Facebook Inc. Katie Mitic and Ethan Beard are leaving Facebook. Ethan Beard, Facebook’s director of platform partnerships, and Katie Mitic, the company’s director of partnership marketing, are both leaving the company. As the dust from Facebook’s IPO settles and the company reorganizes its management ranks, it’s no surprise that some executives are leaving. But...
It’s easy to get myopic at a startup and become too focused on results and milestones instead of taking a step back and thinking about the big picture. ThredUP co-founder and CEO, James Reinhart wanted to give his team a chance to take that breather, so the company initiated mandatory “work from home Wednesdays.”...
Gus Claas’ Roomba almost got wrecked in an accident, but Claas gave it a second chance by turning it into a robot that can be remotely controlled via Google+ Hangouts. He extensively documented the inner workings of Oscar on his blog, where you can take a close look at the code that makes him...
Forget Mad Men reruns. The individual mixed dressage events are on tonight! As predicted by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings last week, interest in the London Olympic Games seems to be sapping away significant viewership on his streaming service. Also read: Netflix stock down 25 percent as investors lament return to red ink A study...
Ustream got immensely popular overnight when it live streamed Shiba-Inu puppies. Today we came across something almost as good. PetCollectiveTV is streaming a family of corgis live. Watch them yawn, crawl, eat, and sleep in real time. Go.
An app developer named Dalton Caldwell has written an acerbic open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The letter is about how Caldwell was called into Facebook to meet with a group of executives, and how these executives told Caldwell that his startup was competitve with a Facebook product, and that he should therefore...
Business Insider Yelp’s second-quarter earnings are out! It looks like a beat on the top and bottom lines. Yelp posted a $.03 loss per share, compared to analyst estimates of loss of $.06 per share. It also beat on revenue, reporting $32.7 million in revenue in the second quarter, compared to Wall Street analyst...
Microsoft said Wednesday that it has released Windows 8 to manufacturing, meaning that the world should get its first look at the final version of the company’s next generation operating system in about two weeks, when developers will be able to download the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. Microsoft also said that its Windows...
Rackspace has become the first vendor to deliver on the promise of true cloud-computing portability for businesses with Wednesday’s launch of the first commercial cloud service using OpenStack cloud technology. The news specifically announces that from this point forward, all new Rackspace Cloud customers using cloud services will have their cloud hosted on OpenStack...
Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks launched a new service on Wednesday that uses the cloud and software-as-a-service to give utility workers access to real time data, for monitoring grid systems and receiving alerts. You might think utility employees already have access to services like this — which are starting to dominate other industries...