Camera+ Turned Down Acquisitions From Adobe, Google, Twitter; Also Says “F*ck The VCs” Two years ago, app developer tap tap tap launched Camera+ onto the App Store. For only a buck, users could get way more mileage out of the mobile photography experience, bringing 27 color effects and granular controls to their iPhone cameras. These features have made it one of the most popular camera apps out th

[brightcove video="1678667856001" /] German health company Medisana has released a high tech scale that measures weight, body fat and muscle mass for up to three users. The website for the TargetScale Body Analysis Scale (yes, the name is a mouthful) claims the device helps users reach their target weight faster. How is this done? Perhaps it's due to the scale's precise measuring of one's body. Th

LinkedIn is disabling the passwords of any users that could potentially be affected by a recent security breach, wherein 6.5 million hashed LinkedIn passwords were posted online, the company has announced. "Our first priority was to lock down and protect the accounts associated with the decoded passwords that we believed were at the greatest risk. We’ve invalidated those passwords and contacted th

500 Startups-Backed Cloud Productivity Tool 300.mg To Close Its Doors Next Week Launching its public beta in the fall of last year, 300milligrams (also known as “300.mg,”) set out to build a “priority inbox for team conversations.” The startup was one of the 34 teams in 500 Startups’ Fall 2011 batch, and, after graduating in January, spent the first half of this year iterating, trying to find its

Shooting Vertical Video on a Smartphone? You're Doing It Wrong [PSA] If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, you likely know this sinking feeling -- when you click on an amateur video with an interesting title, only to find the videographer has held his smartphone vertically instead of horizontally. The resulting video is horribly letterboxed when viewed on the site -- even, ironically, when viewed

TaskRabbit Founder Leah Busque Takes Back The Reins, Stepping Back Into CEO Role Leah Busque, the founder of TaskRabbit, the web and mobile marketplace for outsourcing small jobs and errands, has reassumed the role of CEO at the San Francisco-based startup. It was just this past fall that Busque handed over the chief executive title to Eric Grosse, an experienced web executive best known for co-fo

The tech boom is causing some sort of startup musical chairs: As Twitter moves out of its office today on 795 Folsom to move into a new space at 1355 Market St. in San Francisco, our neighbor Yammer joins them, eventually moving out of its abode on the third floor of our 410 Townsend building, leaving the 30,000 square foot area open for the taking … Rumors have being flying around the building th

Creative Market Nabs $1.3M From SV Angel, CrunchFund To Become An Etsy For Digital Design Earlier this year, ColourLovers founders Aaron Epstein, Chris Williams and Darius A Monsef IV (a.k.a. Bubs) launched Creative Market in private beta to give its community of color and template-creating designers a place to sell their digital content. And, today, they’re announcing that they’ve closed a second

Facebook’s Dilemma With Native iOS Apps: Relevance or Revenues Facebook revealed some healthy new stats about how it drives traffic to Apple’s iOS ecosystem at an event today in San Francisco. The platform drove people to Apple’s App Store 83 million times last month. On top of that, it sent people back to iOS apps they had already downloaded 134 million times. Facebook was also integrated into se

Okay folks, we’re live at Facebook’s press event for… sure enough, its new mobile App Center, the one that started leaking out earlier today. The company shared most of the details about how the store will work during a May press announcement, but to review: it’ll be one central store for finding any app across web, iOS, Android, mobile web, etc. You’ll get app suggestions based on ratings and wha

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What happens if you turn Twitter's newly redesigned bird on its side? A growing number of users think it looks like Batman. Hollywood-based user Josh Helfferich shared the superhero likeness in a tweet Thursday. It immediately went viral, with nearly 1,000 retweets in the hour-and-a-half since it was posted at 3:05 p.m. ET. The graphic originally appeared on Oliver Twardowski's Dribble profile Thu