Yahoo buys Tumblr to court younger crowd
But with Tumblr, Mayer is trying to add "coolness points" to a brand that "may have been viewed as the antithesis of cool," said Brian Solis, principal analyst at San Mateo's Altimeter Group and author of "What's the Future of Business. " "Like Instagram, Millennials are the life-force ...
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…My heart’s in Accra » Crowdfunding Checkbook Journalism: Gawker’s “Crackstarter” and its implicatio...
Nick Denton and the freewheeling opportunists at Gawker Media don’t spend much time worrying about these niceties. Gawker’s tech site Gizmodo paid $5000 for a prototype of a next-generation iPhone, which made some headlines as the site may have paid money for stolen goods. But the ...
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Retailers Turn 'Showrooming' Into Innovation Opportunity
" The Economist reporter Matthew Bishop recently noted how the success of online companies such as Warby Parker, which made a name for itself with its virtual eyeglass try-on features, is encouraging expansion beyond the web. Warby Parker recently opened its first brick-and-mortar ...
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Fleshbot Fiction Delivers High Quality Electronic Erotica
Lux Alptraum is a woman of many talents: writer, sex educator, and CEO. Her writings have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Hustler, and at SundanceChannel.com, among many others. She has spoken at notable institutions like Harvard, Brown, Yale, New York University, Columbia, and Ohio State ...
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The joy of Dropbox
Actually, I do remember how I used to choreograph file management on multiple computers before Dropbox (which was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston); I emailed stuff to myself, or dragged it on and off thumb drives. And way back in the day, I used floppy disks!. None of these ever as ...
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What the Future Looks Like Inside SRI: the Lab that Brought us Siri
Editor’s note: Robert Scoble, Startup Liaison Officer at Rackspace, is working on a book with Shel Israel about the how sensors, wearable computers, and other technologies will change our future, titled “Age of Context.” That got them invited to visit SRI International, Silicon Valley’s ...
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Lessons from Buffalo's entrepreneurs
Spitz quoted entrepreneurial legend Gary Vaynerchuk and said “A lot of people want to be the No. 1 guy, the CEO, but they might be better at being the second or third person in charge.” Don’t get stressed out writing a business plan. Sometimes it’s unnecessary. “Nowadays, people don’t ...
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Internet Week Puts Tech Start-Ups In the Spotlight » The Epoch Times
“Start-ups don’t really have a lot of opportunities to get exposure to agencies and brands,” said Caroline Waxler, Internet Week New York festival director. Waxler said she once worked in a position to evaluate startups, and it was often difficult without meeting people in person. ...
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What's in millennials' wallets? Fewer credit cards
“The recession made thrift cool,” said Micki Krimmel, the 35-year-old founder and chief executive of NeighborGoods, which has nearly 30,000 members of all ages. In Echo Park, twenty- and thirtysomethings flock to classes to craft chandeliers out of Mason jars or salvage old clothes with ...
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The $3B+ Exit Tumblr Could Have Had
There were signals of a possible revenue ramp miss in the first quarter of 2013 with the resignation of Rick Webb, who was brought on board just 10 months earlier to focus on revenue growth and work closely with Tumblr CEO David Karp. He is the latest in a string of senior executive ...
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Facebook, a year after the IPO
Also, Randi Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, had her private Facebook photo become public when a friend of one of her Facebook friends tagged the photo and posted it on Twitter. Despite its critics, Facebook has grown its revenue from $1.18 billion in quarter two of 2012, in its ...
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Waratahs beat the Brumbies
He’s building what he says is a world-first online gambling business, a field that entrepreneurial guru Don Dodge (think... Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald Is this man the next James Packer? If everything goes according to plan, Laurence Escalante will be Australia ’s next gambling ...
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What An Instagram Co-Founder Did After Becoming Superrich
On April 9, 2012, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold their 13-person startup, Instagram, to Facebook. Facebook purchased the photo filter app 18 months after its launch for $1 billion: $300 million in cash, the rest in Facebook stock. What has the year been like for Systrom since ...
