Andreessen Horowitz Keeps Eating The Software World With $11.2 Million Investment In JavaScript Framework Company Meteor Meteor, the company behind an application development framework of the same name, today announced $11.2 series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, with Matrix Partners also contributing. The investment follows Andreessen Horowitz’ record breaking $100 million investment in Githu
Google Gets Scientific, Adds A Voice-Enabled 34-Button Calculator To Desktop And Mobile Search Oh Google. Sometimes you’re so awesome. Google search has long featured a built-in calculator function but a recent update added a fully functional 34-button scientific calculator. Previously, when a user entered, say, 2+2, Google would simply display the sum above the search result. Now, when that equat
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
No Wi-Fi, Please, We’re British: Olympics Will Ban Personal Hotspots As if the rules at the 2012 London Olympics didn’t sound draconian enough, the organization has banned personal Wi-Fi hotspots from the games, thereby ensuring that people will just tether their phones in secret and surf the web like the champions they are. This follows hot on the heels of prohibitions from sharing Olympic news v
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Still a Hobby? Apple Sells 4 Million Apple TVs in Fiscal Year According to Cook, Apple has now sold more than 4 million Apple TVs in the fiscal year. While Cook still says that this is "still at a level that [the company] would call a hobby," he says the company is continuing to "pull the string to see where it takes us." Cook also acknowledged that Apple "isn't one to keep around projects that it
GoodData racked up $25 million in a third round of funding for its big data analytics service. GoodData offers operational dashboards, metrics and performance reports, data storage, analytics, and collaboration tools in a single platform. The company focuses on user experience, so all the tricky, technical elements of big data are comprehensible to people outside of IT teams. “Big data is a very f
GoodData Raises $25 Million To Extend Cloud Based Business Intelligence Platform GoodData has raised $25 million to continue developing its cloud-based business intelligence technology. The funding brings GoodData’s total funding to $53.5 million. Founder and CEO Roman Stanek said the investment came from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners and Fidelity Growth Partner
Last week, Foursquare began allowing business owners to send local updates -- say, their specials for the day, or a picture of their new outdoor seating area -- to their “best customers” when they’re nearby. “Best customers” are those who check in frequently, and possibly have "Liked" the venue on Foursquare. Now, businesses can aim those updates at users who aren't their best customers, but could
Recent Virgin Media TV ads starring athlete Usain Bolt claiming an end to buffering irk me because, in truth, I often experience exactly that. Why does @virginmedia buffer so bad on Xbox? Does it crap out on everything and i just don’t notice? — Robert Andrews (@RobertAndrews) July 13, 2012 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRZqQGcciFc&w=560&h=315] Rival BT complained to the UK’s Advertising
Foursquare Rolls Out Its First Big Money-Making Feature: ‘Promoted Updates’ Foursquare has revamped the experience of its app from the perspective of its users on both the consumer and merchant side. And on Wednesday, the company is pulling back the curtains on a long-awaited feature for all Foursquare watchers: Revenue generation. Foursquare is announcing today the pilot launch of “promoted updat
Facebook Opens First International Engineering Office In London Facebook announced today that they have opened a London engineering office, adding to their Menlo Park, New York and Seattle engineering offices. The company has 22 open positions at the new office. Facebook says it has engineers scattered at its other numerous U.S. and foreign offices, but this is the first official international eng
Coming Soon (Well, Maybe): All Those Tweets You Wrote Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told The New York Times that users will soon be able to access and download all of their old tweets. Twitter currently only lets users browse back through a few thousand of their old tweets. How soon? Costolo declined to give a timeline. Other third-party platforms already offer these servies. Facebook’s Download Your I
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Apple’s Feeling Europe’s Economic Crisis: ‘Essentially Flat’ Sales And A ‘Slowdown’ In Business, Says Cook Apple often gets a lot of love in Europe, but in the last quarter that wasn’t enough to help it against the tide of economic woe hitting the region. In today’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Tim Cook described sales in the region as “essentially flat to slightly positive” — and, not unlike the wider m
