Opscode, a company that provides cloud infrastructure automation for the enterprise, has raised $19.5 Million in Series C funding led by Ignition Partners, with Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson participating in the round. The company also today announced that Ignition Partners’ John Connors has joined Opscode’s Board of Directors. This latest investment brings...
The launch of the new iPad has seen Apple fans and enthusiasts worldwide given a new reason to get excited about the company’s tablet. For those in China however, where the device is yet to be launched, it marks a return to familiar territory: waiting on a delayed release date. That wait may not...
Rotobooth is a photo booth controlled by an embedded rotary telephone, and there are two ways to use it. You can dial ’0′ to take a photo, which is automatically uploaded to Flickr. Or, you can simply dial your mobile number and the booth takes 5 photos and sends you the links via text...
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Amit Runchal, who blogs at Interactioned. The speculation of what Apple is going to do with all their cash has long been a favorite topic in the tech and financial press. But the thinking along those lines is often akin to the cognitive dissonance one experiences...
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Square is mostly known for its distinctive credit card reading dongle, which has become a hit with small business owners. But the company has also been pushing a cloud-based consumer mobile wallet app called Card Case that allows people to pay participating merchants without pulling out their credit card. While Square is now processing...
Last week, Bill Gates mentioned that he’s involved with an energy storage company that was basically “gravel on ski lifts” at the Eco:nomics Conference organized by the Wall Street Journal. (Thank you, Katie Fehrenbacher, for attending.) (See video, minutes 19:15 to 20:10). Ski lift storage has been one of those topics discussed in the...
Square has updated and rebranded its mobile payment iOS app, which is now called Pay with Square. As you may remember, it was previously called Card Case. While the startup hasn’t made any official announcement yet, “pay with” is a very actionable name, and we can assume that its purpose is to boost Square’s...
Silicon Valley leads the world in technology but it’s losing a debate over how that technology should be used. A new surge in patent lawsuits shows that Chicago, not Silicon Valley, is setting the rules for how patents should encourage innovation. SEE ALSO: How A Texas Dog Park Became A New Front In America’s...
I’m a fan of Apple products, there’s no doubt about it. Even when I decided to “quit” my iPhone to play the field with Android and Windows devices, I still couldn’t fully get rid of it. Some of the reasons for that have to do with my job, but there are certain things that...