As Internet expert Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has helpfully pointed out, mobile still has huge monetization potential that is still largely untapped. Location-based advertising may prove to be one of the key ways in which mobile Internet companies can boost mobile advertising revenue and close the gap with traditional Internet ads. Location-based ad provider...
When it comes to selecting subjects for very large and very expensive telescopes to study, scientists typically have to submit detailed proposals, wait for months and then often get shot down. Now, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which operates one of the biggest of these devices, the Very Large Telescope in the northern Chilean desert, is...
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Apple is reportedly going to release a “iPad mini” this fall and it will resemble a larger iPod Touch, rather than a smaller iPad, according to two reports tonight. Seth Weintraub at 9 To 5 Mac and Rene Ritchie at iMore both say the smaller iPad will have thin bezels along its edges, making...
Today, seed fund and startup accelerator Tigerlabs hosted its first Demo Day in Princeton, New Jersey. Co-founded by Jason Glickman (co-founder of Tremor Video) and Bert Navarrete (long-time investor) and with James Smits (recent Princeton graduate) as program director, it provides a 3-month summer accelerator program with $20,000 in funding. Seven teams of first-time...
Curbed your Quora reading habits after the company announced it would publish what you looked at? Don’t worry, you can go back to reading without worry, as Quora announced today that due to negative user response, it would no longer display which posts were read by which users. On the Quora blog, the company explained...
The iPad mini is a real thing, whether it’s announced on September 12th or at some point in the future, it’s going to happen. That’s the conclusion that I’ve come to after numerous bits of information from sources, as well as information that has made its way to other bloggers that I trust. If...
Airtime planned to reach millions through real-time Facebook Chat invites to video calls. But private messages can’t go viral, so two months after launch it’s hoping for growth through public video posts to Twitter and Facebook. Since AppData shows Airtime as having just 1000 daily and 90,000 monthly actives, finding a distribution method that snowballs...
The hottest thing on the Internet, or perhaps in the galaxy, is the NASA team that put the Mars Science Laboratory team that put the Curiosity Rover on Mars. Whether it’s the fact that we’re on Mars in a big way, or that a dude on the team has a rad haircut, people are...
Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone are at it again. Having launched two new publishing platforms — Blogger in 1999 and, more recently, Twitter – the duo unveiled a new platform Tuesday that wants to make an “evolutionary leap,” based on what the pair has learned over the past 13 years. Called Medium,...