Daily Archives: August 31, 2012

Facebook Crashes Even Lower (FB)

August 31, 2012
Facebook Crashes Even Lower (FB)

Flickr/Guillaume Paumier Facebook’s stock has crashed to a new all-time low. It’s at $18.12, a 5.08 percent crash, as of this writing. The reason for the stock slump appears to be a negative analyst report from BMO. We don’t have the note yet, but apparently it cut its price target to $15.

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New Startup Grouper Sounds Like One Of The Best Ways To Meet New People To Date

August 31, 2012
New Startup Grouper Sounds Like One Of The Best Ways To Meet New People To Date

Grouper See Also ONE YEAR LATER: After A Tweak, Twitch.tv Is Now One Of Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startups Our Startup Saw Explosive Growth When We Started Spending More Face-Time With Customers VOTE NOW: Help Us Choose The World’s Best Design School Instead of relying on machine-driven algorithms to find you a potential date or...

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Coming To A Restaurant Near You: Online Food Delivery

August 31, 2012

This week’s eyebrow-raising $49 million round of funding for German food-ordering site Delivery Hero as well as a flurry of similar recent deals, indicate that consumers and restaurant owners want digital delivery.  The U.S. restaurant industry is enormous — $632 billion in annual sales, according to the National Restaurant Association – but also cruelly efficent. The rate...

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Did Anyone Else Think This Romney Line Was A Bit Rich Considering His Former Profession?

August 31, 2012
Did Anyone Else Think This Romney Line Was A Bit Rich Considering His Former Profession?

Screenshot Yes, I know how much it sucks. I’ve fired a lot of people like you. See Also Matt Taibbi Lambastes Romney’s Time At Bain—Here Are The Highlights! That Line In Romney’s Speech That People Are Outraged About Actually Gets At A Profound Reality… Here’s The Line Everyone Will Be Talking About From Mitt...

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It Turns Out The Kindle Fire Isn’t Sold Out After All (AMZN)

August 31, 2012
It Turns Out The Kindle Fire Isn’t Sold Out After All (AMZN)

Email More Amazon recently announced that the Kindle Fire was sold out, but Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman dug around and found out that this isn’t actually the case. Plenty of retail stores still have units to sell. See his report below:   Recommended For You Please follow SAI: Tools on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Dylan...

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BII REPORT: How In-App Commerce Drives App Store Success

August 31, 2012
BII REPORT: How In-App Commerce Drives App Store Success

The rise of “freemium” apps, mainly games, that generate money from in-app commerce is well established on Facebook. But it is also driving a huge amount of the revenue generated on Apple’s iPhone App Store. BI Intelligence has produced an analysis of App Store data, taking a look at the successful pricing, business, and monetization strategies of the highest...

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People Often Mistake ZocDoc’s Co-Founder For A Panhandler Because Of His Unusual Pastime

August 31, 2012
People Often Mistake ZocDoc’s Co-Founder For A Panhandler Because Of His Unusual Pastime

Nick Ganju is the cofounder of ZocDoc by day and a talented musician by night. We ran into one of ZocDoc’s founders, Nick Ganju, at a recent event. We asked him what he does when he’s not running an $700 million doctor appointment company. Ganju told us he’s a musician, and he often plays...

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How To Get The Most For Your Old IPhone

August 31, 2012

With Apple expected to release the iPhone 5. in September, fans are wondering what they can get for their current iPhones. Here’s a guide. Of course those with an iPhone 4S, which debuted last October, will reap far more for their devices than older versions, which will take the sting out of the penalty for breaking...

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Futurist’s Cheat Sheet: Internet of Things

August 31, 2012

Through the Internet, humans have connected the world. People are closer to each other than ever while still remaining apart. The next phase of the the Internet will be about connecting things. The Internet of Things will be central to the infrastructure that we build. (The “Futurist’s Cheatsheet” series surveys technologies on the horizon: their...

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Amazon Talks Up Android Appstore Growth Ahead Of New Kindle Fire Announcement

August 31, 2012
Amazon Talks Up Android Appstore Growth Ahead Of New Kindle Fire Announcement

And Amazon’s pre-announcement PR onslaught continues. While the recent Kindle Fire leak may have ruined Amazon’s big surprise, the online retail giant is still working to position itself as a hotspot for Android developers, and has just released some new stats about the growth of its Android Appstore to back up its claims. Amazon’s...

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