Remember Looxcie? The folks behind those tiny, ear-mounted video cameras that first popped up a few years ago? The company has been keeping to itself these past few months, mostly because the team has been slaving away some new and updated apps that they’re finally willing to talk about. The LooxcieLive mobile app has...
The digital marketing world has gone gaga over LUMA Partner’s collection of insanely intricate and visually complex infographics that aim to bring order to a confusing digital media landscape. Called LUMAscapes, these charts track the hundreds of companies that make up the mobile marketing, social media marketing, and e-commerce ecosystems. This particular graphic, created by LUMA...
Apple’s request for an injunction against eight of Samsung’s smartphones has been pushed back from an original date of September 20 to December 6, Reuters reports. The September 20 meeting has instead been repurposed to decide whether to remove the sales ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. According to the report, U.S. District Judge...
As an industry, digital health is at an interesting point, where smartphones and tablets allow consumers to create and upload massive amounts of personal data without expending much effort, and cloud computing allows them to track and share that data with doctors or the public in ways they’d never been able to before. But...
Silicon Valley is full of hustlers, and that’s often a good thing. But there’s a difference between hustling and flat-out lying, and when people deceive company after company, it’s time to call them out. So: If you look up Shirley Hornstein online, you might get the idea that she’s one of the most well-connected...
A dramatic aborted landing in St. Maarten yesterday, as an Air France 340 realized that it was going to land short of the runway and decided at the last second to go around. It landed safely on the second pass, apparently. * A few readers have objected to the description “almost crashed” in the...
A dramatic aborted landing in St. Maarten yesterday, as an Air France 340 realized that it was going to land short of the runway and decided at the last second to go around. It landed safely on the second pass, apparently. * A few readers have objected to the description “almost crashed” in the...
North Bridge Jamie Goldstein, VC at North Bridge Partners Startups working in “very un-hot” areas have become super sexy targets for VC funding, North Bridge partner Jamie Goldstein told Business Insider. VCs are “calling my companies and asking, ‘What can you do with $50 million?’ The phone is ringing off the hook,” he says....
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post just tweeted around this chart, which short-circuits some of the prevailing myths about who and what are responsible for our deficit problem. The chart is from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. It breaks down the amount of our national debt, historical and projected, by the budget...
Yesterday NoSQL company Citrusleaf announced an undisclosed new round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Apparently the someone thought “Citrusleaf” was too soft and friendly a name for today’s more mature NoSQL audience, so the company also got a grimmer, grittier name: Aerospike. But it didn’t stop there. The company needed even more...