And the award for the most useless startup at TechCrunch Disrupt goes to Talk O’Clock – the app that gives you a wake up call from a complete stranger anywhere in the world. Just like Chatroulette connects you with a random stranger through video, setting your wake up call with Talk O’Clock means a...
Daily Archives: September 15, 2011
It Was Hard For Facebook’s First Female Engineer "To Break Into The Boys’ Club"
Boys will be boys. Image: Wikimedia Commons See Also: Dustin Moskovitz: Why I Left Facebook To Start Asana Facebook Delays IPO: Zuck Wants To Keep Employees Hungry Facebook’s VP Of Engineering Talks Google+ And All His Company’s Eerily Similar Product Launches Who knew computer engineers could be so mean? Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook’s first female...
FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS FOR YAHOO: Marc Andreessen Wants To Buy It (YHOO)
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz See Also: Yes, Yahoo And AOL Should Immediately Merge JASON CALACANIS: The 10 Acquisitions Yahoo’s New CEO Should Make On Day One NEW DAN LOEB LETTER: Huge Yahoo Shareholder Asks Jerry Yang To Help Him Fire Yahoo’s Chairman Yesterday, Kara Swisher reported that a bunch of private equity firms...
Did Case-Mate Just Leak The iPhone 5?
And like that it’s gone. Before I could hit the publish button on this post, Case-Mate pulled the page in question and replaced it with a landing page. But for a second there, Case-Mate had what seemed to be a whole bunch of images of iPhone 5 cases loaded with a slightly different phone...
With 600% stock increases, SNAP Interactive is scoring big with Facebook Apps
In 2005, Cliff Lerner was working on Wall St. as an equities analyst at Lehman Brothers while his brother Darrell was running a sports related Internet company. Feeling crunched for time but still wanting to go out on hot dates in New York City, Cliff saw an opportunity to build a business where busy professionals like...
TweetDeck kills off Deck.ly’s long-form integration with an all-platforms update
I can’t say that it’s terribly surprising, given Twitter’s acquisition of TweetDeck a few months ago, but today we’ve gotten the news that TweetDeck has updated its applications across all platforms and the death of Deck.ly will come as a result. For those unfamiliar, Deck.ly is a platform that allowed you to automatically tweet...
Dyson Turns Up The Heat, Releases The Dyson Hot AM04 Air Multiplier
No common household product is save from a Dyson disruption. This time around the company is taking on the household space heater and just announced an air multiplier fitted with a ceramic heating element. The result is a heater that not only looks freakin’ awesome but also one that draws in surrounding air and...
Unigo.com Raises $1.6 Million From McGraw-Hill Education
Exclusive - Unigo.com, a website that provides information for finding, getting in and paying for college, has raised its first round of institutional funding. The startup has raised $1.6 million in financing, led by The McGraw-Hill Companies. Unigo says it will use the capital to expand to include graduate schools and accredited universities outside...
Facebook HAS NOT Changed Its IPO Plans — NYT
Image: Facebook See Also: CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Revenue Is Growing Fast, But Google’s Grew Faster CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook’s Unbelievable Domination Of Our Time On The Web Facebook Delays IPO: Zuck Wants To Keep Employees Hungry Facebook’s IPO plans have not changed, Evelyn Rusli and Michael De La Merced of the...
Netflix Shares Tanking After It Cuts Subscriber Forecast (NFLX)
Netflix shares are tanking by 16% in pre-market trading after it lowered its U.S. subscriber growth forecast for the quarter. The weaker than expected subscriptions are due to its decision to split the DVD and streaming businesses and charge customers for each service. Netflix says its financial guidance is the same, and its international...