For the longest time Apple set comically low guidance for earnings, then totally destroyed that guidance. Last quarter, that went out the window. It just barely beat its own guidance. Tomorrow, the company reports earnings and we’ll be watching closely to see if Apple can return to its days of blowing out guidance. Based...
One of the first computers Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs built together is heading to auction, priced at about $90,000. This is the famed Apple 1. Not only was it built by Woz’s own hands in in 1976, but it was the company’s first production computer. Jobs and Woz built and sold about 200...
TechCrunch What does $GOOG’s driverless car and marketing have in common? Bored vs. Tired The Missing Word in Big Data Note: This is a guest post from Darren Herman, chief digital media officer of The Media Kitchen and managing partner, KBS+ Ventures. Herman is an early investor in Yieldbot and Crowdtwist through KBS+ Ventures....
There’s been plenty of discontent surrounding PayPal lately, especially among developers, and that’s one reason why developer-focused payments startup Stripe has gained ground so quickly. Yes, developers have been joining Stripe in droves, but since the young service isn’t geared towards the average, code-shy user, non-devs have been completely left out. This is where Space Box comes...
Facebook expects the mobile device to be the secret to its growth in the foreseeable future. In its 10-Q filing today, the social network said that it anticipates that the rate of growth in mobile usage will “exceed the growth in usage through personal computers for the foreseeable future”. This follows exactly what its...
Brazilian online learning startup Veduca has raised around $740,000 USD in a financing round led by Mountain do Brasil. 500 Startups also participated in the round, and an unnamed multinational company will soon announce an additional investment. As you may know, Mountain do Brasil is the new Brazilian subsidiary of Swiss investment firm Mountain Partners. With offices in São Paulo,...
Measuring social influence online is becoming a more sophisticatd, refined and granular process. While the much-maligned early leader in the market, Klout, has scooped up a lot of headlines over the past few years, there’s a better approach. And it doesn’t involve a humble-brag-centered public score. One of the best reputation-measurement tools that I use is Topsy....
What’s the old rule? The bigger a company gets, the slower it moves? Not so in Apple’s case, at least not this year. After a mostly-sleepy 2011, Apple has delivered a huge set of new product launches this year, in unprecedented pace. These are… All-new iPad mini iPad third and fourth generation with significant...
Zynga’s logo walked into the boardroom with its tail between its legs today as the company presented its third quarter earnings. On the call, CEO Mark Pincus announced the company’s plan to wrap a tight tourniquet around its ongoing losses. How to turn things around? Pincus said development teams would cut costs even further, ramp...
While we’ve been covering Ambri, formerly called Liquid Metal Battery, very closely, The Colbert Report introduced the battery startup to the world this week. In this video Stephen Colbert interviews Ambri founder and MIT Professor Donald Sadoway and the two discuss the power grid, batteries, electric cars and oil independence. Ambri has raised money...