The Internet has tapped the wisdom of the crowd, but a new startup is about to test its taste. On Monday, Venice, Calif.-based StyleSaint announced that it had raised $1.5 million in funding from Andreesen Horowitz, Catalyst Partners, Crosscut Ventures and others to turn digital fashion magazines (or so-called “stylebooks”) into crowd-inspired, designer-quality clothing....
Google chief executive Larry Page has revealed that the search giant is still waiting for Facebook to get in touch to allow users to share data between the two companies’ services. Google and Facebook have long had a frosty relationship, which was particularly spiked when an adjustment of Google’s terms of service preventing Facebook users...
The team behind Salesforce.com’s enterprise social networking app Chatter is making a big push for real-time communication with two new features — Chatter Messenger and Chatter Screensharing. Chatter Product Marketing Director Dave King demonstrated Messenger and Screensharing for me earlier today and, well, they look like instant messaging and screensharing, just, y’know, in Chatter....
Hacking group Anonymous has claimed it has grabbed 1.7 GB of data belonging to the US Justice Department, although the US organisation has played down the sensitivity of the haul that was taken from one of its websites. In the latest move against the DoJ, the hacktivist collective says that the information in its...
Like Milo before it, Wishpond launched in late 2010 to build a local search engine that aggregates realtime inventory and product listings from brick and mortar retail stores — from big chains to mom and pop shops. The startup has since focused its efforts on developing social commerce solutions for retailers, launching tools like...
Yahoo’s agreement over the weekend to sell half of its stake in Alibaba for $7 billion ends a longstanding feud thaty wasn’t benefiting either company. With Yahoo’s share reduced to 20%, Alibaba Chief Executive Jack Ma now has the control needed to steer the company in any direction he chooses. For Yahoo, the deal...
Wikimedia Commons You couldn’t just exclude apple from Genesis. The earnings season naysayers are quick to point to Apple’s size and staggering growth rate as key to corporate profit growth during the first quarter. As such, it has become popular to talk about earnings growth ex-Apple, which is far below the inclusive growth rate....
Google See Also Here’s The First Ever License Plate For A Self-Driving Car Here’s What Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Is Working On Now 1 In 5 Say They Would Buy A Self-Driving Car The California Senate passed a bill today that would let autonomous vehicles roam the state’s roads and highways. California Senate Bill...
In wireless there is a world of component suppliers and device makers that don’t get much attention. They don’t design the latest smartphone or build the multi-billion-dollar networks that feed those devices high bandwidth connections. Many of these vendors may be embedded in the guts of device or lingering on the fringes of mobile...
A series of emails between Arianna Huffington, her partners and the late conservative activist Andrew Breitbart shed new light about the early days of popular liberal news site Huffington Post. The story of the site’s founding is the subject of a bitter lawsuit filed by two Democratic political advisers who claim Huffington blatantly stole...