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“Dell.com See Also Dell Could Go Private By Monday At This Very Moment, Microsoft And Dell Are Finalizing A $2 Billion Deal The Biggest Websites In The United States A $24 billion deal to take computer maker Dell private faces one last hurdle: The company’s board is voting on the offer tonight, Bloomberg reports....
As the Senior Director of Design Web Development at LinkedIn, Steve Johnson is directly instrumental in LinkedIn’s huge $13.25 billion market cap and user base of 200 million. He recently shared the following deck on how LinkedIn’s culture played into this killer growth. Why not take a look and see if these strategies can...
The well-worn cliché among social networking Luddites is that Twitter and the likes are nothing more than tools for dullards wishing to share what they had for breakfast. Whether you agree with that assertion or not, there’s certainly no denying that people do indeed love sharing words and pictures of their food with one...
Hailo has scooped a whopping $30.6m Series B funding round led by Union Square Ventures (USV), with participation from a slew of high-profile investors including Richard Branson and Japanese telco KDDI. USV has a strong track record in big-name tech investments, and was among the first institutional investors in Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr. Today’s...
Growing up can be tough, and it’s unfortunately all too easy to lose sight of your dreams. If you need a dose of inspiration and a trip down nostalgia lane, watch this “When I Grow Up” short film from The Academy. When I Grow Up from The Academy. Creator Colin Hesterly calls it a “small look...
The fitness-tracking incumbents might want to pay attention to Salt Lake City-based Amiigo. The personal fitness startup’s eponymous device isn’t yet available, but it has generated a lot of buzz and money (almost $300,000 on Indiegogo and an undisclosed amount of venture capital), and it promises to make the Fitbit (see disclosure), Jawbone Up and every...
I won’t ask you if you missed the Super Bowl last night. But did you miss Twitter? Good luck re-living that today. With every major event we now experience as a country, whether it’s the Super Bowl or the presidential inauguration, it becomes more evident that the conversation on social media is as tied...
Bookish, which is backed by big-six publishers Hachette, Penguin and Simon Schuster and intended to promote book discovery and sell books, was supposed to launch in the summer of 2011. Nearly two years and three CEOs later, the site is finally scheduled to make its debut Monday night. With a book recommendation algorithm, original...
The fertile enterprise startup field has created a space for customers seeking peer analysis of vendor offerings. VendorStack hopes to fill that space with a new service that Co-Founder David Cheng calls a Yelp plus Quora. Like Yelp, VendorStack lets users rate and review vendors. And similar to Quora, the VendorStack community can ask and...