VentureBeat:
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. This is paraphrased. Mark Pincus is the CEO of social gaming company Zynga.)So Pincus talks about his career. About how he went into banking. Then to business school. Then hadn’t really succeeded at any of th (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.Several bedrock assumptions in modern computing are crumbling. Individual processor cores no longer double in speed every two years. Netbook PCs are as inexpensive as smartphones. Scientists and gamers now use the same computing h (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Anyone familiar with internet startup culture knows how little capital it takes to start a tech company these days. With hardware and software costs practically nonexistent for most new companies, the main determinant of whether a promising startup will get underway and off the ground lies with the founders’ circumstances, (Read More)
Mashable!:
This week, the FCC is expected to reveal the details of its Net Neutrality plan, which Chairman Julius Genachowski has discussed numerous times over the past month. Now, a coalition of 23 of the world’s largest Internet and technology companies are formally offering their support for the new rules in a letter to the Chairm (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Cryptic Studios is one of the few companies that has made a living at making massively multiplayer online games and lived to tell about it. Since 2000, the company has created three successful MMOs: City of Heroes, City of Villains, and Champions Online.But now it has a chance for the big time with Star Trek Online, a new M (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Scout Labs, which provides a web-based platform which companies use to monitor online chatter about their products, has raised $4 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The startup said earlier this month that it had raised a round but did not say how much money it involved. Cash comes from new investors (Read More)
VentureBeat:
[Richard Wong, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, submitted this piece to VentureBeat.]Moile has never been hotter with the iPhone, Android, the explosion in mobile advertising, and the rise of mobile apps, but, you’d never know it walking around the mobile conference called CTIA, held here in San Diego today.The CT (Read More)
VentureBeat:
AT&T announced yesterday that it will enable iPhone VoIP apps on its 3G wireless network. You’d think that’d be great news for VoiP companies, and market leader Skype in particular, and indeed, Skype CEO Josh Silverman rejoiced, asking for even more concessions. But dig a little deeper, and the picture isn’t quite so rosy.T (Read More)
readwriteweb:
If there's a hard-to-reach person you want to meet, one of the best ways to do so is through their friends. That's true in the offline world and the increasingly social nature of the internet may make discovery of the social circles of key influencers a powerful business practice online. A new class of tools intended to s (Read More)
Valleywag:
Working with internet startup Sellaband, Public Enemy hopes to turn its fans into investors, bucking The Man in the process. For as little as $25, you too can become a greedy record executive. Just like those slammed by Public Enemy.The rap band has been a pioneer in digital media, selling MP3 files and building a collectio (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Accel Partners has poored $4.5 million into Causata, a San Francisco-based software startup that provides tools companies can use to optimize customer experience and business results. The Series A round actually closed back in April this year, but has only now been made public through a regulatory filing, reports peHUB. Jud (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we continue the build-up to our first event: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th in Mountain View, California. You can register here for the low price of $195. Also this week we published a list of 50 leading Real- (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Six Apart said today that it’s ready to expand its TypePad hosting service beyond blogs — now it wants to power “the next Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube.” As an example of what developers can create using the TypePad Platform, Six Apart is unveiling a new microblogging application called TypePad Motions, which is based on Po (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The following guest post is written by Larry Chiang, a co-founder of Duck9 who also regularly blogs for BusinessWeek. Today he is reporting from the Finovate startup conference.At the FinovateStartup conference in New York City today, it is clear that financial startups are pushing forward regardless of funding woes or a l (Read More)