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Reports of the death of Groupon’s IPO plans have apparently been greatly exaggerated. The online daily deals pioneer filed an updated version of its S-1 document with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, as part of its preparation for a planned initial public offering of its stock. Since the company first filed its...
It looked like an ordinary Friday afternoon for Chris Huhne, Britain’s secretary of state for energy and a member of the British coalition government. The day was ending. Things were wrapping up for the weekend. And then it all went haywire. A mysterious message appeared on his Twitter stream: “From someone else fine,” it...
News broke last night that speech-to-text software creators Nuance has acquired mobile text software designer Swype for $102.5 million. This is a big merger in the information input vertical of mobile ecosystem as it combines two of the hottest and most used features on smartphones today. This could be the first steps to bringing...
Stealthy e-commerce platform Everlane has raised $1.1 million from a number of high-profile investors including Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Betaworks and angel investors including Brian Sugar, Keith Rabois, Dave Morin, Ben Ling, Nils Johnson, and Karl Jacob. Everlane is still a month away from its public launch but we’ve received a few...
The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader in exile, has joined Google Plus, and he’s hosting a live Hangout tomorrow with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The conversation is part of the inaugural Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture in Cape Town, South Africa. It’s an On Air Hangout, so there’s no limit to the number of viewers. The...
Fastly, a startup created this year is turning the economics of delivering content on its head with a content delivery network composed of solid state drives. By placing two servers packed with SSDs in each company’s data center, Artur Bergman, Fastly’s CEO, has managed to speed up the load times of his former employer...
Fastly, a startup created this year is turning the economics of delivering content on its head with a content delivery network comprised of solid state drives. By placing two servers packed with SSDs Artur Bergman, Fastly’s CEO, has managed to speed up the load times of his former employer Wikia, as well as a...
Hipchat, the group chat service we use internally, has just added DIY emoticons – with a catch. If you’re not familiar with them, Hipchat’s emoticons are quite fun. They have most of the major memes as well as famous faces (try (arrington)). Now, however, you can add your own famous faces. Our favorites are...