Daily Archives: June 5, 2012

MOG just landed on a new device platform: Fords

June 5, 2012
MOG just landed on a new device platform: Fords

You can already access music subscription service MOG on your smartphone, tablet, PC, and many home entertainment appliances. Now it’s moving onto the biggest gadget of them all, the car. MOG is launching on Ford’s Sync connected car platform, closely integrating its $10 monthly music-on-demand service with Ford’s on-board infotainment system. The key to...

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thePlatform Goes Mid-Market, Introduces mpx Essentials To Compete With Brightcove And Ooyala

June 5, 2012
thePlatform Goes Mid-Market, Introduces mpx Essentials To Compete With Brightcove And Ooyala

Before Brightcove, Ooyala, or KIT Digital, there was thePlatform: The online video platform was founded in 2000, long before online video was a thing. Since then, thePlatform has been mainly focused on the upper end of the market, helping cable companies, television networks, and other large media players to get their content online and...

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LinkedIn: ‘Ensuring More Privacy And Control Over Your Personal Data Remains Our Highest Priority’ (LNKD)

June 5, 2012
LinkedIn: ‘Ensuring More Privacy And Control Over Your Personal Data Remains Our Highest Priority’ (LNKD)

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner has some explaining to do. We just told you that the calendar sync was the best feature in LinkedIn’s mobile app. Now security researchers Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani told the New York Times that it may be its worst feature. Instead of just pulling the basics of a calendar entries,...

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Shhhh, Larry Ellison’s about to tweet!

June 5, 2012
Shhhh, Larry Ellison’s about to tweet!

There’s a ton of cloud computing hubbub this week as  Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Oracle all host  gala events to strut their respective visions. So it’s telling that most of the buzz centers on what exactly, Larry Ellison will tweet some time tomorrow. And, I don’t think the interest has much to do with cloud. Yes,...

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Cannon.fm: It’s More Than Just Pandora For Local Bands (Video)

June 5, 2012
Cannon.fm: It’s More Than Just Pandora For Local Bands (Video)

Intrigued upon hearing about these StartupWeekend vets, I managed to track down Cannon.fm founders Ryan Cox and Mat Marcum in order to get a little more info about their interesting and imminently launching streaming music startup. Cannon.fm is like a lot of other streaming music services out there — Pandora and Spotify come to...

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Tell HBO how much you’d pay for a standalone streaming service with Takemymoneyhbo.com

June 5, 2012
Tell HBO how much you’d pay for a standalone streaming service with Takemymoneyhbo.com

Sites like Netflix and LoveFilm have shown that watching content via the Web doesn’t have to be all about Torrents and pirated content, but yet many of the most established names in broadcasting are still to fully take the plunge online. HBO is arguably the most significant among them, and it’s an issue that...

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SPOTTED: The First Tesla Model S Sedan

June 5, 2012
SPOTTED: The First Tesla Model S Sedan

Tesla’s Model S sedan is the second model in Tesla’s lineup and has been through a long gestation period. But it seems the wait is over. Twitter user Evan Moore, @evancharles, saw the first car delivered to a customer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Who’s the owner? Steve Jurvetson, a Managing Director...

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AWKWARD! Ellen Pao Is Still Showing Up For Work Every Day At Kleiner Perkins, The VC Firm She’s Suing

June 5, 2012
AWKWARD! Ellen Pao Is Still Showing Up For Work Every Day At Kleiner Perkins, The VC Firm She’s Suing

KPCB Ellen Pao, Investment Partner at KPCB See Also Kleiner Perkins Hires Square’s Director Of Products, Megan Quinn John Doerr Calls Sex Discrimination Charges Against Kleiner Perkins ‘False Allegations’ This Is The Most Appalling Allegation In The Big Kleiner Perkins Discrimination Lawsuit Ellen Pao, who’s suing the fabled venture-capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield...

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WWDC 2012 Banners go up at Moscone West in SF: “Where great ideas go on to do great things.”

June 5, 2012
WWDC 2012 Banners go up at Moscone West in SF: “Where great ideas go on to do great things.”

Apple has begun decorating the Moscone West center in San Francisco for its WWDC 2012 conference. The banner this year mimics Apple’s colorful invite logo and features the slogan: “Where great ideas go on to do great things.” Note that this is very early for Apple to start placing banners in Moscone. We weren’t...

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15 More Utterly Appalling QR Code Fails

June 5, 2012
15 More Utterly Appalling QR Code Fails

See Also These Brands Are Doing Amazing Things With Instagram Those Bewitching Dogs Diving Underwater Are Now Selling Hot Sauce Britain’s 10 Most Controversial Ads Of All Time Even though Quick Response (QR) codes are significantly more effective when placed in newspapers and magazines, that doesn’t stop over-eager marketers from putting the scanable codes...

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