AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelley AppNexus SVP of product management Ari Paparo is out and two other senior executives appear close to leaving the NewYork-based ad-technology company. One is VP of sales Lauren Nemeth. A source close to AppNexus tells us she plays a “huge role” at the company. But we’ve learned that she is actively...
Color Color CEO Bill Nguyen hasn’t been around in months. See Also Color Denies Report That It’s Being Shut Down* We Just Got This Insane Picture Of Color CEO Bill Nguyen Remember Color? It’s Taking Another Shot With A Big Verizon Partnership Today, a report about the possible shutdown of Color, a photo-sharing startup...
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Google today released a new Native Client debugger and a new Native Client add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. The former is included in the Native Client SDK that you can download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The latter also requires the SDK, and you’ll have to run the “naclsdk update vs_addin” update command to...
In an interview with WSJ’s Amir Efrati, Google Ventures Managing Partner Bill Maris, has revealed a number of details regarding how the search giant’s venture fund is run, in addition to what he’s done and where he sees the fund going. Of the interesting details, Maris shared the types of ideas he is most interested in backing: …ideas that...
This past weekend TNW brought you notes on Terry Kramer, a United States Ambassador, whose views on the Internet are by and large correct. We called him the rare civil servant worthy of praise. He matters at the moment as he is the head of the United States’ delegation to the coming shindig in Dubai...
When the Web was still text links and tables, Adobe Flash brought us rollovers, interactive games and kitten videos. But a hard stand by Apple was the begining of the end for the groundbreaking technology, and guess what? We’ll be OK without it. The Backstory The early years of the Web were pretty barren,...
Do you have a burning scientific question that can be answered only by putting a satellite into orbit? You’re in luck. It’s now feasible to do just that, using only off-the-shelf technology, in a design called a CubeSat. It’ll run you around $50,000. For university, commercial or government projects, this new price point is...
The first modern smartphone is generally considered to have been the Nokia Communicator, released in 1996. It was large and clunky, had a flip keyboard and a awkward antenna. Boy, how things have changed. Multiple companies now churn out increasingly amazing models with incredibly slick designs, intuitive features and hundreds of thousands of fun...
A photo agency is demanding $1.3 million from BuzzFeed after the viral news site published photos of singer Katy Perry and actress Kathy Griffin. The case comes at a time when online media is increasingly image-based, and raises questions about whether current copyright law is still working. Credit: Marvix Photo First, the facts. Florida-based...