If You Don’t Think You Need It, You Haven’t Seen Greatness Editor’s note: Joe Kraus is a partner at Google Ventures, focusing on mobile, gaming, and local services. In 1993, he co-founded Excite.com, an early Internet search engine. He also co-founded JotSpot in 2004, a wiki company acquired by Google in 2006. Follow him on his blog, JoeKraus.com, and on Twitter: @jkraus. One thing I can hear with
When WikiLeaks made its first big media appearance by publishing tens of thousands of top-secret diplomatic cables in 2010, we argued the group headed by controversial front man Julian Assange was a media entity, albeit an unusual one. The broader implications of this status extend far beyond the question of whether we support the organization or its motives: As a blog post at the Electronic Front
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Facebook Open Graph Leader Leaves: Director Of Product Management Carl Sjogreen Plots Next Adventure Facebook’s acq-hiring like crazy and retaining plenty of top talent, but today marks another post-IPO departure as Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen told friends that he’s heading out to take some family time and “plot my next adventure”. However, he tells me there’s “no concrete ideas y
Apple Shipped 1.3M Apple TVs In Q3 2012, Still Calls It A Hobby “We are not going to keep products around we don’t believe in,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook in regards to the Apple TV on today’s earnings call. He also stated that Apple still considers the product a hobby although Apple keeps at the project because they stated “it will lead us [Apple] somewhere.” Apple is very happy with Apple TV’s grow
CEO Cook On China In Q3: Apple Had $5.7B In Sales, Still Growing At ‘Incredible’ Rate Apple today noted in its earnings call for Q3 that two-thirds of its Asia Pacific revenue is coming from Greater China at the moment. CEO Tim Cook noted that revenues in the country were $5.7 billion for the quarter, 48 percent increase on last year, and still growing at an “incredible rate.” To date Apple’s reve
Apple Q3 Earnings: Apple Now Has Over $117 Billion In Cash Reserves Apple closed its record June quarter with $117 billion in cash reserves, up from $110 billion last quarter. Crediting strong sales of almost all products as well as an improved economy. Asia-Pacific growth increased 25% this quarter (down from 100% last quarter), 2/3s of which came from China. Apple announced they would also conti
During Apple’s Q3 earnings call today, the company’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that Apple now has 150 Million iCloud users. That’s up from 125 million users the company cited in its last quarterly earnings call in April. As Apple announced at its annual developer conference earlier this year, iCloud will be tightly integrated into Mountain Lion, the next version of OS X that’s scheduled to l
According to Apple’s Q3 filing, OS X Mountain Lion will be released to the public tomorrow, July 25. The OS improves on the current version, Lion, by adding iOS-like notifications as well as improvements like Game Center and tweaks to the Mail app. Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote: “We’re thrilled with record sales of 17 million iPads in the June quarter. We’ve also just updated the entire MacBook line, w
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Apple Reports Disappointing Mac Sales Despite Retina MacBook Release: 4 Million Units Sold In Q3 2012 Analysts have been sharply divided in providing estimates for Apple’s third quarter earnings report. And it would appear that this time, predictions of a mild third quarter were correct. Apple saw a bit of a plateau in Mac sales, with 4 million Macs, 26 million iPhones, and 17 million iPads sold i
Apple’s Q3 2012: $35B In Revenue, Net Profit Of $8.8B, Earnings Of $9.32 Per Share Apple has just released its fiscal Q3 2012 earnings, and the Cupertino-based company reported revenues of $35 billion (compared to $28.6 billion in the year-ago quarter and $39.2 billion in Q2 2012) and quarterly net profit of $8.8 billion (compared to $7.3 billion in the year-ago quarter and $11.6B in Q2 2012). All
A long-running dance between the European Commission and Google (s goog) over antitrust allegations is finally coming to an end amid reports that the two sides have reached an “understanding.” According to a report by the Financial Times (registration required), Google offered to “make significant changes to its business practices” in order to avoid large fines and drawn out legal proceedings like
