5 days ago

TechCrunch Well done, Apple. You've finally done it. You've got the world bending the knee for a device they've never seen, and which you deny exists. Condé Nast has declared that Wired will be Apple tablet-compatible by mid-2010, although they admit that Apple hasn't actually told them how they might go about doing that. While this i (Read More)

5 days ago

TechCrunch I’m a big fan of street style focused-fashion, microblogging sites, like Weardrobe, where anyone can post pictures of their coordinated outfits for others to admire and emulate. Like.com, a visual shopping search engine, has acquired Weardrobe for an undisclosed amount.Weardrobe is user generated, social platform for person (Read More)

7 days ago

TechCrunch Back when I was a teenager my parents had a simple rule – I had to be home by midnight. There was a doozie of an exception, though. If I was drinking they didn’t want me to drive, so all I had to do was call home, tell them I was drinking and I could stay over at a friend’s house. You can imagine that my parents pretty much (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

readwriteweb Often compared to Twitter for its meteoric rise to media darling status, location-based check-in game Foursquare is incredibly smart about its member acquisition and business strategy. On the heels of its September launch of Foursquare for Business and its recent partnership with the Bay Area Rapid Transit service, the grou (Read More)

Nov 14, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Six years after creating Second Life, Philip Rosedale announced that he would be focusing on a new project. Shrouded in mystery, the Linden Chairman and fellow Lindenite Ryan Downe began work in October on Love Machine Inc. Said Rosedale in today's blog post, "Yes, we are working on making a version of the Linden Lab LoveMa (Read More)

7 days ago

Silicon Alley Insider It's been hard to get excited about much at Sprint Nextel over the last several years, as the carrier has lost buckets of money and subscribers. (Though a few recent, modest signs of improvement.)But it's still leading its rivals in one important metric: Getting its subscribers to pay up for mobile data services, such as te (Read More)

Nov 15, 2009

TechCrunch “I’ll take you! I live there!” a small boy with a blue shirt and a perfect toothy grin said as he ran ahead of me. His quiet friend in yellow jogged beside him smiling shyly, his jet-black Elvis curl bobbing on his forehead. The boy in blue stopped a few yards in front of me turned around, beaming and added in Hindi, “I kno (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

TechCrunch Most of you have probably seen Sales Guy v. Web Dude, a hilarious video on the joys of tech support. If you haven’t seen it, kiss ten minutes goodbye and start there. It ranks up there with the stuff on Best Page In The Universe in entertainment and laugh value.The creator was quiet for a long time after that video. But in (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Tlimongello from Google Reader: Convertible notes tend to be a great way to raise money from angels.  They are easy to paper and don’t lock in a valuation or terms.  But they will impact the valuation of the financing that they convert into and in a way that’s a bit funky.The math of an investment when there is no converting debt is simple.  For the compa (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

Submitted by Tlimongello from Google Reader: A conversation with the CEO of a SaaS company today reminded me of the importance of the rule of 78s. What is this “rule”, you ask. If you run a recurring revenue business, it is the most important number you have never heard of.Back to my conversation with the CEO. We were talking about the use of proceeds for the financin (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Submitted by Tlimongello from Google Reader: Livestreaming is all the rage today, be it from a handset or home computer with a webcam. But one of the major challenges is how to view that live content on a handset. Wouldn’t it be nice if a company could provide a method for livestreaming to mobiles without a lengthy re-encoding process? Lo and behold, enter Livestream, (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

A VC One of the more contentious things in the negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a financing, particularly an early stage financing, is the inclusion of an option pool in the pre-money valuation. As my friend Mark Pincus likes to say, "it's just another way to lower the price".I'll accept that critique. And take (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

GigaOM Apple is expected to ship 11 million million iPhones this quarter, and is banking on China for continued growth, according to an analyst note issued today. Daniel Amir, director and senior research analyst of semiconductors at Lazard Capital Markets, cited China Unicom as sayings it’s sold some 30,000 iPhones in the country (Read More)

Nov 14, 2009

GigaOM At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco yesterday, I interviewed Sam Blackman, co-founder and CEO of Elemental Technologies, about trends on computing and storage costs. Elemental makes software that takes advantage of graphics processors to provide super fast transcoding, which is the process by which video conte (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Mozilla plans to release Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, for Nokia's Maemo, Windows Mobile and Android devices in the near future. In an interview with Om Malik, Mozilla CEO John Lilly also said that Mozilla has fallen behind in the mobile space, as WebKit-based browsers like Safari on the iPhone currently have a lar (Read More)

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