Tumblr Names 12 Ad Agencies To Its Creative 'A-List'
Tumblr, the five-year-old social blogging platform that now hosts 80 million blogs, announced the launch of its "A-List Partnership Program" earlier this morning.The 12 creative agencies on the list...
View ArticleEx-Microsoft Employee: Sinofsky Was 'Tearing The Company Apart From The...
Microsoft's decision to part ways with Steven Sinofsky was surprising, but it wasn't sudden.Former Microsoft employee Hal Berenson says on his blog that he heard months ago Sinofsky was going to leave...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Its Own Version Of AirPlay For YouTube Videos And Google TV...
Google launched an update to Google TV today that lets you use your Android smartphone or tablet to beam YouTube videos to your television over your home's Wi-Fi connection. You'll need to update the...
View ArticleAirbnb Announces Neighborhoods, A Local Guide (YELP, GOOG)
Airbnb has gathered a bunch of tech reporters to Dogpatch Studios, an arts space in a postindustrial part of San Francisco, to unveil a new product: Airbnb Neighborhoods."We have a challenge," says...
View ArticleSome Good News From Nokia If You Hate Apple Maps On Your iPhone
Nokia announced today that it plans to release its mapping application on iPhones and Android phones in the coming weeks.We previously profiled Nokia Maps as a very viable alternative to Google Maps...
View ArticleHere's Microsoft's New Head Of Windows Engineering Talking About Windows 8...
Windows 8 has been controversial in every way for Microsoft, from its radical new design to the Surface PCs that compete with Microsoft's long-time partners.With that as a background, listen to this...
View ArticleAirbnb Appears To Be Getting Into The Massive Local-Advertising Fight With...
We think Airbnb is laying the groundwork for a big push into helping local businesses market themselves.Airbnb is creating guidebooks to neighborhoods for people who book lodging with its service, and...
View Article4 Investors Share What Makes Them Open Up Their Wallets For Startups
Investors take a big financial risk each time they invest in a startup, so they're pretty careful about who they back. You may have the best product in the world, but it's no guarantee that investors...
View ArticleHoly Smokes! Google's Nexus 4 Smartphone Sold Out In Less Than An Hour (GOOG)
Google's newest smartphone, the Nexus 4 from LG, sold out within its first hour in the U.S.The unlocked phone was only available through Google's online Play store, but T-Mobile is selling at a...
View ArticleWhat It's Like Using An Electric Bike To Get Around New York
I was curious about electric bikes, so I emailed Boris Mordkovich, director of EVELO. He set me up with an EVELO Aurora, one of the company's electric bicycles.An electric bike is like a conventional...
View ArticleAnd Now We're At The Point Where Startups Are Running Out Of Cash
Over the past few years, a lot of people have started companies. Between 2007 and 2011, more than 200 digital startups were created in New York alone.The companies have been able to survive because...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Has The Desktop Finally Met Its Match?
Mobile Insights is a new 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.The End...
View ArticleAt Last, Microsoft's New Products Are Helping Its Troubled Partnership With...
The tech industry has been riveted by a question about Microsoft's bold moves into providing cloud software and making its own hardware: Can it keep PC partners like Hewlett-Packard and Dell happy and...
View ArticleMarc Benioff: Microsoft's Surface Tablet Is 'Horrible' (MSFT, CRM)
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is taking Steven Sinofsky's departure as an opportunity to trash Microsoft's attempt at an iPad-killer, the Surface.To understand Sinofsky's departure just use a...
View ArticleMichael Dell: We Do $8 Billion A Year Selling Services To Big Businesses (DELL)
Micheal Dell wants you to know that the real money for his company has nothing to do with PCs or Windows 8. It's about selling data center software, hardware, and services to enterprises.But not...
View ArticleCisco Beats Estimates On Sales And Earnings
Cisco earnings are out. The company reported earnings of $0.48 per share, ahead of estimates of $0.46.Click here for updates >Sales came in at $11.88 billion, also beating estimates of $11.77...
View ArticleZynga's CFO Has Bolted For A Job At Facebook (ZNGA, FB)
Zynga CFO Dave Wehner, a former investment banker who joined the company in 2010, has left for a "senior finance job at Facebook," according to a company press release announcing a broad...
View ArticleNow David Ko Is Essentially Running Zynga (ZNGA)
Zynga has reorganized yet again!David Ko, an executive who has championed Zynga's push into mobile and transformation of its Facebook-oriented franchises like FarmVille and Mafia Wars into...
View ArticleRepublicans Have An Enormous Tech Disadvantage, And It Could Still Kill Them...
The Republican Party's losses in last week's election have brought about a moment of reckoning for conservatives, as GOP leaders, grassroots activists, and political strategists try to make sense of...
View ArticleHere's The Casting Call Randi Zuckerberg Sent Out Looking For New Yorkers In...
Bravo's "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley" has only aired two lackluster episodes, but Executive Producer Randi Zuckerberg is already looking to cast another like-minded show in New York City.Zuckerberg told...
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