Another company founded in 2004 by two former PayPal employees. Yelp is a local reviews website covering the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands; Yelp drew an audience of more than 50 million unique visitors in March 2011. Yelpers have written more than 18 million local reviews, making...
Daily Archives: March 4, 2012
Everything, Everywhere, All The Time
The web is a blessing and a curse: there is simply too much information. And it’s coming at us too quickly. Meanwhile, the tools we have to process the data flow are failing miserably, and yet, very few people are building us better ones. Instead, these days, it’s far easier to build the next...
Singapore’s SingTel moves into mobile advertising with $321 million US acquisition
Asian mobile giant SingTel — which runs an operator of the same name in Singapore — has confirmed that it is moving into the mobile advertising space with the purchase of US-headquartered firm Amobee for $321 million (SG$400 million), according to Dow Jones via the Wall Street Journal. The company has said that the move, which...
The most successful (& positive) greentech VC you haven’t heard of
Meeting a wildly successful and positive greentech investor is kind of like spotting a California Condor in the wild: you know they’re out there, but good luck on ever finding one. However, I recently caught a glimpse of one of these endangered species, and her name is Nancy Pfund, a longtime investor and founder...
This Greek artist used Path to create a video project of memorable moments
Are you one of the two million users of the social sharing app Path? If so, you are already familiar with its ambition to be “the smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love.” Yet, one of the best things about a diary is to look back at it and...
Barcelona Activa: Could governments get entrepreneurship?
Some people think governments should stay away from the entrepreneurial world. Yet, some of the most interesting programs we have seen recently, such as Start-Up Chile, are promoted by local authorities. However, this program is very recent compared to another initiative called Barcelona Activa. If you have traveled to Barcelona lately, you may have...
The Co-Founder Of One Of New York’s Hottest Startups Is Checking Out
Business Insider See Also IN PICTURES: The Life And Awesomeness Of Dennis Crowley, Founder Of $600 Million Foursquare The $600 Million Social Life Of Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley JAMES ALTUCHER: I Lost Five Million Dollars This Morning Naveen Selvadurai, who co-founded Foursquare along with Dennis Crowley, is leaving the location-based check-in app developer. Selvadurai...
Alcatel-Lucent offers a prescription for telco success
Alcatel-Lucent won the prestigious Infrastructure Technology award at Mobile World Congress 2012– literally the Oscars of the infrastructure industry. Its LightRadio technology has been making waves and helped it win deals with customers all over the world. In addition to its role on the red carpet, Alca-Lu also worked with Telefonica to light up...
I would personally like to thank Apple for explaining what the “cloud” is to my mom
When it comes to technology and products that excite me personally, I have what I call the “mom test”. Put simply, if my mom can’t figure something out it’s not worth spending a lot of time checking out or using. My mom is pretty tech savvy as most of you learned from reading “Facts...
Naveen Selvadurai, Foursquare co-founder is leaving
Last week when I heard the news that Foursquare investors were buying up stock from current employees, it piqued my interest – who is Spark Capital buying stock from? For nearly three years, it has been one of my favorite apps and I keep close tabs on the company. Digging around, I ended up...