Republican Presidential front-runner, Mitt Romney, may hold the most unpopular stance in American history: he wants to ban as much porn as he can. A 2007 video (below) of Romney promising to place porn filters on every new computer have resurfaced after his legal adviser “assured” President Reagan’s anti-porn legal crusader that Romney sticks by his pledge to curtail porn and resumes prosecution u
Look Out, Netflix: Verizon and Redbox Gear Up to Launch Competitor The joint venture now has a name -- Redbox Instant by Verizon -- as well as a CEO: Shawn Strickland, formerly president of Verizon's New York south/east region. It will launch sometime in the second half of 2012, according to the company's website. The multi-platform subscription service will have both an online streaming and downl
Jessica Alba And Brian Lee Are Coming To SF Disrupt! We are incredibly excited to announce two more amazing speakers who will be joining us onstage at this year’s Disrupt SF — The Honest Company co-founders Jessica Alba and Brian Lee! Alba and Lee will be joining our already impressive list of formidable Disrupt speakers, which so far includes: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Marc Benioff, s
In both politics and commerce, marketers have never had more tools for tailoring advertising to people based on their interests. But a new study from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that they might want to consider their options carefully. The report found that 86 percent of respondents did not want political ads tailored to their interests and tha
The Future Of Shopping Looks Blurry: Microsoft And TheFind Launch Glimpse Catalogs HTML5 Shopping App Nothing says modern web tech technology like making print shopping catalogs available online – or at least that’s what Microsoft and shopping search engine TheFind must have been thinking. The two companies unveiled a new project called Glimpse Catalogs today that makes extensive use of HTML5 and
Google to Political Campaigns: Get Online, Now [INFOGRAPHIC] Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been pouring money into television -- long considered the most crucial place for a political campaign to advertise -- to the tune of at least $125 million combined. However, Google is urging all political candidates not to overlook the importance of online advertising. Google released on Tuesday the belo
Koding (Gradually) Opens Its Social, In-Browser Development Tools To Everyone Koding, the startup that helps developers code and collaborate from their web browser, is leaving private beta today. The company isn’t exactly throwing the doors open. It’s more like … nudging? The goal is to make the product available to everyone, but the company is opening gradually, with the hope of not overloading i
Are you sick of poring through Wikipedia pages to learn about complex topics? Or pretending you know the difference between super PACs and Super Bass? Have you forgotten everything you learned in your high school biology class? Or did you regrettably never really learn it in the first place? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we've got just the solution: 10 YouTube videos that use cart
Arguably, one of the best features of Amazon’s(s amzn) Kindle e-readers with 3G is free, unlimited mobile broadband. Device owners can use the connection for downloading e-books when out of Wi-Fi range and can also use the web through an experimental browser. The free Internet ride is over though: Amazon is now capping use of the browser over 3G at 50 megabytes per month. The change, first noticed
Say Goodbye to Record Stores and Physical Albums [INFOGRAPHIC] Music is widely free on the Internet. In seconds, web surfers can access millions of song on YouTube or an unlimited live stream with digital services such as Spotify. With smartphone apps, free music is even available to-go. So, with free all-you-can-stream services, have people stopped paying for music? The numbers say yes. By 2016,
WhoSay Gets $12 Million Series C Led By Comcast Ventures For Its Celebrity-Centric Social Platform WhoSay, an online media management platform for celebrities and other “influencers,” has raised $12 million in a new funding round led by Comcast Ventures. The raise, which counts as WhoSay’s Series C, included participation from existing investors Greylock Partners, Amazon, and High Peaks Ventures;
Free People, a contemporary women's fashion label owned by Urban Outfitters, has begun integrating consumers' Instagram photos onto its product pages. The company has assigned individual product hashtags to a selection of denim items. Customers are encouraged to upload pictures of themselves in one of those items to Twitter or Instagram with the product hashtag -- for the Sorbet Tie Dye Jean above
