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Samsung and Google got some considerable mileage out of their Nexus teaser video, and Motorola apparently wants to join in on the fun. Their own mysterious video went live earlier today, and hints pretty strongly at some impressive hardware due to be unveiled soon. As with most teaser videos, Motorola’s latest is heavy on...
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog, BothSidesoftheTable. A month ago I applauded Reed Hasting’s bold decision to split his business into two components. Today he’s announcing that they’re backing out of this decision. Netflix as a service has...
Netflix backtracked on its plans to separate its DVD-by-mail and streaming services and re-brand the DVD business Qwikster. So far Wall Street analysts have been largely supportive of the move, although Netflix stock is down modestly in mid-afternoon trading after opening higher this morning. Morgan Stanley analyst Scott DeVitt was mostly positive on the...
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Twitter’s international credentials got a boost back in May with the appointment of its first European employee, Tony Wang, now General Manager of Twitter UK. Elsewhere, there’s been a growing focus on the UK, with a dedicated UK Twitter blog launched in mid-September, and promoted trends now running for UK companies. Follow the company’s...
Facebook has acquired friend.ly, a Mountain View, California-based startup that makes a Facebook app for asking and answering questions with other people on the social network. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Mostly, the deal seems to be an acqui-hire: The friend.ly app will continue to work as it always has,...
“Our purpose is to increase the learning opportunities that a particular human being has by making every word on every page a learning trigger on the highest, contextual level,” says Carlos Bhola, the Founder and CEO of Kikin, a new touch-based browser experience, who has plenty of previous experience, having worked at Vonage, EachNet/eBay and...
YouTube and personal technology company Lenovo have teamed up to launch a worldwide initiative for 14 to 18 year-old high school students. Joined by space agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the initiative, YouTube Space Lab, invites students to design a science experiment that can be performed...
Watch out, ultrabook makers. The Acer Aspire S3 is here and it’s set to light up the ultrabook scene. This little monster packs a second generation Core CPU, a 13.3-inch HD screen, both a SSD and HDD, and a 0.51-inch thick chassis made out of aluminum and magnesium that weighs just 2.98 pounds. But...