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Many people have never heard of myYearbook, a social network that skews pretty young (half of its members are teenagers). But it’s got a substantial audience, with around 55.7 million visits and 4.3 million uniques a month, according to comScore. And recently, it’s been growing very quickly — according to comScore, unique [...]
Sun, April 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Twitter has just announced that it acquired Tweetie, the very popular and highly polished Twitter application for the iPhone . The application will now be called “Twitter for iPhone” and will drop from $2.99 to free, with developer Loren Brichter (who makes up the one-man startup Atebits) joining the Twitter mobile team. Twitter [...]
Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
As you'd expect, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a constant salesman. At a dinner last night in New York City, he kept showing everybody in the room his newest baby, Salesforce Chatter, which turns Salesforce into feeds of people and customer data. He was showing it on his iPhone, which he wields as [...]
Thu, April 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Even a casual glance at new Russian site BigLion shows you that the creators not only copied Groupon’s business model, but they also just ripped the site design and navigation off completely, too. The sites look nearly identical, even down to the smallest details.
What’s more, the practice seems to be accepted in Russia, and the [...]
Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
During his keynote at SXSW last month, Twitter CEO Evan Wiliams announced an upcoming new platform called @anywhere, which would allow third party sites to integrate Twitter features (he also showed off some of the partners who would be featuring the platform, which you can see in the image at right). Twitter didn’t give [...]
Fri, April 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
There is obviously a lot of excitement around the iPad. Kleiner Perkins is doubling its iFund to launch more companies around the new device. And everyone from existing iPhone app developers and media companies is rushing to create iPad versions of their apps. As the screenshots leaked to us below show, you [...]
Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Under the radar startup ReadyForce has raised $12.2 million in funding from Menlo Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, Founder Collective and other investors.
The startup seems to still be under wraps according to its website, which is pretty bare. We do know that ReadyForce was founded by Bill Trenchard, former CEO of LiveOps, and is developing [...]
Mon, March 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Whenever there’s a big event, like SXSW, we usually have people there to live-blog the important keynotes and/or write recaps of it afterwards. I’m not gonna lie, sometimes those are boring. You know what’s better? Rap songs that recap keynotes.
Hip-hop artist SaulPaul has released a video on YouTube which recaps the keynote Spotify CEO Daniel [...]
Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Online storefronts for retail goods are popping up all over Facebook, with the social network fast becoming a virtual shopping mall. We recently wrote about Payvment, a startup that implements PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API to let anyone set up a retail storefront on Facebook. Today, BigCommerce, a company that provides ecommerce software to online retailers [...]
Wed, March 24 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
When you think of one percent of something, it’s usually not a very big number. But in some cases it is. Like when you’re talking about all of the users of the Internet in the world.
Today, OpenDNS is announcing that over one percent of the world’s Internet users are using its services. It’s the first [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
