You’ve read the reports about the iPhone 5 contributing up to 0.5% in GDP growth. But this may be the flipside… On Friday, August retail sales were disappointingly weak, with “control” sales (excluding gas, auto, etc.) up just 0.1% vs. expectations of 0.4%. But even within “control” most of the numbers weren’t that bad....
Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil As a long-time contributor to TechCrunch, I again had the privilege of hanging out backstage and seeing the TechCrunch team put on what was, in my mind, the best Disrupt conference I’ve been to. In...
It’s a beautiful, quintisentially Silicon Valley sight: a throng of entrepreneurs and investors, paired off with notebooks and wine glasses under the umbrellas and palm trees of Stanford’s business school. The founders are pitching, and the investors asking questions as they do business on a breezy Friday afternoon in Palo Alto. It could be...
This week, the VHX website got a whole new look — instead of bringing users directly to its social video community, the home page now lays out VHX’s digital distribution services, first seen bringing Aziz Ansari and Indie Game: The Movie directly to consumers. This is no ordinary site redesign: This is VHX, distributor...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made good on plans to offer employees a free smartphone, after a leaked internal memo detailed the launch of the company’s new ‘Smart Phones, Smart Fun!’ initiative, providing them with a choice of devices, which include the iPhone 5 and Lumia 920, as long as it isn’t a BlackBerry....
You’ve gone through the Apple’s app review process and patiently waited (sometime very patiently) for a green light. Your new app is now live. You look at your server logs — no explosive growth. You look at your iTunes connect report the following day — no magical revenues. You scroll through the Apple App...
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New iPhone madness, social networking for authors, and why you should get on Goodreads. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web...
Microsoft’s reluctance to discuss its Surface tablets has seen a variety of different price points mooted, ranging from a super cheap $199 to a staggering $999. While the pricing existed purely as rumor and speculation, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer talked of what he calls the “sweet spot” for the Windows 8 tablets, finally providing...
Startup accelerators are popping up around the world at a rapid pace. Jed Christansen’s Seed-DB site links to over 120 but there are many more not listed there that service a wide range of geographies and industries. While opinions vary as to whether or not there are too many, or too few (funny how...