Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the book DIGITAL VERTIGO, authored by TechCrunch columnist Andrew Keen. It occurred to me that the corpse might make more human sense after I’d expressed myself about it on Biz Stone’s Twitter where, as @ajkeen, I had a following of several thousand followers. Squeezing the rectangular...
Editor’s Note: Sales Marketing Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech products occasionally on her personal blog, Leslie Just Joined. Two weeks ago I sat next to Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal at a dinner. Because I cannot help myself...
Editor’s Note: Sales Marketing Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech products occasionally on her personal blog, Leslie Just Joined. Two weeks ago I sat next to Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal at a dinner. Because I cannot help myself...
Looks like a talent acquisition. Smells like a talent acquisition. Meebo, the chat and publishers tools company that Google acquired for roughly $100 million, is going to see most of its products shut down next month. That includes Meebo Messenger, the sharing widgets and mobile apps. The one major product that will keep running...
Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Christian Springub, co-founder of Jimdo, a DIY website creator. Since Jimdo launched in 2007, it has grown into an international company fully supporting 11 languages and operating successfully from offices in Hamburg, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shanghai. In his guest post Christian talks about internationalization and...
Well, file this one in the “whoops” category. Microsoft launched some updates to its Azure cloud platform this week. And, as Todd Bishop of GeekWire observed, some folks in Norway got so excited that they preceded the Azure presentation at the Norwegian Developers Conference with the following dance routine. Basically, it’s scantily clad girls...
Apple See Also FOR BEGINNERS: Everything About Setting Up Speed-Dial Contacts In Your iPhone The Best Products Apple Has Ever Announced At Its Annual Summer Developers Conference Apple, Please Add This Simple Feature To My iPhone! Check out these awesome apps that are sure your supercharge your iOS experience. This week’s apps...
What can coal teach us about the cloud? Today, conventional wisdom suggests that cloud computing will bring increased efficiency to computing markets, which will then decrease costs. Cloud computing will allow organizations to cut IT spending and help relieve pressure on IT budgets. It’s a nice vision, but that’s not going to happen. The...
Millennials: They Aren’t So Tech Savvy After All Even as millennials (those born and raised around the turn of the century) enter college with far more exposure to computer and mobile technology than their parents ever did, professors are increasingly finding that their students’ comfort zone is often limited to social media and Internet...
South Korea, home of technology titans such as smartphone king Samsung and LG, hasn’t had much experience building a Silicon Valley ecosystem. Like Japan, many of the best and brightest end up at its big conglomerates, where much of the innovation happens. But that is slowly changing and a new breed of entrepreneurs is trying...