What you need to know - 08/19/11

Ronny Kerr · August 19, 2011 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/1e0d

HP discontinues webOS; a few well-funded startups progress quickly; Ashton stumbles a bit

Amazon says its Instant Video library has grown to more than 100,000 titles available for instant streaming—some five-times the size of Netflix’s Watch Instantly collection.

Hollywood darling and prolific tech investor Ashton Kutcher may face the wrath of the FTC after serving as a guest editor for an online-only version of Details Magazine, in which he failed to disclose his investments in a number of the companies he championed in the issue.

 

 

 

 

Textbook rental service has started offering digital textbook rentals.

 

 

Everything-organizer Evernote acquired image annotation application Skitch. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Foursquare is getting in the events business. That is, after a couple years of seeing users create “locations” like “U2 at the Meadowlands,” foursquare has actually created a feature that lets users embed certain events into a check-in.

GoodData, provider of a cloud business intelligence (BI) platform, closed $15 million in new venture financing, bringing the total raised to date to $28.5 million.

HP is shutting down operations for webOS devices and exploring strategic alternatives for webOS software.

 

 

 


Salesforce posted Q2 financial results: the company saw record quarterly revenue of $546 million, up 38 percent year-over-year.

 

 

 

Today's Entrepreneur is Jonathan Gael, co-founder of Ether2.

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Jonathan Gael is a Co-Founder of the breakthrough technology company, Ether2, where he and the team are on a mission to close the digital divide for billions of people and trillions of sensors that will comprise the next-gen Internet of Things.