It’s been a long time in coming. After first filing to go public in late 2010, Kayak finally came to market today debuting as a public company on NASDAQ, trading under “KYAK.” The travel bookings company has hit its fair share of bumps along the way, thanks to unsteady market conditions, erratic earnings, and...
Lean Startup Machine wants to bring some young blood to its startup workshops — on its own dime. The new initiative is called the Branch Scholarship Program, supposedly because it was inspired by the founders of Branch, a startup that aims “to turn the Internet’s monologues into dialogues” and has backing from The Obvious...
Anyone who has ever hopped on a Los Angeles-area freeway between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. knows too well what gridlock feels like. Los Angelenos may soon be able to find some solace soon, thanks to a pilot program between Xerox and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority that uses big data to keep traffic...
TNW has been covering cybersecurity legislation in the US Senate ever since the moment the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) passed the house, tossing the ball into the higher chamber’s court. If you have been following TNW’s reporting, skip to the end of this post. For those of you a bit behind, and...
As smartphone adoption increases and mobile technology becomes more powerful, it’s changing the way in which people interact with health information. The popularity of health and medical apps has begun to explode, and the amount of health data along with it, much of it thanks to those increasingly wearable and user-friendly gizmos that use...
The President’s Council of Advisors on Policy and Technology wants the Obama administration to get aggressive about making more spectrum available for commercial use. It’s not only advising the government double to 1000 MHz the amount of federal spectrum being targeted for new mobile and wireless networks, but also to make a good portion...
Now that the amazing email client Sparrow has been acquired by Google, competitors are trying to move in and pick up some of its users. Sparrow’s team won’t be adding any new features, but one company, Postbox, is. The company decided to buy a promoted tweet to try and lure some folks to leave...
DISRUPT Extra Early Bird ticket sales end tonight at 11:59 PM PST, so buy your tickets now! If you miss the Extra Early Bird tickets, you’ll be able to buy Early Bird tickets until August 11th. Our confirmed speaker line up includes industry luminaries like Mike Arrington, Marissa Mayer, Marc Benioff, Joel Klein, Ben Horowitz,...
Earlier this week, YouTube took down videos attacking President Obama due to a copyright claim by music publishing giant BMG Rights Management. The clips, which featured Obama singing Al Green’s hit “Let’s Stay Together,” fell squarely within the Supreme Court’s fair use guidelines. YouTube’s action illustrates how its copyright enforcement policy allows politically motivated organizations...
Kim Dotcom, founder of the file-sharing site Megaupload, has released a song dedicated to President Barack Obama on his new website. The site, kim.com, features information about the heretofore bungled case against the 38-year-old dual citizen of Germany and Finland as well as a countdown to his extradition hearing, which was recently pushed back to March 2013. Kim...