPad in the UK

August 30, 2011
Domino’s brings piping hot pizzas to the iPad in the UK

Domino’s Pizza on Tuesday launched its official iPad app on the UK App Store, allowing you to order your pizza, pay for it and then sit back and track it as it makes its way from the store to your house, all using the slick interface of a native app. It joins the already existing...

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Sequoia Leads $9.5 Million Round In Interactive Video Advertising Startup Innovid

August 30, 2011
Sequoia Leads $9.5 Million Round In Interactive Video Advertising Startup Innovid

Innovid, a video advertising startup, has raised $9.5 million round led by Sequoia Capital with Genesis Partners and T-Ventures (Deutsche Telecom) participating in the round. As part of the funding round, Sequoia partner Gili Raanan will join Innovid’s Board of Directors. This investment brings Innovid’s total funding to $17 million. Innovid’ develops an interactive...

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OpenDNS, Google and Verisign team to speed up the web

August 30, 2011
OpenDNS, Google and Verisign team to speed up the web

A few million Americans may find their YouTube requests get delivered faster on Tuesday as Google,  OpenDNS, VeriSign  and several content delivery networks announce the Global Internet Speed Up effort. As the web scales and bandwidth demands rise, finding ways to deliver faster content is pushed out to the edge of networks, because the...

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UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s to trial an iPad shopping trolley

August 30, 2011

Hot on the heels of the reports that BA and United Airlines were dishing out iPads to their respective flight crews, UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has started kitting its trolleys out with docking stations for the Apple device. As the Telegraph reports, Sainsbury’s is pimping up its rides and is rolling out a brand...

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Seesmic Flips The Switch On Its Latest Pivot (CRM)

August 30, 2011
Seesmic Flips The Switch On Its Latest Pivot (CRM)

Seesmic, the startup that makes a suite of popular social media tools, is ready to launch its next product, Seesmic CRM, which will let companies interact with customers in social media.  Seesmic has a storied history, starting out as a video service and pivoting many, many times to this day. The latest pivot comes...

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Sina Buys Stake In Huge Video Site Tudou (SINA, TODU)

August 30, 2011
Sina Buys Stake In Huge Video Site Tudou (SINA, TODU)

Image: DigiCha Sina, the huge Chinese portal, bought a stake in Tudou, the huge video site that went public recently, Bloomberg reports.  This is interesting and probably makes sense. As Bloomberg notes, Sina is currently partnering and investing in areas outside its core focus, like e-commerce.  What’s most interesting is that Sina owns Weibo,...

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@WalmartLabs: How a Scrappy Search 2.0 Startup Became The Future of Walmart

August 30, 2011
@WalmartLabs: How a Scrappy Search 2.0 Startup Became The Future of Walmart

In April, social media startup Kosmix was acquired for $300 million by retailing giant Walmart. Kosmix had built a Semantic Web platform called the Social Genome, which organized social media data. The platform powered 3 products: TweetBeat, a real-time social media filter for live events; Kosmix.com, a topic-based search engine; and RightHealth, a health...

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Wikileaks cables detail Apple’s uphill battle against counterfeiting in China

August 30, 2011

Apple organised a team headed by a former FBI special agent in 2008 to address the escalating problem of the manufacture and selling of knockoffs of its products in China, according to an electronic memo from the Beijing Embassy leaked by Wikileaks, as reported by CNN. John Theriault, who now heads Apple’s global security...

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