Last week it emerged that Rocket Internet has entered Myanmar, and now it seems that the Germany-headquartered company also has plans for Cambodia, where it has launched an e-commerce site. The Pheom Penh Post reports that Khmer-English retail site shop.com.kh, which is currently stocked with a range of electronics items, including laptops, mobile phones, etc. The...
888 Brannan: new home of AirBnB If you were looking for signs of hyper-inflation in the San Francisco real estate market, then look no further than 888 Brannan, an iconic 95-year-old building that till recently played home to San Francisco’s Jewelry Mart. This building is across the street from the San Francisco Concourse Exhibit Center,...
The Washington, D.C.-based think tank Future of Privacy Forum (“FPF”) released a study this week detailing the current state of mobile app privacy policies as of this past month, June 2012. The report found that many app developers are now responding to the increased pressure from U.S. regulators on this issue, and have now introduced...
Over the weekend, news reports emerged that Facebook was buying Spool, a mobile-oriented social bookmarking service started by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer. At the surface, this seems like yet another acqua-hire but scratch a little deeper and you start to understand Facebook’s motivation in buying this company. Spool was started in late 2010 and launched an app that essentially...
It’s been a good 15 years or so for BV Capital, early stage venture capital firm that was founded back in 1998. But it now will be going by a new name — e.Ventures — with a renewed emphasis on the global footprint it has amassed over the years beyond its San Francisco headquarters....
Tom Gieselmann of E.ventures See Also This Startup That Angered A Lot Of Open Source Fans Just Got $30 Million In Funding BV Capital is relaunching tonight as E.ventures, a network of five connected global funds. We wouldn’t write about the renaming of a venture-capital firm normally—except that E.ventures has such a rich and...
First, I’d like to thank all the readers who commented on our post. Some of the criticisms made me cringe, such as being called a “link-baiting whore,” while other remarks were more insightful and worth taking seriously. But whether the comments were for or against the post, I’m humbled that so many people took...
Editor’s note: Leo Chen is a former product manager at Amazon and is currently the co-founder of Monogram, an iPad fashion discovery and shopping app funded by 500 Startups. You can find Leo on Twitter @leoalmighty; this article builds on one he previously wrote for us, here. Mark Suster’s post on why “media is racing...
Editor’s Note: Murthy Nukala is the founder and CEO of Adchemy, a provider of advertising technology for large brands. On a whim, I recently purchased a Logitech Keyboard Case for my new iPad. Instead of being just a novelty accessory, the keyboard has fundamentally changed my device usage: I’m using my iPad-plus-keyboard in meetings;...
The discussion of wired and wireless broadband often takes on the righteous aura of a holy war. Devotees of one camp or the other are adamant that theirs is the only true religion in the national effort to get broadband everywhere it needs to be. Perhaps proponents of TV white space and other unlicensed...