Here’s one of the great things about South by Southwest: Everyone wants to launch a cool new product there. Here’s one of the worst things about South by Southwest: Everyone wants to launch a cool new product there. That’s why Dalton Caldwell, CEO of App.net, is holding a special App Showcase at Beauty Bar...
Editor’s note: Chris Shen is vice president at Chinese gaming company The9. Prior to joining The9, he served as group account director and account director for several advertising agencies in Shanghai and Taipei. If you spend any time speaking with Western mobile companies, one topic that’s likely to pop up is their “China strategy.”...
Editor’s note: Matt Moog is the founder and CEO of Viewpoints.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattMoog. Google Panda strikes February 24, 2011 was a day that will live in infamy for the team here at Viewpoints. That was the day of the Google Panda update. Up until that point we had enjoyed four years...
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The Hollywood Reporter A single hire can turn around an organization. Game-changer hires include product visionaries, a whistleblower CEO, campaign wizards, outstanding coaches and more. Many started in the middle of the recession and were able to lead their organization into the recovery. Our list includes hires from the past three years with a...
So Yelp shares popped in the company’s first full day of trading, closing up more than 60 percent over the initial price of $15 per share. This is just the latest in a string of tech IPOs — after Brightcove and LinkedIn — with big first-day gains. And now at $24.58 a share, Yelp...
AngelHack Boston, a 30-hour hackathon, drew a couple hundred developers, programmers (and entrepreneurs seeking developers and programmers) to the Cambridge Innovation Center Saturday morning. The goal of these hackathons is exposure — to other developers, to venture capitalists — and also some cash and prizes. This event is happening in tandem with AngelHack San...
Every year, Y Combinator Demo Day, where the latest batch of incubated startups make their pitch to investors, gets a little bigger. (Or a lot.) Now, for the first time since the event began in 2005, it’s moving to a new home — the Computer History Museum. At the last Demo Day, in August...
We’re not exactly sure why they did it, but we’re glad they did. A team of animators have recreated the opening titles for the classic 1987 cartoon series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, using hand-drawn scenery and customized action figures. Director Kyle Roberts says the video involved “4,000 individual pictures, 60 hand-drawn images and 3...
Foursquare Dumps Google Goes Open-Source for Maps Foursquare announced it would no longer be using the Google Maps API to power it’s maps, instead choosing to use the open source map solution, OpenStreetMap. Foursquare cited Google’s decision to start charging for access as the primary reason for the shift. How Google Search Really Works...