Launching its public beta in the fall of last year, 300milligrams (also known as “300.mg,”) set out to build a “priority inbox for team conversations.” The startup was one of the 34 teams in 500 Startups’ Fall 2011 batch, and, after graduating in January, spent the first half of this year iterating, trying to...
As the world’s dominant social network — with more than 900 million registered users — it is in every Web company’s best interests to play nicely with Facebook. Twitter looks like it is about to get a little more out of the site than most, after we discovered that tweets shared as status updates...
Ray Bradbury was right about so many things and spellbinding about so many others that it almost hurts to write this: Ray Bradbury was wrong when it came to reading. But then I also get to tell you this: he changed his mind. HarperCollins is in the midst of preparing its Ray Bradbury backlist...
Leah Busque, the founder of TaskRabbit, the web and mobile marketplace for outsourcing small jobs and errands, has reassumed the role of CEO at the San Francisco-based startup. It was just this past fall that Busque handed over the chief executive title to Eric Grosse, an experienced web executive best known for co-founding Hotwire...
Apple has agreed to pay settlement costs of $2.25 million to end a legal case that accuses the company of misleading the Australian public over the 4G-compatibility of the new iPad in the country, according to The Australian. The Cupertino-based firm told a Federal Court hearing today that it has agreed the pay-out, after...
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LinkedIn is working with law enforcement to investigate the recent leak of millions of its users hashed passwords, says Director Vicente Silveira. In a blog post, Silveira also said that no email logins linked to the accounts had been leaked, making it more difficult for those passwords to be put to use. “From the...
Facebook just unveiled its App Center, a directory of apps which use Facebook’s social graph on both Web and mobile. At an event for developers at the Bluxome Street Winery in San Francisco by the train station, Facebook executives Doug Purdy and Matt Wyndowe gave a brief presentation of App Center’s features. Facebook has been...
Facebook announced Thursday that it’s launching an app center for its mobile platform, allowing users to get personalized app recommendations on their phones through the Facebook app. The app center not only demonstrates the company’s close ties with third-party app developers, but also its desire to get serious about mobile. Facebook’s app store will...
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