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Yahoo buys PlayerScale - ninth startup in...

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by Steven Loeb - May 23, 2013
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BlackBerry CEO says tablets will be obsolete in 5 years

by Faith Merino, April 30, 2013 | Comments

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Heins isn't worried about BlackBerry's future in tablets because he doesn't see a future for tablets

As you might recall, the PlayBook didn’t really work out for BlackBerry. The company had to take a charge of $485 million to write down unsold inventory after only selling some 150,000 devices in Q3 2012. Now it looks like CEO Thorsten Heins is playing it cool by saying, “meh, tablets are all whatever.” (That’s me paraphrasing, btw.) In an ...

Twitter opens ad platform to all U.S. businesses

by Steven Loeb, April 30, 2013 | Comments

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Twitter Ads gives small businesses access to Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts

In March of last year, Twitter debuted its self-service ad platform to give small businesses access to Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts to help them grow their business. The program was only made availabile to select businesses, who could access it through invite only. Now, a year later, Twitter has finally opened Twitter Ads to any company that wants to use ...

Finect launches as a LinkedIn for financial services

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 30, 2013 | Comments

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NY-based startup wants to be the 'compliant' focused social network for advisors, asset managers

The financial industry is ripe for social innovation and NY-based Finect wants to be leading the charge when it comes to servicing the financial services industry. Finect, which was founded last year, officially launches Tuesday as a professional network for financial service providers, such as investment advisors and asset managers. It's meant to address the growing need for the highly-regulated finance ...

Path reaches 10 million users and counting

by Steven Loeb, April 29, 2013 | Comments

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Path has added seven million users in less than a year, adding one million more a month

Path, the social network built around exclusivity, might not be in the big leagues yet, but it is getting there, passing an important milestone Monday. Path has reached 10 million users, it was revealed in a tweet put out by the company: — Path (@path) April 29, 2013 Dave Morin, the company's founder and CEO, also tweeted the news. — ...

Madison Color gets $4M for personal hair-care delivery

by Steven Loeb, April 29, 2013 | Comments

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Former Maveron VC Amy Errett tackles the hair care business with online subscription service

(Updated to reflect comment from Madison Color) Subscription commerce is a space that is heating up very quickly. There startups for virtually anything you can imagine, from shoes, clothes, craft kits, and educational kid’s toys, to makeup, snacks, tampons, green living, condoms, and sex toys. Things you are either too embarrassed, or too lazy, to go to the store to get yourself. I know plenty ...

Google Now makes its way onto iOS

by Steven Loeb, April 29, 2013 | Comments

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The personal assistant is available on the Google Search app, and is now a direct competitor to Siri

Just as it did with its Maps app, Google is once again looking to take Apple head on on its own turf. And, this time, it is going to be taking on one of Apple's most recognizable features. Google Now, the company's answer to Apple's Siri personal assistant, is now being made available on iOS via an update to the Google ...

Say adios to the Meebo Bar on June 6th

by Steven Loeb, April 29, 2013 | Comments

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Google is dropping the service to focus on Google+ Sign-In and plug-ins

When Google purchased Meebo in June of last year, for a reported $100 million, it shut down nearly all of Meebo's products, including Meebo Messenger, Sharing on Meebo, Meebo Me, and all of Meebo’s apps. In fact, the only Meebo service that continued to operate was the Meebo Bar, which allows users to build an “interest profile” by favoriting things they like on different websites. ...

Is it too soon to call Facebook Home a dud?

by Steven Loeb, April 27, 2013 | Comments

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The app is only two weeks old, but some are already counting it out

Earlier this week, Home passed the 500,000 installs number on Google Play. While that might seem like an impressive number, the fact is that it took over a week for the app to get there, and this inevitably led many to compare it, mostly unfavorably, to Instagram, which passed one million Android users in a single day. The thinking goes, if one Facebook ...

2015: Brand loyalty will launch iPhone ahead of Android

by Faith Merino, April 26, 2013 | Comments

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Analyst predicts iPhone will eclipse Android's market share within two years

The brand loyalty consumers feel toward Apple is the stuff of legends. Countless studies have shown that people who buy one Apple product tend to buy other Apple products. And people who own one Apple product tend to upgrade to other Apple products. And that brand loyalty alone might be enough to help Apple’s iPhone eclipse Android’s market share in ...

Kismet launches Blink for group messaging that expires

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 26, 2013 | Comments

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Mobile discovery and group messaging app banks on people wanting privacy

In the old days on the Internet, anonymity reigned supreme. The adage "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" coined in 1993, captured a moment in time when people could hide behind a different persona on the Web. Today, that's all changed. Every thought, photo, relationship, interest can and is often captured and exposed on the Web. ...

Twitter said to be toying with local discovery

by Steven Loeb, April 25, 2013 | Comments

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New feature would allow users to see tweets of people they do not follow within a certain radius

As we have seen time and again, Twitter has become the go-to place for breaking news around the world, whether it be riots in Iran, the overthrow of the Egyptian government, Hurricane Sandy this past Fall or even the recent events in Boston. But is there a better way for Twitter to inform me on the happenings near me? Apparently, Twitter is trying ...

Google content removal requests at highest level yet

by Steven Loeb, April 25, 2013 | Comments

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Google cites Brazil, Russia and "Innocence of Muslims" video as reasons behind spike

The Internet has made the world more open, allowing for a freer expression of ideas, both good and bad. For every site that does some good by exposing something that people really should know, there is another site dedicated to some wild-eyed conspiracy on the same subject. But that's the price we pay for free expression. Governments around the world, ...

Spreecast gets its mobile on

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 25, 2013 | Comments

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Jeff Fluhr's interactive video platform now available on the iPhone

We all hear the statistics: TV viewing is shifting from the TV to laptops, tablets and mobile devices. For instance, people who own tablets watch 30% more video than those on a laptop, we reported last year. And about nine out of 10 people with a mobile device are on their phones while watching TV, according to Nielsen study last year. ...

Yahoo gets exclusive rights to 38 years of SNL video

by Steven Loeb, April 25, 2013 | Comments

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Deal also includes musical performances, behind-the-scenes clips, and dress rehearsal sketches

Live from New York, it's... Yahoo? Yahoo has inked a deal with Broadway Video Entertainment to bring Saturday Night Live's entire video archive exclusively to Yahoo, it was announced Wednesday. Beginning on September 1st of this year, Yahoo will be given access to SNL's entire library of show clips from all of the show's 38 seasons, which ran between 1975 and 2013; ...

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