Mark Goines may not be the most familiar name in the Valley, but he was a prolific angel investor, investing in some 40 companies since 2000, including BabyCenter, Mint, PayCycle and Nolo.com. As Sarah reported in May, Goines is known for working closely with the startups he chooses to invest in, leveraging his consumer...
Asymco has released a couple of charts chronicling Apple’s rise from near bankruptcy to becoming the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation in the 14 years that Steve Jobs helmed the company. The charts compare the performance of the company’s stock against its peers in the technology industry. Going up against it are...
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Having announced official support for Android applications before it released its PlayBook tablet, RIM has started to detail the features that will be available when its compatibility layer goes live. If you were hoping for full-featured Android apps and services, think again. Speaking at DroidCon, as part of the Eastern European Mobile Monday Developer Summit in...
There are plenty of inventive ways to find news these days. From Flipboard‘s beautiful presentation of what your friends’ are sharing through to recent innovations from Google News. NewsWhip is a new site from an Irish team that takes a dash of Flipboard’s approach and adds a pinch of Tweetmeme to surface important news...
In just about one of the weirdest press releases that has come across my radar, mobile gaming rewards network Kiip and the old-school Guinness World Records (seriously) are announcing that they are teaming up today to offer mobile gamers the chance to be official Guinness World Record holders. Yeah. The partnership will most prominently...
“We’re not a social network, we’re an information network.” That’s what Twitter’s vice president of engineering, Michael Abbott, told the crowd at Mobilize 2011 this week. That isn’t new branding, Twitter has been denying it’s a social network since at least a year ago. It all dates back to November 2009, when Twitter changed...
Apple could be preparing to launch the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in ten more countries in the European Union (EU) as soon as next month, according to sources of the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita (English translation). The App Store is already available in all 27 countries that form the EU but only 12 currently have the...