Code 42 Software, a Minnesota-based online backup company for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, has raised $52.5 million in funding led by Accel Partners with participation from Split Rock Partners. This is the first major investment from Accel’s recently announced Big Data Fund, which is dedicated to funding infrastructure and application companies in “Big...
Hackers from Anonymous are planning to attack Sony for once supporting SOPA next Monday, according to a report from SC Magazine, which claims that both Sony.com and the Sony Music store are the targets. ‘Hacktivists’ from the collective are reportedly plotting to load Sony’s homepage with BitTorrent files, which are exactly the type of...
Struggling US mobile technology provider Clearwire has taken its partnership with China Mobile to the next level after announcing that the duo would begin joint testing of TD-LTE technology, according to Wireless Week. The link-up comes with much need benefits for the duo, both of which are part of the Global TD-LTE Initiative, and...
Where were you on the Internet in 2010? What about in 2011? The folks over at Royal Pingdom have compiled a nice set of data for the Internet, by the Internet. That is, an entire list of data about email, websites, web servers, domain names by their .dot web addresses, Internet users by country,...
Singapore-based mobile social network mig33 has announced that it has joined the microblogging game with the introduction of its new mig33 miniblog feature, with which it is targeting 500 million new users in emerging markets. The company is one of the more significant consumer mobile firms that many are unlikely to have heard of and...
The Internet Society is organizing a pow wow of big ISPs, web companies and networking equipment providers on June 6 to ceremonially bury the world’s current Internet protocol, IPv4, and permanently implement its successor, IPv6. Global broadband providers ATT, Comcast, Free Telecom (which has been very much in the news of late), KDDI, Internode,...
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Pushing the 3D Boundaries in WebKit with CSS 3D and Three.js The recent redesign of Steven Wittens’ Acko.net looks great in Firefox, but the magic only happens if you are viewing it via a WebKit browser, like Chrome or Safari. What started out as an accidental discovery became an experiment in, well, experimentation. The...
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Founders and entrepreneurs are likely familiar with some of the more well-established startup incubators and accelerators out there, like Y Combinator, TechStars, 500 Startups, Founder Institute, DreamIt — to name a few — all of which provide terrific opportunities and resources for their founding teams. Of course, many of these come with a price,...