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Roll Over, Beethoven: Three Management Lessons From The World’s Most Disrupted Industry
Brian Zisk, founder of the semi-annual SF MusicTech Summit, has made it his mission to help bring cosmos from out of the chaos of the music world. The MusicTech summit, which convenes on May 28 for the 13th time, reflects his view that the art of music is now inextricably a part of a ...
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Go behind the scenes of Big Omaha with Slobotski, Malone and more
Quadrant5's Christopher New anchored the show and Silicon Prairie News' Geoff Wood and Jeff Slobotski each co-hosted a day. Guests included Dr. Jim and Karen Linder, members of KANEKO 's board of directors, Mike Malone, owner of Malone & Company (our photo and video partner) and speaker ...
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Andrew Mason moves to S.F, joins Y Combinator, sings about business
Y Combinator founder and partner Paul Graham also blogged about Mason joining his operation along with four other new part-time partners, including Socialcam founder Michael Seibel and Hipmunk and Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, both Y combinator graduates; and Dalton Caldwell...
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Origin Stories: Victor Agreda, Jr.
Eventually, the company then known as Weblogs, Inc. decided to launch a software blog, so Jason Calacanis asked David Chartier and I, along with Jordan Running and Marc Perton, to write for the new site. I learned a lot from or first lead, Marc, who went on to work at Consumer Reports ...
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A Series of Overrated Scandals
By Jacob Weisberg, Slate - May 17, 2013 Washington’s need for periodic scandal is almost biological. For legislators, it’s an opportunity to strut on the national stage. For the party out of power, it is politics by other means. For the press, it’s an escape from the boredom and ...
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#nofilter Conversation with Instagram Founders
Hear Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, co-founders of Instagram, for a conversation with #nofilter with Kevin Rose, partner at Google Ventures, at the Castro Theatre. From the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Sandy to your Sunday eggs Benedict in the Mission, Instagram is documenting the ...
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EA engineer speaks about Wii U: 'Wii U is crap, less powerful than Xbox 360'
In a very blunt, honest response to an article Scott Hanselman (Microsoft employee) tweeted out regarding the situation between EA and Nintendo, Bob Summerwill responded with this: "The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Nintendo are walking dead at this ...
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Rent the Runway's Jennifer Hyman Talks the Rising Cost of Prom
Jennifer Hyman, company co-founder and CEO, told us over email that she has first-hand experience, "I think I spent an entire year convincing my mom to buy me a white Carmen Marc Valvo dress for prom. So while I definitely could have done worse, I really wish I had had Rent the Runway as ...
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Friday tech newsloaf: LivingSocial's guns, Grotech's funds
LivingSocial spokesman Andrew Weinstein said CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy looked for ways to keep Cole on board, but "she'd been commuting from the West Coast for years and decided that it made more sense to be closer to her family out there. " • Some of the more early stage players won ...
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Bono Impersonator Shows Up At SAP's Conference, Fools Crowd And Sparks Momentary Chaos
Bono is also one of the angel investors in Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's new startup, Jelly, which received a Series A round this week. We've reached out to SAP to see if they were behind this. But i n a blog post earlier this week, SAP acknowledged that the Bono impersonator may ...
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Lean UX: An Interview with Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
This month, we're reading Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience , written by Jeff Gothelf and ex-Cooperista Josh Seiden. Inspired by Eric Ries's The Lean Startup , Lean UX takes aim at waterfall design and development processes and outlines a set of ways that UX ...
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Mediatwits #80: Feds Spy on AP, Bloomberg Spies on Feds; Future for Broadcast TV, Radio?
Our special guest Brian Stelter of the New York Times will talk about how broadcast TV networks are struggling against cable, streaming competition and even upstart Aereo. And second special guest Joshua Johnson, a newscaster at San Francisco public radio station KQED, will rebut a ...
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