Yesterday we outlined five reasons why Web publishing is undergoing a sea change, via new services like Medium, Branch, Svtle and App.net. In today’s post, we turn our attention to the readers. We’re all readers, in some capacity. So the changes we’re witnessing in publishing affect us all. Here’s what it will mean to...
IBM’s acquisition today of Texas Memory Systems (TMS) is more proof that customer data demands will fuel a new wave of flash technologies to replace the hard drive systems that have dominated the market for the past 30 years. The acquisition points to a number of shifts in the flash market. Alliances are changing,...
Twitter’s long-awaited crackdown on outside apps could prove to be one of the boldest and most controversial moves in its history. But if you consider Twitter’s position, it’s actually reasonable. And it could play an important role in Twitter’s survival. Twitter Today Twitter continues to grow in every way. Its name and iconic blue-bird logo...
Apple’s plans to turn its Apple TV into a cable set-top box involve a cloud DVR feature that would allow viewers to tune into shows any time they want, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Other demands made by Apple apparently include extended windows for VOD content. The Journal didn’t share...
Claiming a desire to deliver “a more consistent Twitter experience,” today the San Francisco company announced a laundry list of changes, many of them vague, to how developers can access tweets, prompting outrage, confusion and frustration from the third party developers who piggyback on the microblogging site’s ecosystem. Many view the move as the latest...
NYC-based Thrillist Media Group, which started out as a daily email lifestyle newsletter for guys and expanded into fashion with its 2010 acquisition of men’s clothing site JackThreads, will officially announce Friday that it’s raised $13.1 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Oak Investment Partners, the VC firm that has...
The Japanese mobile gaming companies came. They saw. And they still have yet to conquer Western consumer markets, but at least they’re showing some financial progress. Japan’s GREE today said that its U.S. studios have now seen about $29 million in revenue in the first-half. No word on profits though, but we do hear...
Do you own your own business? Are you an entrepreneur running a startup? If so, we’d like to hear about your biggest challenges. Do you spend a lot of time thinking about how to market your business? What do you like best about your company? Business Insider would like to hear about what keeps...
Livestreaming service Ustream is throwing a big party tonight, and like so many Silicon Valley parties, it’s doubling as a product launch, where executives are demonstrating the company’s Broadcast For Friends app for iOS. (It stands for BFF, which is, okay, actually kind of clever.) Senior Vice President of Marketing David Thompson took a...
Today at its office in San Francisco, Ustream announced a new application called ‘Broadcast for Friends,’ which allows smartphone owners to stream live video from their phones, to Facebook, where their friends can tune in live and see what’s happening. Following a broadcast, the video is saved, and placed on the user’s profile, where...