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A recent piece by Miles Grimshaw, curator of TEDxYale, asks the question “can you really be a non-technical co-founder?” The answer, like for most difficult questions, is unclear. But if you’re itching to get into an accelerator like YCombinator or Techstars, all you have to do is check the numbers. Grimshaw dug up the LinkedIn profiles...
In case you haven’t seen the ridiculously obnoxious commercials, you can now buy .XXX domains for your adult…um, venture. One person picked up a cherry domain name, and nobody knows who the buyer is. According to Reuters, The Vatican said they have no idea who purchased “vatican.xxx” Just in case you were worried that...
Image: Via Pretty Daises on Flickr David Pogue Amazon released its first software update for the Kindle Fire last night, and it makes a huge difference. The New York Times gadget guru, David Pogue, says, “those jerky, balky, miscalculated-momentum issues” are fixed and that Amazon might as well call this its Polish Update —...
Online audience measurement and Web analytics companies Nielsen and comScore have settled their patent disputes, according to a joint statement released this morning. Nielsen filed suit against its rival in March 2011, accusing comScore of infringing five patents it owns that relate to measuring and displaying online content. Sure enough, comScore countersued Nielsen just...
Spreecast is a social video platform that lets people broadcast together, has raised $4 million in seed funding from Frank Biondi, former CEO of Viacom; Gordon Crawford, media and technology investor at The Capital Research Group and Edward Scott, Jr., founder of BEA Systems. The brainchild of StubHub co-founder and investor Jeff Fluhr, Spreecast...
Cameron Casey, the producer of the TechStars TV show on Bloomberg TV, already has plans for a second reality show about startups, reports TechCrunch. Casey’s TechStars show was a big hit, but his new show sounds bigger in scope in almost every way — this time around, it’ll be planned as a multi-season show...
Whilst Nokia had announced that a number of newer Symbian handsets would soon be getting a ‘Symbian’ Belle update in “early 2012″, the Finnish mobile giant has today confirmed that it will begin rolling out the update from February 2012. In a blog post on its official Conversations blog, Nokia continues to move away...
US mobile operator Verizon appears to be suffering from extensive data outage issues across the US, with many of its customers heading to the company’s community forums to complain at the lack of mobile data on their handsets. The nation’s second biggest carrier is reported to have lost both 3G and 4G network connectivity in Long...