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An Investor Who Backed eBay Says Now Is A Great Time To Do Consumer Internet...
Dan Levitan, the cofounder of venture-capital firm Maveron, backed eBay a decade and a half ago.He says it's still a good time to invest in consumer startups, despite a vogue in the industry for...
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DIGITIMES: Apple IS Working On A TV, And It Could Be Ready By Year End (AAPL)
Apple is still working on a TV, and it could be ready by the end of this year, though it's more likely to come at the start of 2014, say DigiTimes reporters Julian Ho and Alex Wolfgram.According to...
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Yahoo's 17-Year-Old Millionaire Goes To This High School
Seventeen year old Nick D'Aloisio has become the talk of the tech industry since he sold his startup Summly to Yahoo for a reported $30 million. In the next few weeks, D'Aloisio will start working at...
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At This Startup, The CEO Lets All Employees Read Confidential Emails
Payments startup Stripe has a pretty innovative policy when it comes transparency. Any employee can read almost every email sent within the company. What that means is that every email is internally...
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Watch These Coders Build A Social Media Future That Doesn't Depend On Google,...
Earlier this month, App.net, a social service supported by donations and subscriptions instead of advertising, held a hackathon in San Francisco.Business Insider was on the scene to see what the coders...
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Amazon Now Lets You Look Up IMDB Information While Watching A TV Show On Your...
Amazon announced today that its X-Ray feature for movies on Kindle Fire devices will now work with several popular TV shows. X-Ray is a neat feature first introduced on the Kindle Fire HD last year...
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New T-Mobile Campaign Ditches Carly Foulkes, The Company's Beloved 'Girl In...
On paper, it's a compelling concept: Carly Foulkes, T-Mobile's longtime girl in pink, pitching the new iPhone 5 as part of the company's big new campaign.But Foulkes doesn't appear in two new T-Mobile...
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Well, This VC's Tweet Is The Best Piece Of Bragging You're Going To See All Day
In this tweet, Greylock partner David Sze does some much-deserved bragging on behalf of his firm:Only 3 tech companies created in last decade worth $10B+. @greylockvc early investor in all 3....
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Google Is Run By Adolescents, Says Internet Critic Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov, the author and critic battling 'the internet' itself, talks to Christopher Williams.As an author known for his viciously mocking criticism of web culture, Evgeny Morozov recently found...
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BII REPORT: How Mobile Is Shaking Up The Retail Industry
The practice of “showrooming,” or viewing an item in a retail store and then buying it online, has brought the e-commerce threat directly to bricks-and-mortar retailers. Mobile raises the showrooming...
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Hashtags Have Gone Mainstream
Social Media Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that collects and delivers the top social media news first thing every morning. You can sign up to receive Social Media Insightshere or...
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This Is The Future Of Gaming
Earlier this month, the Bafta video game awards seemed to show an industry in rude health, with innovative indie titles sharing the honours with interesting mainstream success stories like Dishonored...
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It's Actually Disturbing How Often We Check Our Smartphones (FB)
It's official: We're addicted to our smartphones. A new IDC study, sponsored by Facebook, revealed some statistics on how often we use our smartphones and what we do with them. We first saw the news on...
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Major VC Declares That Bitcoin Represents The 3rd Great Era Of Currency
Chris Dixon is a well-known VC who recently joined Andreesen Horowitz.A recent post on his Tumblr shows the extent to which the Bitcoin phenomenon is capturing the minds of the technorati.We'll avoid...
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Twitter's Ad Revenue Is Getting Close To The Billion Dollar Mark [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:According to projections by eMarketer, Twitter's global ad revenue is going to hit $950 million by 2014. It's currently at $582.8 million, so...
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Here's Bloomberg Businessweek's Cover About How Samsung Became The King Of...
Bloomberg Businessweek's cover story this week is all about the rise of Samsung. Here's a sneak peek at the cover art:SEE ALSO: First photos of Samsung's Galaxy S4 >Please follow SAI on Twitter and...
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The Woman Who Made Wikipedia Huge Is Stepping Down
The driving force behind the Wikimedia Foundation, Sue Gardner, is stepping down, Amy Chozik of The New York Times reports. Gardner is the executive director at the Wikimedia Foundation, the...
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HTML5 vs. Apps: Where The Debate Stands Now, And Why It Matters
An HTML5 app is housed on the Web and runs inside a mobile browser. Unlike apps built specifically for Apple devices or Google's Android operating system, it does not need to be built from scratch for...
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Apple Cuts iPad Mini Orders For Q2, Says DigiTimes (AAPL)
Apple cut its iPad Mini orders for the second quarter of this year, Julian Ho and Alex Wolfgram at DigiTimes report, citing "multiple sources" who supply components for the iPad Mini.They report Apple...
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There's Already A Plan To Fix Your Smartphone's Terrible Battery Life
It doesn't matter if you choose Android or iPhone. BlackBerry or Windows Phone. Your smartphone's battery stinks. As phone technology gets develops with faster processors and high-speed wireless data...
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