Still on the fence about whether or not you should get an iPhone 5? While most people would say “yes” to everything Apple and hail the iPhone 5 as the king of smartphones (including us!), we’re gonna play devil’s advocate and find reasons against buying a new iPhone 5. We already showed you how...
Daily Archives: November 19, 2012
A Q&A With New Andreessen Horowitz Partner Chris Dixon (EBAY)
See Also One Of New York’s Best Investors, Chris Dixon, Is Moving To Silicon Valley Here’s The Real Reason Andreessen Horowitz Is Dumping Facebook Shares Zulily Joins The Billion-Dollar Club Top Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired Chris Dixon to be its seventh investing partner. Dixon has been one of New...
Samsung Pulls Its Puppy Abuse Ad
Samsung finally got a message that seems pretty obvious: It’s not funny to depict people beating puppies. If you make an ad that depicts people mercilessly beating puppies (even if they’re really computers with drawn-on puppy-like features) everyone will hate it. Face. Palm. Samsung posted an official spot for a solid state storage drive...
Hedge fund Tiger Global picks up 9.9% of Groupon, sending its stock up in after-hours trading
Today it was disclosed that Tiger Global, a New York-based hedge fund, has acquired a 9.9% stake in the troubled daily deals giant Groupon. The company’s value has dwindled to a mere $2 billion, down sharply from its IPO price, and the earlier offer from Google that it spurned. The company was up 4.19% on the day,...
iTunes-like Disney Movies Online service shuttered because there weren’t enough users
Disney has shut down its Disney Movies Online service that streamed movies for purchase and rental, reports Deadline. The service allowed users to rent or purchase movies on its site and watch those via streaming. The site’s source says that the service didn’t generate the number of users it was supposed to and cost a bundle...
Steven Sinofsky refused to build tablet support for Windows 7, frustrating Ballmer
According to a report in ExtremeTech, internal tension leading to the exit of Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft was long in its building. No story involving this many actors, products, and decades, is simple. However, one specific instance that is listed in the ExtremeTech post is key in the eyes of TNW: Ballmer had been...
Intel CEO Otellini To Retire Amidst A Marketplace In Flux
After more than 40 years of working with the same company, Intel CEO Paul Otellini is set to retire in May 2013. He will leave behind a market leader struggling to adapt to an increasingly mobile world, a diverse ARM-processor ecosystem and a main flagship product of Windows 8. Put in that context, Otellini’s...
How To Solve The Racist-Teens-On-Twitter Problem
If the social media shaming of racist teens over the past few weeks has revealed anything conclusive, it’s this: There’s a large amount of hate speech floating around on Twitter. One reason could be that Twitter actually doesn’t have a hate speech clause in its Terms of Service. Twitter lists the following No-Nos on...
Microsoft Aims Dubai Launch Of Windows 8 At Businesses
As Microsoft rolled out Windows 8 in Dubai, the Middle East’s commerce hub, the company focused on showing corporations how to use the new operating system to create their own line-of-business applications. Key examples inlcuded an in-flight customer management application used by Emirates Airlines, as well as an education initiative that will be broadly...
Branch rolls out Groups to organize conversation parties
Branch, a recently launched conversation startup funded by two Twitter founders, is now introducing a new feature called Groups that allows a set of people to establish a little community for discussions. Instead of inviting individuals into Branches over and over again, a host can set up a group that can conduct future conversations or...