Path founder Dave Morin has shed light on the service’s growing international appeal after revealing that its userbase is increasing at a more rapid rate in Asia than in Western markets. Morin spoke about Path, its growth and the social networking space in general at the March PandoMonthly event in San Francisco. His disclosure that...
Daily Archives: March 22, 2012
Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Facebook & More From Tracking Your Data
In the age of endless sharing, super cookies, social search results, and that ever-present social graph, it’s comforting to know that there are some who are still prioritizing privacy. (And a few of them are former Googlers no less!) In October 2010, Google engineer Brian Kennish created Facebook Disconnect, a Chrome extension that disables...
Change at the top of world’s largest operator as China Mobile’s chairman retires
China Mobile has announced that its chairman, Wang Jianzhou, has stepped down from his position at the world’s largest opeator “by reason of age”, his replacement will be Xi Guohua, the operator’s vice chairman. Xi, who is a former vice minister at China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, will retain his influential position as...
Scoople Turns Reading The News Into A Game
If you’re a news junkie who wants to make the experience a little more active, Scoople may be the iPhone app for you. The app was created by a startup called Dygest. When you’re using it, you get a stream of news stories, and each story has an associated poll. For example, you can...
Check Out Which Celebrities Are On Pinterest
AP, Getty images, PCA screengrab See Also #Kony2012: Jason Russell’s Family Just Issued Statement On Filmmaker’s ‘Psychotic’ Breakdown Justin Bieber By The Numbers: 600 Girls Scream His Name As He Wears $900 Sneakers THE CAST OF ‘AMERICAN PIE’: Where Are They Now? If you haven’t heard of Pinterest, you’re missing out. The site, which...
And Now There’s An Ad Network For HR Bloggers
To some TechCrunch readers, a blog post about human resources may sound like a bit of a snooze (well, unless “talent war” is in the headline). But for others, it’s the heart of their business, and of course there’s a big industry built around HR services and products. That’s why there’s a community of...
Get Serious: Of COURSE Google’s Going To Take On The iPhone (GOOG)
asgw via Flickr See Also Google’s Don Dodge: The Smartphone War Isn’t Really A War MICROSOFT: First We’re Going To Destroy Apple’s iPhone In China, Then We’re Going To Clobber Google’s Android You Simply Must See This Beautiful Concept Design Of The Next iPhone The conventional wisdom among Silicon Valley bigwigs is that Google...
Google Employees Are Now Happier Than Facebook Employees (GOOG, FB)
For the first time in three years, Google employees are happier than Facebook employees. That’s quite a switch from a couple years ago, when it seemed like Google employees were defecting for Facebook in droves. The stats come Glassdoor, where employees post mostly anonymous opinions of their bosses and employers. Both companies are minting...
Finally we have an app where Retina Display support matters, iTunes Movie Trailers
Ever since the iPad 3 new iPad was announced, developers have been furiously packing new Retina Display friendly graphics into their apps to make sure that once the new devices landed into people’s hands, their new and prettier apps were ready for download. Needless to say, just about every iPad app in existence have...
Apple acknowledges ‘item cannot be downloaded’ errors due to iTunes Cloud issue, no ETA on fix
If you’ve been trying to use your Apple TV to play iTunes in the Cloud content like TV shows but have been getting the error message ‘this item cannot be downloaded on this network, you must be connected to a WiFi network’, you’re not alone. I began experiencing the error a couple of hours...