Blogging platform Tumblr is very popular. According to Comcore, it had almost 100 million worldwide visitors in December. What’s particularly impressive about that huge number is that Tumblr only has 145 employees. That means it has nearly 700,000 visitors per employee. That’s way more than Facebook, Google, or Yahoo. It’s an incredibly lean company....
Bill Nguyen, founder of Color and Lala See Also How Low Could Apple Go? Ex-Color Employee Files An Explosive Lawsuit That Trashes Founder Bill Nguyen Apple Is Only Spending A Few Million Dollars To Buy A Handful Of Color Employees Some employees of failed startup Color have it even worse than we initially believed....
AP Cisco just bought a small stake in Parallels, a small company best known for its software that runs Windows apps on a Mac. And that just complicated things for Microsoft, which has grown closer to Parallels as it seeks to grab more customers for Office 365, the cloud version of its popular productivity and...
Ever since the raid on Kim Dotcom’s house last year for allegedly harboring piracy through megaupload.com, the larger than life internet mogul hasn’t given up. He’s repetitively stated that this wouldn’t be the last we see of him and of Megaupload, and now he’s back, and Mega is better than ever. Mega launched this...
Uber has announced that it has lowered the rate structure for its black town cars in San Francisco. Also today, every Uber rider in the city will have access to UBERx, the company’s hybrid car service. In a post, the private car service said that in San Francisco it has the highest taxi fares...
The South by Southwest (SXSW) conference has announced that the Napster documentary “Downloaded” will be premiering this March during its Film Festival. The movie follows the rise and fall of the music sharing site,”the birth of the digital revolution”, and looks at the life of its two founders, Sean Parker and Sean Fanning while...
Guest author Mike McDerment is co-founder and CEO of cloud-based small business accounting provider FreshBooks. Late last year Google Apps for Business eliminated its free version (see Google Dares Businesses To Switch To Microsoft Office). You might think this is a bad thing for small business owners. Everything free is good, right? Wrong. There...
Guest author Sarah Rotman Epps is a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. One of the most delightful product features I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this month came from an unexpected source: the new BlackBerry 10 operating system from Research In Motion (RIM). While RIM is battling from behind...
In a long-awaited announcement, the Department of Health and Human Services this week said it made the “most sweeping” changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) since it was first passed in 1996. The previous HIPAA rules applied to healthcare providers, doctors and insurance companies. But under the new rules, their...
Two media veterans, Oprah Winfrey and Gawker Media’s Deadspin, had the chance to hit online advertising gold this week as record numbers of people came to their websites for tales of tarnished athletes. They came up short, however, and showed — again — how the ad industry is not ready for big moments on...