In a bar and don’t want to give your cell number to a stranger? Selling a table on Craigslist and don’t want randos knowing how to reach you at all times? Or, perhaps you’ve watched reruns of The Wire one too many times? Say hello to Burner, the app that lets users purchase short-term...
Flickr/TechShowNetwork In a big shock, HP announced a messy pile of news this morning. Essentially, there is a reorg, a writedown, an increased restructuring charge, and to make it all go down a little bit more easily, an increase in guidance for Q3 EPS. Phew! It’s a lot to sort through, but the stock...
Dave Girouard, the former president of Google Enterprise, has struck out on his own with a new startup called Upstart, which offers crowdfunding and mentorship tools to help college graduates pursue (in his words) “a more entrepreneurial path.” Girouard argues that there’s currently a “misallocation of capital in our economy” — the fact that...
While the technology to sell content directly to consumers has existed for a while, few seemed to take advantage of it. Then something changed: First there was Louis C.K., selling his one-hour special Live At The Beacon Theatre to fans for just $5, DRM-free and all. Then Aziz Ansari followed suit. So did Jim...
A college grad with a computer science degree from a brand-name school typically has little trouble snagging a good job and perhaps even launching a startup — even in this tough economy. But there’s an untapped reservoir of creative talent in college– people that could build next-generation startups — that is getting lost in...
Silicon Forest, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Beach, Silicon Hills, Silicon Sandbar. Nice ideas, all of them. But let’s get real. Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more troublr attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito. Location...
Wired Apple has temporarily plugged the security loophole that allowed Wired editor Mat Honan to be brutally hacked over the weekend. Honan’s hacker was able to reset Honan’s Apple ID password over the phone using the last four digits of Honan’s credit card number. The hacker was then able to access Honan’s Twitter account,...
Microsoft’s upcoming Surface tablet could be the first crack in the company’s Windows 8 world. Acer chief executive JT Wang told the Financial Times that the company will have to “think over” its commitment to Windows now that Microsoft plans to directly compete in the Windows hardware market. “We have said think...
Three months after DataSift announced a $7.2m funding round, the social data company has announced the launch of its New York office, as well as two new key hires. DataSift is a real-time social-data mining platform developed by MediaSift Ltd, the same company behind TweetMeme. We reported on the launch of DataSift back in...
The vultures are circling around Kodak’s bankruptcy proceedings, ready to pick clean the best of the company’s reportedly substantial patent portfolio. With Google and Apple leading the flock, and accused patent trolls like Intellectual Ventures joining in, the pickings may determine the future of the mobile market. Kodak, which is selling off the patents...