Snapchat hopes to outgrow its bad rap as a sexting app, but first it’s outgrowing the Stanford dorm room where it started. Today it announced it has hired a community manager and two engineers, and has now been used to share 110 million photos that each disappear after a set time limit. Now its...
In case you missed it, gadget blog Gizmodo is asking its readers to take pictures of Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. For $20. That’s right, Gizmodo is willing to pay people to stalk Zuck. Not only is this creepy, but it’s clearly a way to get pageviews and attention. I guess by linking back to...
Gizmodo posted a “story” yesterday entitled “We’ll Pay You for Photos of Mark Zuckerberg.” Desperation aside, this is as crazy as it is stupid (And we’re not even sure it’s legal). See, Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of a company. Sure, that company is all about sharing with friends, but when you have more...
After disappointing post-IPO performances from Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, there’s been a clarion call from top investors like Union Square’s Fred Wilson, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham and Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker for everyone to simmer down with valuations. But from what we can tell, any adjustment is going to take several months. For the...
Steve Jobs’s last public appearance was a very different kind of product unveiling: He appeared before the city council of Cupertino, Calif., forever Apple’s hometown, to pitch plans for a gigantic new headquarters building that looked like a UFO planted in a serene forest. Now the company has submitted new renderings to the city,...
We were able to walk right up to the Moscone Center in San Francisco and snap pictures of the banners Apple’s hanging for next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where it will unveil new products like iOS 6. That will change in 2015, after Apple builds its gigantic new spaceship headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Apple...
Creating great ads on Google search results is an artform. In fact, there’s a whole industry of folks who are specialists. It seems like online meeting service GoToMeeting found a phrase that gets itself clicks: the name of its competitor MeetingBurner. Needless to say, MeetingBurner isn’t very happy about this and took to its...
Hear that noise? That’s the sound of a hundred press releases and announcements being ground to a pulp, the pulp being formed into a sort of hollow, vapid blog arrow, and that arrow being aimed squarely at Techmeme. I don’t know, but ever since some of our most prolific writers left the blog game...
Want all your favorite contacts in one, easy to find place? Setting up speed-dial contact list is easy on the iPhone. And you can also switch the order of your favorites is seconds. Watch the video to learn how: Produced by Daniel Goodman Don’t Miss: • How To Sync Your Calendar With LinkedIn’s New...
If you guessed Apple, then you’re right. The story of how Apple accounts for much of the SP 500′s earnings growth is a bit stale. Demand coming from high-growth areas like Asia and stable regions like the U.S. is well known. But the fact that it is growing so strongly in Europe – where...