When Microsoft announced and launched the ‘Building Windows 8‘ blog, we sat up and took notice, as it was to be the official conduit that the company would use to unveil elements of its next operating system. Today, on the other hand, Microsoft is using the publication to respond to rather visceral criticism that its recently...
Daily Archives: September 2, 2011
So you want to get into Y Combinator? Here’s how
Y Combinator, the popular startup incubator, unleashed its newest batch of fledgling technology companies into the world at its Summer 2011 Demo Day event last month. At six years old, Y Combinator is a veteran of sorts in the fast-paced world of Silicon Valley innovation. But the quality of its latest startup class —...
Jeff Bezos’ Spaceship Suffers A Catastrophic Failure (AMZN)
Image: MSNBC See Also: Apple’s Retail Secrets REVEALED After Employee Gives Away The Store’s Hard Drive Woot Customers Who Bought An HP TouchPad Just Got An Email From Lando Calrissian Check Out These Nerdy References On Apple Employee License Plates An unmanned spaceship funded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos suffered a huge failure during a...
UPDATE: Apple Searched Man’s House For Missing iPhone While SF Police Waited Outside (AAPL)
Image: MD111 via Flickr See Also: WATCH: Adweek Rightfully Places Steve Jobs In Apple’s “Crazy Ones” Commercial Apple’s Retail Secrets REVEALED After Employee Gives Away The Store’s Hard Drive Check Out These Nerdy References On Apple Employee License Plates An update to this story appears at the bottom. The rabbit hole runs deeper and...
Google Kills Aardvark, Which It Bought For $50 Million Last Year (GOOG)
Image: AP See Also: Google Is Buying “Crap” Patents In Motorola Deal Motorola Deal Could Give Google A Huge Tax Break Google’s Eric Schmidt: We Want Motorola For More Than Just Patents Google is shutting down Aardvark, the QA service it bought last year for about $50 million. The founders just posted a goodbye...
37signals: 321 of the Fortune 500 use Basecamp
For a company that has always talked about selling software to a neglected market, 37signals appears to be doing well for itself with popular names as well. In a new blog post, the company touts the statistic that 321 of the Fortune 500 use Basecamp, while 127 of them use Highrise. Breaking that down...
Google closes Aardvark social search as part of Labs shutdown
Question and answers service Aardvark is being shut down as part of GoogleLabs at the end of September, according to an announcement made today on the Aardvark blog.. The service which allowed users to ask and answer questions from people in their extended social network through their Google Chat window was a fast hit,...
AOL Left Arianna Huffington In The Dark About Arrington’s Controversial VC Fund
Image: Arianna Huffington’s Twitter stream See Also: When A Private Equity Firm Buys AOL And Chops It Up, Will They Sell Huffington Post And TechCrunch Separately? WAIT! Now AOL Says Mike Arrington Is Still An Employee – In The Business Development Division Arrington On Whether He Works For TechCrunch Or AOL: “I Have No...
Dish Network to launch Blockbuster streaming movie service competing with Netflix next month
Satellite TV giant Dish Network is planning on launching a streaming movie service to compete with Netflix, reports Blooomberg. The service will launch next month, according to a person with direct knowledge of Dish’s plans. The announcement of the service was apparently timed to take advantage of the increase in Netflix’s prices for its...
Strategy Roundtable: Fall Call To Action
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