Remember when Google announced all that new mapping work that they had been working on, about 8 minutes before Apple launched its new maps app, booting the search giant to the curb? Well, you can often smell what is coming next by the actions of competitors, on the eve of a promised announcement. Companies make...
Daily Archives: June 16, 2012
A Deeper Look Inside Apple’s Secrecy And Its Sustainability
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 12-city event series helping educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. He’s also ex-Electronic Arts, the founder Commonred, as well as product incubator Vaporware Labs. WWDC this past week confirmed that Apple is as strong as ever. The company’s steady stream of new products and announcements are a good indication...
Bed Battles wants to make waking up … social?
Can you be social before you have your first cup of coffee? Bed Battles thinks so, and it wants you to enlist your friends to get out of bed sooner. The web app lets friends challenge each other to wake up on time by sending each other text messages. The message will prompt you...
MAULDIN: The ‘Bang!’ Moment Is Here
The Dark Knight Rises John Mauldin “Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence – especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously – is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. “Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can...
MAULDIN: The "Bang!" Moment Is Here
The Dark Knight Rises John Mauldin “Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence – especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously – is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. “Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can...
Voyager Is Leaving The Solar System!
Wikipedia The Voyager 1 space probe, which launched in 1977, has now reached the edge of the solar system Chris Wickham at Reuters reports. It will soon become the first and only man-made object to enter interstellar space, Voyager is now about 18 billion kilometers from the sun. It’s traveling at 17 kilometers per...
Dennis Crowley of Foursquare: “I’ve never worked on a product as well received as 5.0″
Following the launch of a completely new Foursquare app on iOS and Android, CEO Dennis Crowley must feel like a major burden has been lifted off his shoulders. After months of honing in on the major redesign, Crowley said waking up the next day “was like Christmas morning.” The 5.0 launch wasn’t without its critics, however, and plenty of saddened Windows...
From TC40 To $10.1M In Funding And A $120M Acquisition, TripIt Tells All
It feels like only days have passed since TechCrunch Disrupt NYC went down, but as every season turns (turns, turns…) another Disrupt is on the horizon. Our San Francisco event will commence on September 8, and every time preparation begins for the massive conference I can’t help but take a look back at the...
Simple Is Ramping Up Its Revolution In Banking—Square’s Cofounder Just Got His Card
Tristan O’Tierney is lucky, and not just because he’s the cofounder of Square, a hot payments startup that could already be worth billions. As of today, O’Tierney is one of the few people holding a new debit card from Simple, another hot financial-services startup. Simple is ramping up on mailing out cards to the more...
More Than 100,000 People Want The Gorgeous Simple Debit Card Square’s Cofounder Just Got
Tristan O’Tierney is lucky, and not just because he’s the cofounder of Square, a hot payments startup that could already be worth billions. As of today, O’Tierney is one of the few people holding a new debit card from Simple, another hot financial-services startup. Simple appears to have started recently mailing out cards to the...