ReadWriteWeb:
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids."Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the chal (Read More)
Engadget:
We're still waiting for this so-called QR code revolution to hit North America, but our contemporaries across the Pacific are already looking to develop the next big thing. Reportedly, a smattering of mega-corps (including the likes of Toshiba and NEC) are joining hands in order to concoct a rivaling technology that require (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Online photo service Pixable, which lets you print albums from your Facebook content, is launching its Calendar Creator feature today. The new feature will let you print out calendars to remember important dates from your information stored on Facebook, which is where many of us now have all of our photos (Facebook claims m (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
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Techmeme:
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Offensive Michelle Obama Image Returns, Google Buys Ad To Explain — Google is buying ads to explain why an offensive image of the First Lady is back in its index and ranking so highly on searches for Michelle Obama in Google Image Search. — As we reported last week … . (Read More)
Mashable!:
YouTube and the web have provided a new and powerful medium for video and TV commercials. The great ones can go viral, resulting in millions upon millions of views. MSI’s Acrobuttocks commercial, Microsoft’s MEGAWOOSH and Windows 7 ads, and Evian’s Roller Babies immediately come to mind.Out of the thousands of commercials (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, the latest stop on a tal (Read More)
CNN:
Lars G. Josefsson showed up at the UN General Assembly in New York City in September with a petition signed by 244,500 people that called for action on climate change, including the fixing of a global price for carbon emissions. (Read More)
paidContent.org:
After we first reported last night about Playboy’s mag outsourcing deal with American Media Inc (but we got it mixed up with the sale talks, which are still ongoing), the company has released some official details of the deal: AMI will take over production, circulation, ad sal (Read More)
Mashable!:
Remember Joost? There was a time when the peer-to-peer video sharing site was one of the hottest startups on the planet, with famous founders, tens of millions of dollars in investment, and thousands of people clamoring for invites.But those days are long over, as the likes of Hulu and YouTube have plowed past it in the re (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter is looking to pick up a few talented developers through acquisitions says Biz Stone:Reuters: "That is something we are definitely interested in," Stone told a news conference in Tel Aviv. "We made an acquisition last year that turned out to be an outstandingly good decision."Read the rest of this story »See Also:Twi (Read More)
TechCrunch:
LeWeb has published its schedule for the upcoming global conference for tech in Paris, and it’s looking pretty good. TechCrunch Europe is a media partner and is helping to organise the startup competition, so that’s our interest declared. That said Loic and Geraldine Le Meur have clearly finessed the event back towards tech (Read More)
Techmeme:
Arik Hesseldahl / BusinessWeek:Apple Launching New iPhone Ads Tonight — Apple is launching two new iPhone ads on TV tonight. The ads are intended to tout the iPhone's ability to hold a simultaneous voice and data connection at the same time. — One ad shows a set of work-related scenarios — looking at an email … (Read More)
Mashable!:
For the last month and a half, AT&T and Verizon have been at war. Verizon launched ads tearing down AT&T’s 3G coverage, AT&T countered with a lawsuit and ads starring Luke Wilson. Hell, even Apple is getting involved in this messy affair.With the two largest mobile networks making headlines, we thought it would be appropr (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Something really, really bad went down at high flying startup Canopy Financial.This is one of the high flying startups that had a lot of buzz the last couple of years. They’ve raised at least $85 million in venture capital with the help of an investment bank, Financial Technology Partners. Their most recent round, a reporte (Read More)