Japan’s ground breaking social network Mixi is reportedly set to be sold with its founder looking to offload his 55 percent majority stake in the company, according to tech blog Asiajin. Japanese business site Nikkei reports that Mixi founder and CEO Kenji Kasahara is ready to call time on the site that he founded in 2004,...
Daily Archives: May 14, 2012
Hillcrest Labs open sources Kylo TV browser
Hillcrest Labs, the company that’s behind the magic motion technology used in remote controls from LG and others, has open sourced its Kylo connected TV browser under the the Mozilla Public License. This makes it possible for others to use the software for their own commercial products. However, the move also indicates that the...
Smartphone customer satisfaction is hard to get right
The annual ratings of customer satisfaction with mobile phone manufacturers will be released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index Tuesday morning, and for the first time, feature phone makers will be judged right alongside smartphone makers, who are newcomers to the list. It’s not totally surprising, but Apple makes its debut on the list at the...
Service As A SKU
Editor’s note: This post was written by Alex Rampell, the CEO of TrialPay. Rampell is a regular contributor to TechCrunch – see his previous guest posts here. The biggest ecommerce opportunity today involves taking offline services and offering them for sale online (O2O commerce). The first generation of O2O commerce was driven by discounting, push-based engagements, and artificial...
To Capitalize On Demand, Facebook May Sell 50 Million Extra Shares At Increased $34-$38 Price
Everyone wants a piece of Facebook, so the company’s underwriters will likely exercise their option sell a “greenshoe” of up to 50.6 million additional shares, and Facebook will definitely increase its IPO share price range from between $28 and $35 to $34 and $38, I’ve confirmed with sources very close to the IPO. This means...
Nokia accuses Apple of “overriding” Siri to remove Lumia 900 endorsement
Nokia has accused Apple of deliberately tampering with Siri to change results, after the virtual personal assistant was found to have stopped endorsing the Nokia Lumia 900 phone. As we reported last week, when asked ‘What is the best smartphone ever’, Siri recommends the new Nokia phone, built on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system...
A Lot Of Quora’s $50 Million Is Going Straight To Amazon (AMZN)
AP Not that Jeff Bezos needs more money. See Also Investor: $50 Million Quora Deal Done In ‘Days, Not Weeks’ Facebook Millionaires And Billionaires Just Put $50 Million Into Their Friends’ Startup, Quora A Query With Quora: An Interview With Cofounder Adam D’Angelo So Quora, the hot question-and-answer site, just raised $50 million—some of...
Foursquare’s Cofounder Just Dropped A Big Hint About His Next Startup
Instagram See Also Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai ‘Tried To Fight’ His Departure From Foursquare Source On Foursquare Founder’s Departure: ‘Naveen Seemed Frustrated’ This VC Thinks Health Tracking Is About To Take Off — Like PCs In The 1970s When Naveen Selvadurai left Foursquare, the New York startup he cofounded with Dennis Crowley that lets you...
Report: Facebook Will Sell IPO Shares Between $34 and $38
Facebook’s Friday-morning IPO will be priced between $34 and $38 per share, according to AllThingsD’s sources. That puts the overall valuation up to $104 billion. Last week, Bloomberg reported that the Facebook investor roadshow was generating “lackluster interest,” but that doesn’t seem to be the case as the IPO gets closer. Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/m63VGielc4Q/report-facebook-will-sell-ipo-shares-between-34-and-38.php
Investor: $50 Million Quora Deal Done In ‘Days, Not Weeks’
JoshHannah.com Josh Hannah of Matrix Partners See Also A Non-Tech Person’s Guide To The Tech Bubble—And Why There ISN’T A Tech Bubble Facebook Millionaires And Billionaires Just Put $50 Million Into Their Friends’ Startup, Quora Shouldn’t Quora Be A Billion-Dollar Company? If you want to understand the power structure of Silicon Valley these days,...