Seagate announced the immediate release of the 4TB GoFlex Desk external hard drive on Wednesday, claiming the title of being the first company to market with such a high capacity drive. The GoFlex Desk will be available for order from the company’s website at the retail price of $250 starting today and will be...
Daily Archives: September 6, 2011
HP shopped around PC business to LG and Samsung in 2010
HP went to LG and Samsung in 2010, offering to sell them its PC division, but both companies turned down the offer, according to CNet’s sources. This was about a year before the company officially announced its plans to spin off its PC division and focus on enterprise solutions. Soon after HP’s announcement, rumours...
The summer of our discontent: How web TV has changed
The unofficial end of summer has passed with the Labor Day weekend, and with it goes a three-month stretch of bad news for online video viewers: Netflix announced and implemented a new pricing plan that increases the cost of DVD and streaming by as much as 60 percent Starz walked away from contract negotiations...
Former Xmarks CEO And Serial Entrepreneur James Joaquin Joins Catamount Ventures As Partner
Serial entrepreneur and former Xmarks CEO James Joaquin is announcing today that he has joined Catamount Ventures as a Partner. Prior to Catamount, Joaquin was the CEO bookmarking startup Xmarks, which was acquired last year by LastPass. In the 80’s, he co-founded Clearview Software, a company acquired by Apple. After six years at Apple...
Chill Raises $1.5M From Kleiner Perkins And Others To Make Online Video Social
Chill.com, the infamous Turntable for video, is announcing today that it has raised a $1.5 million angel round from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Atlas Venture and investor Paul Kedrosky. The site, entry to which was then shut down at some point due to popular demand, is also now open to all users. Chill co-founder Brian...
New iPhone App Shows Kids the World, With Flat Stanley
I’m thousands of feet in the air, speeding across the United States, flying from Portland, Oregon to Austin, Texas. When I land, I’m going to send a picture of myself to my nieces back home – but it won’t just be a picture of one of their favorite uncles in a place they’ve never...
As Yahoo Continues to Struggle, CEO Carol Bartz Is Fired
Carol Bartz, who replaced Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as the company’s CEO in January 2009, has been let go by the company, according to a report by AllThingsD. Bartz said she was “fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board” in an email sent to employees today. Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse...
Kinetik Brings Social Narrative to App Store Purchases
A big problem for the nearly half a million apps available in the Apple App store is that they each lack an easily shareable social narrative that would empower users to buy. San Francisco-based Kinetik, is trying to solve that problem and today launched an app-sharing application for the iPhone that looks at what...
Yahoo VP Of Product Bobby Figueroa Follows Bartz Out The Door (YHOO)
See Also: DirectTV Bounced From Hulu Bidding INSIDER: Yahoo Has “Work To Do” On Ad-Targeting, Might Acquire Help New Yahoo EIC Pushes Out Front Page Editor Yahoo VP of product development Bobby Figueroa is leaving the company. A source describes him as the guy who ran Yahoo’s ad platforms. In what may be a...
Eric Schmidt: Google More Interested in ‘The RAZR Guys’ Than Patents
But from that point in the discussion with Benioff, Schmidt hopped, skipped, and jumped onto the patent issue, Motorola notwithstanding. The chairman indirectly implied that dropping out of the bid for Nortel’s patent portfolio necessitated the takeover bid for Motorola. Although Google was criticized for bidding as much as $1 billion for the portfolio...