Internet access is limited by service providers who act as gatekeepers to the treasures of connectivity. But could crowdsourcing connectivity be the solution to the problem for mobile users? That’s the question startup Open Garden is looking to answer. The San Francisco company, which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt this week, is releasing a set...
First reported by TechCrunch, Sean Parker and Sean Fanning’s stealth video startup Airtime has announced a new round of funding along with its first acquisition. According to TechCrunch, the amount of funding raised for its B round is $25M. That’s not bad for a product that hasn’t launched yet. Regarding the rest of the...
We’ve learned that Airtime, the video startup founded by famed Napster alums Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, has allegedly made its first acquisition — before truly exiting stealth mode. The target? Erly, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup aimed at letting people create social experiences around their experiences. Update: We’ve confirmed the acquisition with a source...
Uptime monitoring service Pingdom analyzed the top 10,000 websites on the web and unsurprisingly found out that 74.6% of them are served on web servers run by open source software. While it’s not surprising, it’s definitely impressive. Even more impressive is that Apache web service and nginx are used by 61% of the top...
Google’s doodle is already up in timezones where it’s Wednesday, and it’s awesome. It’s a working Moog (synthesizer) that has working keys and filters. So check out Google Ireland, and play with it. Google.ie (Via @lorcanrk) Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/DHWb0oB3qKs/go-to-googleie-right-now-and-play-with-the-google-doodle-2012-5
If you’re someone who thinks gamification is just a fad, you may want to look away now. To be clear, Bunchball isn’t just jumping on the latest buzzword. The company was founded to deliver gamification tools all the way back in 2005 — founder and Chief Product Officer Rajat Paharia has told me that...
If you’re interested in what’s “next” in the world of technology, then watching Google’s CEO speak at this year’s Zeitgeist is a can’t miss. Of course, his talk was centered around all of the areas that Google focuses on, but that’s becoming everything you can think of, basically. During his conversation, which started out...
Somehow, Trey Ratcliff must have missed the memo. Google+ is supposed to be a ghost town, if you believe numerous stories published over the last couple of months, but Ratcliff has been using the social network extensively to connect with fans and photo geeks alike. He is hosting Hangouts about photography, sharing his latest...
Here’s a super cool project from researchers at the University of Hawaii. They have found a way to create robot-like things out of bubbles. They call them “microbots.” They can steer the microbots with a laser. They can also use these microbots to surround a live cell and move it around. Think of this...
The relatively low cost of starting a tech business today has made this choice more enticing than ever. If you need only $5,000 or $10,000 to get going, is it worth the risk to put it on your cards? “I’m seeing more people using credit cards for financing,” says David Worrell, founding partner of...