Apple may have just landed a $1 billion plus blow on Samsung but the Cupertino-based company has been less successful in Japan, where a judge ruled against a patent lawsuit it took out against its Korean rival. Bloomberg reports that Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji ruled that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and one of its tablet do...
Daily Archives: August 30, 2012
Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care
Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big, difficult problems. I mean the type of trenchant problems no one likes to talk about — the ones that are solved over years (if at all) and can affect...
Etsy’s Community Has Already Sold More Than $500 Million This Year
Etsy Etsy’s recent $40 million round makes it worth about $700 million. See Also Here’s Why Etsy Is Worth Almost $700 Million One Of New York’s Hottest Startups Just Raised $40 Million Etsy’s Winning Secret: Don’t Play The Blame Game! Etsy’s CEO Chad Dickerson recently announced a big company milestone. Last year, the company’s...
Box CEO Aaron Levie Talks About His Love/Hate Relationship With Microsoft (MSFT)
Box Box CEO Aaron Levie has mixed feelings about the software giant. See Also Box’s Aaron Levie Is Absolutely Glowing Over Hiring Sam Schillace Away From Google With A Fresh $125 Million Financing, Box Officially Becomes A Billion-Dollar Company Oops! Oracle Accidentally Leaks A Confidential Sales Document Aaron Levie grew up in Microsoft’s backyard....
How Twitter Uses Open Source
Twitter’s Chris Aniszcyk gave a keynote address this morning at CloudOpen and talked about how Twitter uses open source. His talk provided insights into how open source technology can also be used in an enterprise environment for scaling infrastructure. That’s an emerging topic of interest in the enterprise world. Aniszcyk reviewed the open source technologies...
Facebook To Roll Out Email- and Phone Number-Based Ad Targeting Next Week
Facebook will be launching new features next week that allow advertisers to target their ads to customers based on contact information that the advertiser has already collected. It’s a way for businesses to connect their Facebook ads with the customer lists they may have built up elsewhere. Inside Facebook first reported on the feature...
del.icio.us founder’s Tasty Labs launches Human.io micro-task platform
Joshua Schachter, who in a past life founded the social-bookmarking service delicious and sold it to Yahoo, has released Human.io, the newest offering from his startup, Tasty Labs. Last year, Tasty Labs launched Jig.com, a “market place for things people need.” What is Human.io? To me it appears to be a micro-task platform that uses...
Workday CEO David Duffield Only Pays Himself $35K In Salary
Wikipedia Dave Duffield Workday is about to go public and the CEO’s salary information was revealed in documents filed with the SEC: $34,780. That’s also what Workday pays co-founder Aneel Bhusri. As for bonuses, they each gave themselves a tiny $1,500. To compare, they paid the company’s COO, Michael Stankey, $1.2 million between salary,...
3D Pac-Man is all kinds of off (and on) the wall fun
It’s not Friday, which means that smiles must be artificially induced. Allow TNW to deliver. After all, not every day can lead to the weekend. The following video clip is the sort of thing that you watch, and then wish that you had had cooler parents growing up. The game in the clip, Pac-Man,...
Amazon goes with Nokia instead of Google for new Kindle Fire maps
We knew that Amazon was looking for other ways to fill out the mapping components of the Kindle Fire without going to Google, because it just bought itself a 3D mapping company UpNext in July. Now, there’s additional indications that it doesn’t want Google in the maps slot, as Reuters reports that Amazon is hooking...