In a post on his blog, Dave Winer has written a nicely put together piece about why the web isn’t dead and why apps are not the future. Winer has a solid point about how apps lack the inter-connectivity of the web. Visualize each of the apps they want you to use on your...
Daily Archives: December 13, 2011
Clearwire green-lights LTE build by raising $734 million
That was quick. One day after announcing the final details to its public offering, Clearwire has closed on the stock deal, raising $402.5 million in new funds, which immediately triggered its agreement with Sprint to kick in $331.4 million equity investment so it can maintain its near-majority stake in the WiMAX operator. What’s next?...
TwitVid Redesign Puts Personalization Before Popularity
Today Twitvid announced that it is launching a new open social video network and redesigned site focused on helping users find their favorite videos. TwitVid wants to make it easier to upload clips and share them to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and Twitter. For now, TwitVid’s frontpage interface looks more like Digg’s (before the social...
Tim Armstrong Just Opened A Meeting By Giving 150 AOL Execs $10,000 Bonuses (AOL)
Image: Illustration by Business Insider See Also: LEAKED MEMO: AOL Has Hired The General Obama Fired AOL Starts Consolidating Patches Meet The New Head Of AOL Sales, Ex-Googler Jim Norton AOL hosts a “global operating meeting” twice a year. It’s holding one right this very moment in New York to firm up the company’s...
Jive Jumps 25% On Its First Day Of Trading (JIVE)
Time to break out the $6,000 bottle of scotch. See Also: Pop! Angie’s List Jumps 24 Percent In IPO In Their Own Words: Why Enterprise Computing Is Finally Getting Exciting WATCH OUT, MICROSOFT: Google Says It’s Getting Some Huge Wins For Google Apps Jive Software is the latest stock to pop after an oversubscribed...
1 Out Of Every 8 Merchants That Take Credit Cards Uses Square
See Also: 11 Screenshots That Prove Android Apps Are Uglier Than iOS Apps The 15 Biggest Tech Flops In 2011 WATCH OUT, MICROSOFT: Google Says It’s Getting Some Huge Wins For Google Apps Today mobile payment darling Square tweeted that it hit a milestone: “Just as small businesses are growing with Square, we’re growing...
Microsoft’s Answer to Dropbox Comes to the iPhone
Personal cloud storage is all the rage these days. Dropbox continues to be one of the most buzzed-about startups and its enterprise-focused counterpart Box is making moves toward the consumer market as well. For music files, Google, Amazon and Apple all offer cloud-based storage lockers and iOS allows syncing of other types of content...
LARRY PAGE’S NIGHTMARE: How Google Could Stumble And Fall Apart (GOOG)
Image: Bob Lee via Flickr See Also: HEY BOOKWORMS: Book Your Next Trip At One Of These 10 Literary Hotels The 20 Highest Paid Coaches In College Basketball These 20 Cities Have The Worst Poverty Problems In Europe After 13 years, including more than 7 as a public company, Google is still on top...
Obviously, Wall Street Is Still Terrified That Facebook Will Bypass It In Its IPO
Image: Illustration: Ellis Hamburger Someone is terrified that Facebook will go it alone and keeps talking to The Wall Street Journal about it. The WSJ has a report — barely two weeks after it reported the exact same thing — that the social networking giant just might take food out of the mouths of...
Google’s Matt Cutts: Good Content Trumps SEO
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