Adam Mosseri / Facebook Facebook’s Adam Mosseri See Also This Neuroscientist Worries That Facebook Home Will Change Our Brains Everyone Should Copy Facebook’s New Texting Feature On Android Bloomberg Terminals Now Include Twitter Feeds Adam Mosseri, Facebook‘s director of product, gave a great, in depth QA to CNET on Facebook Home, the new app...
Here’s a look at Nokia‘s next major Windows Phone, the Lumia 928. The leaked image comes from Twitter user @evleaks, who routinely (and accurately!) posts leaked smartphone images to his account. The Lumia 928 will run Microsoft‘s Windows Phone 8 operating system and be available exclusively on Verizon in the US. The phone was...
Youtube/WeThinkForOurselves See Also Justin Bieber Pranks TMZ By Posting Their Phone Number Why Facebook, Twitter And Instagram Put Up Roadblocks To Each Others’ Content ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Director Makes Fun Of Himself On-Set There are about 20 million fake users on Twitter, The New York Times says. Twitter has a total of more than 500...
Facebook has come a long way in its quest to be a mobile force to be reckoned with — but it’s still not there. On Thursday, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg told press and the world that his company had become a ‘mobile first, mobile best’ company with the release of its Android launcher software...
My daily work consists of connecting innovative A round startups with potential investors or strategic partners. One thing I repeatedly see are on the one hand, talented entrepreneurs frustrated by the failed attempts of securing funding for their startups and on the other hand, investors often shaking their heads that entrepreneurs haven’t fully explained...
GitHub, a popular software development service, announced on Friday that it migrated all developer Pages hosted on its servers to a new domain because of security concerns it had regarding malicious websites. In essence, the company felt that users who came to github.com would feel that Pages hosted on there were automatically secure since...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has invested in Henry Blodget’s website Business Insider, according to a report first published by Bloomberg and then confirmed with an internal memo at Business Insider. Bezos led a $5 million series E round that also included participation from RRE Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners. The new investment brings the...
The European Union cleared the merger of publishers Random House and Penguin on Friday, saying it does not pose a risk to competition. The EU said the merger doesn’t threaten competition. In a press release, the European Commission said of its investigation: “The Commission assessed the impact of the transaction on the upstream markets...
According to several sources, electric car maker Fisker Automotive is planning to lay off many of its employees today. Sources tell me that there is a company meeting at 8AM today where the company will announce this to the employees. Updated at 8:30AM: I’ve heard that 160 Fisker employees were let go this morning,...
Editor’s note: Patricia Nakache is a general partner at Trinity Ventures where she invests in early stage social commerce and entertainment companies. Follow her on Twitter @pnakache. The prevailing wisdom among entrepreneurs these days is that they should initially fund their startups with a $1-2 million convertible note. The logic is that raising a convertible note, even...