ELON MUSK: 'I Guess We Were Pretty Dumb To Agree To An Article By This Guy'...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is feuding with The New York Times.The publication ran a review of the company's Model S sedan that claimed the car's battery life didn't last the length of his trip from Washington...
View Article10 Months From Launch To Sale: Behind The Latest Ludicrously Fast Exit In...
Every few weeks, we hear about another fast exit in the insanely hot new software-defined networking market.Today, 10-month old LineRate Systems was acquired by F5 Networks.The companies didn't...
View ArticleAn Inside Look At How Etsy Grew Its Female Engineers By 500% In 1 Year
Etsy, the popular e-commerce site full of one-of-a-kind trinkets, handmade jewelry, and other personalized high-quality items, has risen to become a formidable competitor to eBay and other web-commerce...
View ArticleHow The Most Ambitious Auto Venture In A Century Nearly Collapsed And Then...
Tesla Motors will soon announce its fourth quarter financial results. The stock was down Monday after a negative review from The New York Times, which prompted CEO Elon Musk to take to Twitter and...
View ArticleDogVacay's Revenue Picture Looks ... Ruff
Keep your fingers crossed for DogVacay, an "Airbnb for dogs."The site got a lot of Silicon Valley buzz and raised $7 million from top-notch investors.Whether it can generate enough revenue to survive,...
View ArticleEverything We Know About The Ad Plan That's 'Plastered Over Every Single...
At the end of January, we told you that Twitter plans to launch its own Ads API— an "application protocol interface" that would allow advertisers to run ads on Twitter automatically, at will — sometime...
View ArticleApple Will Hold A TV Event In March, According To Jefferies (AAPL)
Most analysts are predicting a lull in new Apple products in the first half of the year, but Apple will likely hold an Apple TV-related event in March, according to Peter Misek of Jefferies.The event...
View ArticleMicrosoft's CFO Is Damning The Surface With Faint Praise (MSFT)
The big question for Microsoft: Does it go after Apple through a strategy of "vertical integration," creating its own hardware and software as it's doing with the Surface tablet?Or does it fall back to...
View ArticleHow Path Plans To Squeeze Dollars From Its 6 Million Users: Think HBO, Not NBC
Yesterday we heard Path CEO Dave Morin talk at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference.He mostly gave the familiar patter we've heard before about design and delight and intimacy—Path's...
View Article8 Years To Fall In Love And 18 Years Of Startup Madness: The Knot's Married...
When Carley Roney and David Liu met, they were undergraduates at New York University. But it took eight years for them to fall in love."While we didn't spend much time talking to each other, we...
View ArticleLeon Cooperman Sold All His Apple Stock And Bought A Bunch Of Facebook
Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, who runs Omega Advisors, just filed his 13F for the fourth-quarter ended 12/31/2012. Cooperman disclosed a new stake in Facebook. The hedge fund manager...
View ArticleThis Is By Far The Easiest Way To Fix Email Overload
E-mail overload is a huge problem. In fact, the average employee wastes the equivalent of 73 days a year on email, reports McKinsey Global Institute ,and others argue that email is actually bad for...
View ArticleSquare Is Avoiding Hiring Salespeople
Square is expanding at breakneck speed, doubling its workforce to 1,000 this year as it moves into a new headquarters.But CFO Sarah Friar says she wants nothing to do with hiring sales personnel."I'm...
View ArticleMobile Will Drive One-Third Of Paid Search Clicks By Year-End
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Mobile To...
View ArticleHere's Poland Spring's Official Facebook Response To Marco Rubio's Awkward...
Poland Spring got the biggest surprise product placement the water company could hope for when Sen. Marco Rubio awkwardly guzzled a mini bottle in the middle of his State of the Union response.Awkward...
View ArticleJeff Weiner Just Gave Every LinkedIn Employee An iPad Mini (LNKD)
Darain Faraz, a communications manager at LinkedIn in the UK, just tweeted that CEO Jeff Weiner just gave an iPad Mini to every one of LinkedIn's 3,500 employees.A spokesperson confirmed the gift:We...
View ArticleHow To Take A Screenshot On Your New Windows Phone (MSFT)
Microsoft introduced a long-overdue feature in its newest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8 – the ability to take screenshots.Check out the video to see how it's done. Please enable Javascript...
View ArticleOracle Is Keeping Its Lawsuit With Google Alive (ORCL, GOOG)
Remember last year, when Oracle sued Google for some $6 billion? It lost big when the jury found that the Android operating system didn't infringe on Oracle's patents.Oracle had also claimed copyright...
View ArticleYes, The Founder Of Hot Startup Rap Genius Really Did Just Say What You Think...
Rap Genius' co-founder Mahbod Moghadam isn't afraid to say what's on his mind.In an interview with tech newsletter Wakefield, Mahbod ripped Mark Zuckerberg and the New York Times with pretty vulgar...
View ArticleWho Will Win As Mobile Payments Go Mainstream?
Consumers gravitate to convenience. That's as true with payment technologies as it is with anything else. A prime example is the decades-old trend away from cash or checks and toward credit cards.Now,...
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