What would New Year’s be without the traditional Times Square party? People in New York City have been watching the ball drop at midnight for more than a hundred years, and millions from all over the U.S. have been glued to their TV screens for decades to catch a glimpse of the action. This...
From Demand Media to LinkedIn to Pandora to Groupon, and then Zynga and Jive, 2011 was the year private companies finally started breaking into the public markets. It’s all set up for next year when Facebook finally IPOs. That should be one of the biggest, most interesting events of the year. But before we...
Tech incubator Adverplex has a new identity — Cogo Labs — and is starting to talk it up. The 30-person shop, based in VC-friendly Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass., has backed such plays as CourseAdvisor, Autotegrity and AdHarmonics – all of which focus on web-based analytics. The Washington Post bought CourseAdvisor, which uses analytics to help colleges...
According to a survey conducted by Nielsen in the United States, YouTube continues to be the reigning king of online video, with over 130 million unique US visits in November alone. YouTube’s closest competitor in unique visits is VEVO, the prominent online music video site, which came in at just under 43 million. Most impressively,...
Image: Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Editor’s note: Fab Founder Jason Goldberg put together this slide deck about his company’s crazy 2011. Fab.com is a mini magazine that curates fashion products and designs for its members. It also sets up flash sales and pop-up stores for designers. On the site, you can find design...
I’m sitting in a café on the Champs d’Elysees amid the electric atmosphere of streetlights, neon signs, cars, trucks, shoppers, gawkers, storekeepers, and restaurateurs — an abundance of energy. Energy has driven the development of modern civilization and conveniences. And renewable energy supplies are growing fast. But like any disruptive technology, the growing flocks...
Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider See Also: And Now For Your Weekly Verizon 4G Outage Verizon Says It Will Slap You With A $2 Fee For Paying Your Bill Online Or Over The Phone Now Verizon Customers Are Complaining That They Can’t Activate Their New Phones After a flood of backlash from customers and...
According to CNBC, Verizon has changed its mind on charging customers $2 to make a payment online or on the phone. The charge has drawn criticism and backlash from both customers and the FCC, who were reportedly looking into the situation. Verizon Reverses Decision to Charge $2 Fee For Payments Over Phone/Web; Verizon Reversed...
It looks like Go Daddy isn’t the only company drawing ire from the Internet over support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Sony also supports the act, and Anonymous isn’t too pleased about it. The hacker group posted a messaging threatening an attack against Sony as well as Sony recording artists that include...
While Symbian seems to be Nokia’s unloved child and is fading in terms of worldwide shipments, it isn’t ready to be completely written off yet. The platform is still the leader in mobile web browsing according to StatCounter, which tracks web usage. StatCounter’s figures, which Royal Pingdom examined, show that Symbian took a 33.55...