Flickr/dfarber YouSendIt CEO Brad Garlinghouse See Also YouSendIt CEO Brad Garlinghouse Just Gave Every Employee An iPad Mini Former AOL Exec Describes The Most Embarrassing Moment In His AOL Career Brad Garlinghouse Is Quitting AOL The outspoken CEO of YouSendIt, Brad Garlinghouse, just put his Menlo Park house on the market. He’s asking $3.45...
Bloomberg TV Last week after the Cyprus story first exploded, we pointed out that Twitter proved to be a far more useful source of serious analysis on the topic than Wall Street, which was fairly slow in producing research on the subject. This was partially due to the fact that it was a weekend...
Wikimedia March 24 (Reuters) – A special committee of Dell Inc’s board is evaluating separate takeover proposals from Blackstone Group and billionaire investor Carl Icahn to decide whether either or both are likely to trump an existing $24.4 billion take-private deal, a source familiar with the discussions said on Sunday. Icahn and Blackstone put...
Following rumors that T-Mobile would soon “kiss contracts goodbye” as part of its “Un-Carrier” strategy, the company has revealed new plans which eliminate “two-year contracts altogether,” reports The Verge and TmoNews. With these new plans, T-Mobile claims to offer unlimited text, talk and Web, starting at $50 per month. Unfortunately, these plans actually range from $50 to...
If you were at SXSW earlier this month, you probably noticed the presence of a large group of young and passionate Mexican techies. What you may not know is that they spent the three previous day hacking while traveling by bus. In 2012, we already reported on the first edition of StartupBus Mexico, which was the only...
Government-supported program Start-Up Brasil is now entering the second phase of its roll-out, with the imminent opening of its call for applications to Brazilian and foreign startups, its promoters announced this week at Rio de Janeiro’s Global Entreneurship Congress. The IT Policy Secretary for Brazil’s Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (MCTI) Virgilio de Almeida confirmed during the event that...
Unsurprisingly, big data was on everyone’s minds this week, as we kicked off our conference season with Structure:Data in New York City. The two-day show had plenty of highlights – check out GigaOM’s complete coverage here. But one of the most buzzworthy talks of the day was from Ira “Gus” Hunt, the CTO of...
If you’re one to track the Q rating of tech trends, then you know the cloud is so last minute and big data is good for little more than wrapping fish at Whole Foods. For 2013, it’s all about the Internet of Things. Cisco, a company that stands to make a lot of money...
While some traditional journalists may not like the term, we’ve seen a growing number of examples of “citizen journalism” emerge that make it obvious how powerful that phenomenon has become — from the Pakistani programmer who live-tweeted the Osama bin Laden raid and the network of Twitter followers Andy Carvin of NPR used as...
Two years ago, Google’s Vic Gundotra keynoted the company’s 2011 I/O developer conference, and one of the big surprises of the day was the launch of Android@Home, Google’s attempt to corner the home-automation market. At the keynote, Google also showed the first prototype of what would later become the Nexus Q “social streaming media...