Founders Den isn’t an incubator, and it isn’t an accelerator. But it held a demo day Tuesday night in San Francisco for some of the group’s handpicked startups to pitch their products to investors, which is as much a classic incubator experience as any. The group, which is a co-working space in San Francisco that...
Daily Archives: September 18, 2012
Don’t call it an incubator: 3 startups to watch from Founders Den
Founders Den isn’t an incubator, and it isn’t an accelerator. But it held a demo day Tuesday night in San Francisco for some of the group’s handpicked startups to pitch their products to investors, which is as much a classic incubator experience as any. The group, which is a co-working space in San Francisco that...
Here’s What The Critics Say About Apple’s New Maps Application (AAPL)
AP See Also Everyone Is Freaked Out By How Light The iPhone 5 Is The iPhone 5 Reviews Are The Most Positive We’ve Ever Seen For A Smartphone MOSSBERG: The iPhone 5 Is The Best Smartphone On The Market Apple’s new Maps application is not as big a disaster as we feared. In case...
Here’s What The Critics Say About Apple’s New Maps Application (AAPL)
AP See Also Everyone Is Freaked Out By How Light The iPhone 5 Is The iPhone 5 Reviews Are The Most Positive We’ve Ever Seen For A Smartphone MOSSBERG: The iPhone 5 Is The Best Smartphone On The Market Apple’s new Maps application is not as big a disaster as we feared. In case...
Pocket rolls out support for the iPhone 5 and iOS 6
We’re deep in iPhone 5 week right now, in case you somehow missed the pre-launch news, and Pocket (formerly known as Read It Later) has rolled out a new version of its social bookmarking app that is optimised for the new Apple smartphone’s larger 4-inch screen and its upcoming iOS 6 platform. Pocket 4.2,...
Everyone Is Freaked Out By How Light The iPhone 5 Is (AAPL)
Email More AP See Also The iPhone 5 Reviews Are The Most Positive We’ve Ever Seen For A Smartphone POGUE: The iPhone 5 ‘Is Beautiful’ And ‘Startlingly’ Thin, But I Have One Complaint MOSSBERG: The iPhone 5 Is The Best Smartphone On The Market Seriously… “The minute you pick the iPhone 5 up you...
Blackstone Throws Down Just Over $2 Billion To Acquire Home Automation Giant Vivint
News broke tonight that The Blackstone Group, which operates the second largest equity fund businesses in the world, has agreed to acquire home automation giant, Vivint, in a deal that’s worth just over $2 billion. Blackstone will be purchasing Vivint from Goldman Sachs, Jupiter Partners and Peterson Partners, the company’s current sponsors. The deal,...
The iPhone 5 Reviews Are The Most Positive We’ve Ever Seen For A Smartphone (AAPL)
AP See Also POGUE: The iPhone 5 ‘Is Beautiful’ And ‘Startlingly’ Thin, But I Have One Complaint MOSSBERG: The iPhone 5 Is The Best Smartphone On The Market Apple’s Maps Are A Disaster Waiting To Happen People who had their hands on an iPhone 5 for the last week are publishing their reviews tonight...
POGUE: The iPhone 5 ‘Is Beautiful’ And ‘Startlingly’ Thin, But I Have One Complaint (AAPL)
AP New York Times gadget guru David Pogue loves the iPhone 5 but has one rather tiny quibble. He doesn’t like that Apple changed the connector cable for the iPhone. He thinks that’s annoying. Other than that, he thinks the phone is fantastic. Here are the highlights from his review: “The new phone, in...
With iPhone 5, Apple Has Chiseled The Smartphone To Near Perfection
You pick it up and it almost feels fake. That’s not to say it feels cheap; because it doesn’t — quite the opposite, actually. It just doesn’t seem real. Certainly not to someone who has been holding the iPhone 4/4S for the past two years. It feels like someone took one of those devices...