What do actor Ashton Kutcher and singers Chamillionaire and Trey Songz have in common? They are all interested in technology startups are at Disrupt to have a look at what Silicon Valley has to offer in terms of new technologies to connect them with their fans and also potential investment opportunities. I interviewed singer...
Daily Archives: September 13, 2011
Meet the 15-year-old caught up in startup fever
Possibly the youngest entrepreneur at Disrupt Gal Harth is the CEO and co-founder of Doweet. It is an app that connects people around events. He has come all the way to Silicon Valley from Israel and wants to change the world. Which entrepreneur does he want to be like most? Watch the video to find...
Microsoft, Intel chart separate paths in the post-PC era
Microsoft and Intel both unveiled initiatives Tuesday that while unrelated, show how the Wintel partners are trying to separately navigate a new “post-PC” world. Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 to developers, showing off a new operating system that will work on both tablets and computers and will play nice with ARM processors. Meanwhile, at a...
You Are Now the Weakest Link!
It has always been the case that when it comes to the security perimeter, it starts and ends with you, the end user. But a new report from RSA summarizing a security summit meeting held earlier this summer shows exactly how things are changing. The attack vector has shifted squarely to social engineering. “Anyone...
Zetta raises $9M more for enterprise cloud storage
Cloud-storage provider Zetta has closed a $9 million Series C round from existing investors Foundation Capital and Sigma Partners. The company has now raised $31.5 million overall, an indication of just how much promise there is in the cloud storage space even, even if it’s still just relegated to backup. Cloud storage is so...
Monster Makes Job Seeking Easier, For Monster
Monster.com launched an iPhone version of its BeKnown app on Tuesday but the app offered more frustration than help for job seekers or professional recruiters and showed how out-classsed Monster is in the networking sector. The app, which builds off of a Facebook app Monster launched in June, looks more like a marketing department’s...
Google Docs Continues Kicking the Butts of Paid Apps Everywhere
Google Docs just launched three more new features, marking their second day in a row of little but useful feature announcements. The new format painter tool lets you quickly copy style from one bit of text to another. Google has implemented its Fusion Tables as a document type, which enable dynamic and visual uses...
Twitter offers analytics to try and prove its value
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo As Twitter has become an increasingly important part of the media strategy for content producers such as newspapers, TV networks and other media players, measuring the impact of a tweet has become even more important — so that those companies can show that spending time on Twitter has actual business...
The next Pandora will be a mashup
Hardly a week goes by in which we don’t get a pitch for a site that aggregates and filters music videos to serve up streams of personalized entertainment. The latest entrant is VHX.tv’s Music Video Genome, which launched last weekend. Musicvideogenome.com was cobbled together within 24 hours as a project for the Music Hack...
Microsoft Finally Confirmed The Windows 8 App Store — Here’s What It Looks Like (MSFT)
Image: Screenshot See Also: TODAY: Will Windows 8 Blow Everyone Away Like They Say It Will? We Just Got To See Microsoft’s Big Windows 8 Tablet Gamble — Now You Can Too Windows 8 Looks Like A Winner — But It’s STILL A Year Away Today we finally got confirmation that Microsoft will have...