TechCrunch:
We had a great interview with Twitter COO Dick Costolo at the Real-Time CrunchUp on Friday. Costolo always gives the audience a few good nuggets of news and handles the more difficult questions with ease. He’s a pro.After the conference I reviewed some of the backstage footage we shot of Costolo before he went on stage for (Read More)
Engadget:
Go figure, right? You get a relatively hot phone out onto more carriers, and just like that, sales increase. It ain't rocket science, buster. As AT&T grins happily while enjoying a death grip on Apple's cash cow here in the States, things are a lot more wide open for consumers across the pond. In both France and the UK, the (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that the speed at which web pages are available might become a factor in SEO moving into 2010. He said that because many within Google consider (Read More)
mashable:
Spotify, the European music service that attracted attention by launching the first streaming music app for the iPhone, now has a version for Symbian smartphones. Spotify is a fantastic app, offering access to over 6 million tracks; unfortunately, it’s available only in certain European countries, with the US version pendin (Read More)
A VC:
Our portfolio company Covestor is looking for a VP Product and a head of marketing. Both positions are in New York City.Covestor has created an entirely new form of investment product - people powered investing. With Covestor you don't buy stocks and you don't buy funds. You "follow investors" with your capital. I've been i (Read More)
Submitted by Frederiek Pascal
from Google Reader:
Google Earth is probably the first and only desktop application to have AdSense Ads. These ads are is now showing in at least two different places inside the application:Figure A: When you search for a location or business, the ads are displayed in the search results itself.Figure B: When you click a placemark (any red pin (Read More)
mashable:
A couple of weeks ago, the first iPhone worm appeared, spreading on jailbroken devices with the SSH application installed (vulnerability being the fact that many users haven’t changed the default root password). As far as worms go, this one was quite benign, merely “rickrolling” users; i.e., changing the background image on (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Web-based productivity suite Zoho is launching a new product today, Zoho Recruit. A niche product, Zoho Recruit, is an application designed to help HR Departments and staffing agencies management recruitment. Zoho Recruit, which is an offshoot of Zoho People’s recruitment technology, is an Applicant Tracking System that hel (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Now that we’ve all actually seen Chrome OS, the immediate reaction that most are jumping to is that it won’t be killing Windows anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt Microsoft, and apply long-term pressure to the dominant OS. In fact, Google’s positioning for Chrome OS reads like a page out of Apple’s playbook, (Read More)
Engadget:
When it comes to nerd obsessions, the only thing that can trump a fictional tablet developed by battling left-coast legends is the promise of a revolutionary OS from Google that relies upon nothing but a browser and the dreams of a young Larry Ellison. Don't even start with your Korean product waifs as we're trying to keep (Read More)
TechCrunch:
WinBuyer has just announced that it has raised institutional funding for the first time, to the tune of $6.9 million, in a Series A round led by Pitango Venture Capital and joined by Giza Venture Capital.The young Israeli company markets a so-called Onsite Comparative Pricing (OCP) application, which aims to help Internet r (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Late last night, AOL revealed a sneak peek at their new branding campaign for their soon-to-be standalone content-focused business. The rebranding effort will officially launch on December 10th when AOL begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a separate company from Time Warner, its current owner. The new logos - y (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Having just launched a new real-time mobile search engine in conjunction with OneRiot only weeks ago, mobile search company Taptu is now expanding their revamped service to the Android platform. Today, they're launching a new application designed specifically for Android phones running version 1.5 and above. Like their bran (Read More)
Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
The “great demographics - now what” part of the LinkedIn equation has no doubt been kicking around at company HQ for quite a while and yesterday they answered part of the question by announcing Custom Groups. Unlike the free LinkedIn groups that crowd your inbox with updates, Custom Groups are more feature rich, allows (Read More)