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Chinese woman jailed for tweet

by Faith Merino, November 22, 2010 | Comments (1)

Cheng Jianping, 46, is believed to be the first person ever arrested in China for a tweet

Cheng Jianping, a 46-year-old human rights activist in China, was sentenced to one year of re-education in a labor camp last week for “disturbing social order.” Her offense? A tweet. Not even her own tweet—it was a re-tweet. The real kicker is that the original author of the tweet, Cheng’s fiancé, Hua Chunhui, was not arrested. While Cheng was charged ...

Amazon announces kindle e-book gift feature

by Faith Merino, November 19, 2010 | Comments

	Gifting e-books no longer uncool? The Kindle is Amazon’s most gifted item, and now Web users can give the gift of a Kindle e-book to anyone with an email address, regardless of whether or not they own a Kindle. Amazon made the announcement Friday morning, adding that the e-books can be read on an iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, Blackberry, Android device, or even just a ...
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Orb TV breaks onto the digital TV scene

by Faith Merino, November 19, 2010 | Comments (2)

How it works and why the CEO says it can't be shut down by TV networks

Bummed because you can’t actually watch anything on Google TV now that all of the major networks have pulled out? Answer: Orb TV. Or, at least, it’s an answer for now, until Google gets its act together. The simple $100 plug-in, which resembles a hockey puck, streams content from Hulu and was purposely designed to be as easy for the ...

Google wants Groupon

by Faith Merino, November 19, 2010 | Comments (2)

The search juggernaut is rumored to be in discussions with Groupon about an acquisition

Update: The rumors may have some merit. Groupon just tweeted: "Hang in there, everyone: big things are afoot at Groupon.com today and we apologize for the site being so slow. We're on it. Updates soon..." Google said via email that it is not commenting on rumors, and Groupon's Julie Mossler spiced things up a bit in her email response: "Any ...

Eric Ries on learning, failing, and pivoting

by Faith Merino, November 19, 2010 | Comments

The author and consultant at The Lean Startup takes questions from the Amplify audience

Author, speaker, and consultant Eric Ries spoke at Thursday's Amplify event, where the former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers venture advisor took questions from the audience. The discussion started with the term Eric coined, "the lean startup." Eric started out as a software engineer, and then he went the entrepreneur-route but found that every company he started, flopped. So ...

Tripping wins Amplify event

by Faith Merino, November 18, 2010 | Comments (5)

The global travel network connects travelers with locals

Thirteen startups competed in Thursday's Amplify business pitch competition, but only one walked away the victor. Jen O'Neal, co-founder and CEO of Tripping, won two iPads for her startup, an online cultural exchange network that matches travelers with locals. The network consists of travelers and hosts, who can connect online to foster richer cultural exchanges. Hosts introduce travelers to their ...

Esther Dyson on space travel and Groupon

by Faith Merino, November 18, 2010 | Comments

Esther Dyson speaks at Amplify and discusses her position on a number of issues in emerging tech

Angel investor Esther Dyson joined the Amplify event via Skype Thursday and spoke with journalist Cathy Brooks. Interesting tidbit about Esther Dyson: she paid $3 million to be the second person to fly to the moon. After some initial tech problems, Cathy brilliantly improvised to turn the interview into a fireside chat from a laptop. Cathy kicked off the interview ...

Gowalla's goin' to Disney!

by Faith Merino, November 18, 2010 | Comments

The company is partnering with Disney to bring location-based services to Disney theme parks

If you’ve ever gone to a theme park—or worse, taken kids to a theme park—you know that the process of navigating the park to find that one awesome ride can be daunting. Disney is doing its part to make the theme park experience that much less painful for parents (or, you could argue, that much more fun for people who ...

Amplify finalists

by Faith Merino, November 18, 2010 | Comments

An overview of the finalists who will be pitching at the Amplify business pitch competition

Updated to include Is That Odd, Inc. Thursday’s Amplify business pitch competition in San Francisco will spotlight a number of competitive woman-led startups. The event, which is being hosted by Vator and Girls In Tech, will feature two keynote addresses from angel investor Esther Dyson, and Eric Ries, author, speaker, and consultant at The Lean Startup. In the Consumer Products ...

Mike McCue explains Flipboard

by Faith Merino, November 17, 2010 | Comments

Interview with co-founder and CEO of Flipboard

I recently sat down with Mike McCue, co-founder and CEO of Flipboard, to talk about the iPad app that's been getting rave reviews. Described as a "social magazine," Flipboard presents a user's Facebook and Twitter information into an interactive, magazine-like interface so that the user can follow friends and browse through media uploads, such as pictures, videos, and shared links ...

Yipit launches Yipit Nation

by Faith Merino, November 17, 2010 | Comments (1)

The new feature displays nationwide deals in a wide range of different categories

Yipit just upped the ante on social shopping. On Wednesday, the group-deal site unveiled its newest feature: Yipit Nation. The feature aggregates the many nationwide deal sites across a range of different categories into one location, so that instead of signing up for Groupon and LivingSocial for your local deals, Lot18 for your wine deals, and Gilt Groupe for your ...

Online ad revenues hit record high

by Faith Merino, November 17, 2010 | Comments

A report finds that online ad revenue for Q3 2010 is up 17% from last year

In the last couple of weeks, reports have shown that the economy has grown by 2% this year and consumer spending is up by 2.6%. ComScore announced last week that the online display market saw a 22% increase in ad impressions in Q3 2010, compared to the same time last year. And the good news keeps getting better (knock on ...

LivingSocial invests $5M in Jump On it

by Faith Merino, November 17, 2010 | Comments

The Aussie group-deal site will allow LivingSocial to reach 1.2M Australian shoppers

Groupon’s arch-nemesis, LivingSocial, announced Wednesday that it is going to Australia: the company has invested $5 million for a controlling majority stake in Jump On It, Australia’s leading group-deal site. The Aussie social shopping company will be absorbed into LivingSocial’s branded Daily Deals, which makes LivingSocial’s offerings now accessible to shoppers in Australia, the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and the UK. ...

Vinod Khosla on innovation vs. punditry

by Faith Merino, November 17, 2010 | Comments

The founder of Khosla Ventures discusses how true innovation is unpredictable

At Tuesday afternoon's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, took the stage to discuss the difference between innovation and punditry. He started off by mentioning a 1986 study that forecasted that by the year 2000, there would be just under one million cell phones. They were off by 10,000%. There were 109 milllion cell ...

Carol Bartz on Yahoo, Facebook, and Google

by Faith Merino, November 16, 2010 | Comments

Bartz talks about competitors, partners, and what makes Yahoo different

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz just stepped off the stage following a lively interview that made me hope that she has an adult son that I can marry so she can be my mom. I think she would be a cool mother-in-law... The interview launched with the point-blank question: What is Yahoo? "This question has interested me because I think Yahoo ...

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