Without question, there are quite a few spammers on Twitter. These fake accounts make you wonder how many active people truly do follow you on the service. Ever since people started talking about Facebook’s fake account issue, the spotlight has now been turned to Twitter. Is it full of “fakers?” An app called “Fakers”...
Daily Archives: August 13, 2012
Geospatial big data startup SpaceCurve nets another $3.5M
SpaceCurve, a Seattle-based startup that promises a new approach to analyzing massive amounts of geospatial data, has raised a $3.5 million second round of funding. The new money comes from existing investors Reed Elsevier (see disclosure) and Divergent Ventures, along with new investor Triage Ventures, and brings the company’s total funding to $5.2 million....
What Smart People Do When Mark Zuckerberg Signs Up For Your App (FB)
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images See Also The 9 Youngest Billionaires Around The World Here’s What Google’s Revenues Would Look Like If Facebook Never Existed Netflix CEO, And Facebook Board Member, Reed Hastings Bought 50,000 Shares Of Facebook Whenever Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joins a new social network, we obsess over it. A startup...
Speakers finalized for PDX, Portland’s tech and music conference
The final list of speakers has been approved for the Portland Digital Experience in early September, which will be held alongside the MNFW festival in the Rose City and focus on some of the latest trends in mobile, social, and digital content in between trips out to Pine State Biscuits. It might sound a...
Mark Zuckerberg And Steve Jobs Have One Weird Trait In Common (AAPL, FB)
Getty Images/Kevork Djansezian Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is an angel investor. Mark Zuckerberg is not. See Also NBC Mistook Jesse Eisenberg For Mark Zuckerberg During Olympics Coverage Meet Members Of Apple’s Elite Industrial Design Team THE ANGEL 100: New York’s Top Early Stage Investors Most successful founders of tech companies spread their wealth and...
Pranksters Commandeer Mountain Dew Web Promotion
It’s a rough time to be a social marketer, and getting rougher: Mountain Dew announced a naming contest for its new Apple flavor over the weekend. As if on cue, Internet pranksters hijacked the contest. Not content with stuffing the virtual ballot box, they defaced the contest website with videos, offensive banners and in-jokes....
Why App.net is No Threat to Twitter
App.net, a Twitter clone with a membership fee, has been touted as a powerful, developer-friendly alternative to Twitter. Massive adoption seems unlikely. But it doesn’t mean that App.net is doomed to failure, either. App.net, launched last month by iMeem and Picplz founder Dalton Caldwell, reached its financing goal over the weekend. As of Monday...
3 More Companies Say They’ll Build Microsoft Surface RT Tablets
Dell, Lenovo and Samsung have committed to building their own Surface RT tablets, Microsoft announced on Monday, building out an ecosystem for the company’s heavily hyped new Windows 8 platform. Microsoft also disclosed new details about the capabilities of the new tablets, including that they will be able to sit within a “connected standby”...
Google-Frommer’s deal shows travel and local are two sides of same coin
Google’s acquisition of travel publisher Frommer‘s is being framed as another big push by the search giant to get into travel, following its purchase of ITA. But the deal also highlights how the worlds of travel and local are converging, with the two databases coming together as one big resource for consumers. In announcing the...
Could former Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo take a suffering T-Mobile private?
The U.S. telecom industry’s globetrotting and controversial CEO Sol Trujillo may be returning home, not to head up a U.S. operator but to buy one. Trujillo, who formerly headed up baby Bell US West, France Telecom’s Orange and Australia’s Telstra, now has his eyes on T-Mobile USA and has approached some big private equity...