Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, and Paul Sciarra cofounded Pinterest. See Also: If We Hear About Any More Startups Like These, We’ll Scream The End Is Nigh: Teen Heartthrob Justin Bieber Is A Startup Investor The First TechStars NYC Startup To Shutter A month ago, we wrote that Pinterest, a startup that lets everyone keep...
It looks like Intel may be ready to play its hand in the InterDigital patent game, as Google appears to be losing interest. According to Bloomberg. You’ll likely remember back in August when we reported that Apple, Nokia and Samsung were all showing interest in the patents, but we also said that you couldn’t...
US Senate lawmakers will introduce a bill next Thursday that would fine big companies that lose consumer data in a security breach due to poor security measures. The Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act, sponsored by Democrat Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, would enable the Justice Department to fine businesses with more than 10,000...
Microblogging and curation platform Tumblr reached its 10 billionth post today, marking another milestone for the hip and ever-growing service. The service currently hosts over 28 million blogs, which are used to publish tens of millions of posts each day. The site’s total posts hit 10 billion earlier today, according to the company’s “about”...
Anti-Piracy Mechanisms Ineffective The report says that anti-piracy mechanisms were used by 52% of developers. Yet, 62% of the developers also said that they have lost sales due to copy protection systems as consumers “are not big fans of licensing systems or copy protection.” In addition, 82% of developers said that copy protections have...
See Also: FROM FIT TO FAT: Athletes Who Let Themselves Go These Are The Deadliest Drivers In Europe Homes For The Price Of College Tuition Working at Groupon, it turns out, is kind of awful. As in sue-your-employer bad. The reviews on Glassdoor.com would tend to agree. Reading through them—especially all the ones from...
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In the wake of U.S. President Obama’s speech on jobs last night, we present this mapping of Recovery Act spending. Development Seed, the same folks who mapped the famine in the Horn of Africa, have turned their attention on America. Development Seed has mapped Recovery Act spending on a county-by-county basis and compared it...
Ladies and gentlemen, it is Friday, and you know what that means. Yes, it is time for the ever-running TNW Microsoft weekly roundup of all things Redmond. This has been a week of throat clearing for Microsoft, as the company hunkers down for the coming BUILD event. BUILD is set to dominate the entire scene...
Clear Channel, the largest radio station owner in the United States, has teamed up with music intelligence platform The Echo Nest to build an Internet radio service similar to Pandora and Last.fm. Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio service uses The Echo Nest’s massive dataset of 30 million songs and 5 billion related data points to let...