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Google helps establish "Digital Due Process"

by Chris Caceres, March 30, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Google, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech companies aim to change online privacy laws

Google, along with several other major tech companies like Intel, Microsoft and Salesforce, have all joined forces to form the Digital Due Process. The full list of companies participating can be found here. The overall principles of the organization as stated on its Website are, "To simplify, clarify, and unify the ECPA standards, providing stronger privacy protections for communications and ...

CardStar raises $1 million

by Chris Caceres, March 30, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Startup wants to put all your store membership/discount cards into a mobile application

CardStar, a startup which builds a mobile app for storing reward and membership card information, has raised $1 million in Series A funding. Amplifier Ventures lead the round and was joined by Acta Wireless and LaunchCapital. CardStar recently graduated from Amplifier's Business Accelerator Program.CardStar is trying to eliminate a nuisance we've probably all become familiar with - carrying around a ...

Early iPod creator leaves Apple for good

by Ronny Kerr, March 30, 2010 | Comments

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Tony Fadell, previously iPod designer and CEO Steve Jobs adviser, steps down

After nine momentous years at Apple, one of the original creators of the iPod is departing Apple for good.Tony Fadell had stepped down from his position as senior vice president and head of the iPod division in November 2008, but he remained on Apple's payroll as adviser to CEO Steve Jobs. Before his work at Apple, Fadell founded a company ...

Webs brings Facebook Connect to DIY sites

by Matt Bowman, March 30, 2010 | Comments

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Veteran site-building tool erases registration process, beats Yola, Weebly, Ning to the punch

The younger your startup, the more innovative, usually. But sometimes the veterans surprise you. Webste builder Webs (formerly FreeWebs, founded way back in 2001), has enabled site builders to integrate Facebook Connect for site registration. That means if you create a website using Webs.com, visitors will be able to register for your site simply by using their Facebook username and ...

April 3 is coming: iPad launch five days away

by Ronny Kerr, March 29, 2010 | Comments (2)

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Apple's mythical tablet computer flies from legend into reality in just a few days, hype keeps going

The launch of the Apple iPad is less than a week away. By Saturday, April 3, some lucky Apple fans will be happily swiping left, right, and all-around on their brand new Mac tablets. Here's a round-up of the latest on iPad news and announcements:--Customers who have already pre-ordered the iPad through the Apple Store online have begun receiving shipping ...

Smish scores $2 million

by Chris Caceres, March 29, 2010 | Comments (2)

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Startup wants to build an app store for your desktop

Smish, a platform for distributing apps on PC's and netbooks, has raised $2 million. The startup would not share who the investor was but did say they had previously raised $2 million. Based out of Aliso Viejo, California, the startup said it has built a destination for apps. It's not your typical mobile apps though, as we've all become familiar ...

Quora raises rumored $11M for elite Q&A site

by Matt Bowman, March 29, 2010 | Comments (2)

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Former Facebook execs and managers team up to get the rest of what's in your head & put it online

Question and Answer sites are not new (think Yahoo Answers), but it’s as though Silicon Valley just rediscovered them. Formspring.me took off last November with the “citizen” version, ChaCha launched the celebrity-centric iteration, and now former Facebook employees have raised big money for the elite edition.Quora, which currently operates in closed beta, just landed a first round of funding from ...

Scripped acquires Zhura and raises $250K

by Ronny Kerr, March 29, 2010 | Comments

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Free screenwriting software service gobbles up another and doubles its user base

Scripped, developer of an online screenwriting solution, has acquired one of its competitors, Zhura, for an undisclosed amount, though Scripped reports it to be in the millions. In joining forces, Scripped doubles the size of its community to 60,000 users.Scripped has also just raised $250,000 from private angel investors.President and co-founder Sunil Rajaraman retains his position as CEO, while Break ...

Bing beating Google all over the maps

by Matt Bowman, March 26, 2010 | Comments (1)

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It can't hold a candle to Google's streetview penetration, but Bing's winning the feature war.

In return for a hefty ticket price, the annual TED conference in Palm Springs and Long Beach, CA, inebriates its audience with inspiration, wonder, and warm fuzzies. By the time the attendees sit through a morning's worth of sessions, each gasp of fascination becomes harder to elicit. Drawing one is good; getting several is a feat. This year, the gasp ...

Facebook fuels hype over location features

by Ronny Kerr, March 26, 2010 | Comments

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Along with location, new privacy policy changes will affect contact syncing, personal data sharing

Facebook on Friday announced a set of changes to its privacy policy suggesting new location features, new ways of controlling data sharing with applications, and the possibility of certain Web services automatically signing in users with Facebook Connect."We're proposing another set of revisions to our Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to make way for some exciting new ...

What Uncle Sam, the VC, wants to fund

by Matt Bowman, March 26, 2010 | Comments

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America's CTO Aneesh Chopra mentions 3 kinds of startups the government is interested in

Last year, the appointment of America’s First CTO gave the notoriously free-market, fiscally conservative investors of Silicon Valley a single liaison with the federal government: Aneesh Chopra. Chopra took the stage this morning at the Global Technology Symposium for a fireside chat, with Hummer Winblad Managing Director Mark Gorenberg representing the Valley. Chopra mentioned a few areas where Uncle Sam ...

Nokia acquires Novarra

by Chris Caceres, March 26, 2010 | Comments

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Plans to use Novarra's mobile browser and platform to enhance experience on its devices

Nokia announced on Friday it has acquired Novarra, a provider of a mobile browser and service platform. The Chicago-based company has around 100 employees and has been in business since 2000. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.As Nokia tries to maintain a solid position in the mobile device space, acquisitions like these make sense. Like other cellphone companies, ...

The changing face of Hollywood

by Matt Bowman, March 26, 2010 | Comments

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Tinseltown is rearranging itself to produce bigger but fewer blockbusters.

Hollywood is coming out of hibernation. After two years of almost no deals, Warner Brothers is thinking of buying MGM for up to $1.5 billion, Liberty is looking to sell Overture for $100 million, Disney wants to sell Miramax for $700 million, and Media Rights Capital wants to buy Focus Features.So why all the activity? For one, big studios like Disney ...

Wordpress profiles powered by Gravatar

by Ronny Kerr, March 26, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Automatically granting its users fancier profiles, WordPress could be incubating a social network

WordPress, probably the most well-known open source blog publishing application, is turning to Gravatar, a little-known service that provides globally-unique avatars, to give its users a new and improved way of customizing their profiles.Previously, profiles on WordPress had been rudimentary and pretty unexciting."What if your Gravatar wasn’t just an image that showed up when you comment, but you could attach ...

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