Mashable!:
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possibl (Read More)
TechCrunch:
“Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” – Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook.Today, at our RealTime Crunc (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it.The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things DigitalA new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about.This week: We caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technolog (Read More)
VentureBeat:
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise.One of our newest speakers is Randy Breen, chief op (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Tech issues fell across the board Friday, sparked by investor disappointment over Dell's latest earnings report. MarketWatch's Dan Gallagher reports from San Francisco.
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VentureBeat:
Playhaven is making it easy for gamers to create fan communities around iPhone games. It does so by creating online forums for fans on its web site, with a new fan section for every iPhone game. Developers can then claim thos (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said Friday that it has found a mutated version of the H1N1 virus in three patients in Norway, two of whom died. The institute suggested this is normal a (Read More)
GigaOM:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo, speaking today on a panel at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp event in San Francisco, shed some light into the micromessaging service’s revenue plans, promising that it will begin taking a cut of its (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco, the first roundtable is entitled “Filtering the Stream: Getting Rid of the Noise.”The panel is populated by a lot of big players in the space: Facebook, VP of Product Chr (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at the second TechCrunch RealTime CrunchUp in San Francisco, where we’ll be taking a deeper dive into realtime technology and where the streams are taking us. Kicking off the event is a conversation with Twitter CO (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation.Twitter is one of the hottest play (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Also known as the entire technology press amirite? Ha? In all seriousness though—Maclife asked various bloggers, journalists and tech personalities what their dream Apple products would be, and mocked them all up in detailed (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks sank Friday morning, as shares of Dell Inc. fell sharply after the computer maker posted a drop in quarterly profit. Dell was down about 8% at the opening bell, as the Nasdaq (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Like the prior generation, the new Pogoplug lets you share any USB drive over the Internet. It'll run for a slightly higher $129, still have no service fees, but it will take up to four USB drives at a time. Aside from automa (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Tomorrow’s Real Time CrunchUp in San Francisco is going to be a blast. It’s an all day event absolutely filled with the thought and business leaders in the space, as well as a whole slew of newcomers launching new startups.An (Read More)
GigaOM:
In my first week back on the web beat at GigaOM, one of the topics I wanted to focus on was location. Let’s just say that hasn’t exactly been a difficult task. Coming at us from Boulder, San Francisco and London, here are (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- EBay Inc. said Thursday afternoon that it has completed its planned sale of Skype, its Internet telephony unit. The sale valued Skype at $2.75 billion, though eBay received approximately $1.9 b (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Nike Inc. late Thursday said it raised its quarterly dividend by 8% to 27 cents a share from 25 cents. The dividend will be paid on Jan. 4 to shareholders of record at the close of business on (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Novellus Systems on Thursday narrowed its revenue and earnings per share outlook for the fourth quarter, citing improvements in business conditions. The company said it now expects revenue in th (Read More)