Now Supporting 50 Interactive “Email Apps,” PowerInbox Crosses 1 Million Views PowerInbox, the email platform company that makes messages interactive, has just crossed 1 million email views. The startup has expanded from its initial, limited set of third-party services supported (Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, etc.), and can now run over 50 “email apps” in your inbox. These apps allow for interactive
Airbnb Acqui-Hires Brian Pokorny And The Batch/DailyBooth Team To Boost Mobile Adoption Airbnb has grown dramatically over the last year, announcing last month that it topped 10 million total nights booked, with more than 200,000 active properties listed on its site. But one area where it expects huge growth is on mobile, which is fast becoming a key focus for the company. About 20 percent of Airb
IFTTT Adds Box And Plans New Channel Platform Intended To Connect Business Apps I am an unabashed fan of IFTTT. That’s “If This Then That” to the uninitiated. It provides ways to connect different services. For example, you can use IFTTT to simultaneously upload a photo to Facebook and then direct it to Dropbox for your own archival purposes. I use IFTTT to direct feeds to my SMS account and to Tw
We’ve written before about how the evolution of Twitter from a real-time information utility into a full-fledged media entity is causing some friction with developers, and also raising competitive issues with traditional media outlets. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal about the company’s future, CEO Dick Costolo made it clear that Twitter wants to play a central role in media events su
Payvment CEO Christian Taylor Leaves To Restartup 4 Years After Founding Facebook’s Top Ecommerce Platform 175,000 merchants rely on Payvment to power their Facebook Page ecommerce stores, but now the startup’s founder and CEO Christian Taylor is leaving, telling me “I’m ready to work on my next big startup! (after a short nap)”. Taylor will remain on Payvment’s board of directors, but shop owners
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Mobile payments: everyone talks about it, but no one knows exactly how it works or who will win. In a recent report, BI Intelligence explains why card readers like Square -- and not near-field communications, carrier billing, or apps -- combined with software and services are in the best position to win. We also detail why Square specifically has the edge over larger latecomers in the card reader
YouTube is making it harder for users who post negative and hurtful comments on videos to hide behind the site's anonymity. The video-sharing site is urging users to start using their full name when commenting and uploading clips. Instead of displaying a pen name linked to the YouTube account, the company wants to link to the user's full name and picture used on their Google+ account. Although You
(Updated 6:00pm with 3Taps response) Craigslist has followed up on earlier threats and filed a lawsuit against popular apartment listing site PadMapper. The case raises questions over whether Craigslist is stifling innovation or simply protecting its data. In a complaint filed in San Francisco, Craigslist is accusing PadMapper and “one stop data shop” 3taps of a slew of infractions, including copy
Canadian Angel Boris Wertz Raises $15 Million To Launch Micro-VC Fund Version One Ventures After years of investing his own money, Canadian angel Boris Wertz has raised $15 million and created a new fund that will enable him to make even larger investments in early-stage startups. The fund, which will be focused on consumer Internet, software-as-a-service, e-commerce, and mobile companies. Wertz w
Publishers, We Need To Talk: Text From Dog Gets A Book Deal Look guys and gals in publishing, sit down. You can bring in your Coco Water. Totally. Yeah. We have some gluten-free sandwiches coming in and I promise this won’t affect summer hours. You can still not come in on Friday. Yeah, you can take off your loafers. Whatever. Ok. I know you’re confused and hurting. Revenues are falling and ebooks
Exotic vacation destinations provide rich source material for photographers, and yet they are also often places where people are in real need. That’s a situation new Berlin startup Photocircle is trying to help improve — by providing a deeper link between the two worlds. It’s a very simple idea: If a photographer has taken a fine-art-quality snap somewhere around the world, they can upload it to P
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
BandPage Unshackles From Facebook, Now Helps 500K Musicians Build Synced Sites and Widgets Too With $19 million in funding but the Timeline redesign cratering its traffic, BandPage needed to diversify beyond Facebook. So today it launches BandPage Everywhere to let musicians build websites and embeddable widgets as well as Facebook Page apps. Rather than inefficiently trying to sync content, the h
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