Startups: if you want to be bought by Facebook, now’s the time. But you better focus on design. Read More
What you need to know – 08/23/11
AliveCor, which makes it possible to use your iPhone Android as a personal heart rate monitor, has raised Read More
Twitter upgraded with full-fledged photo galleries
Any dual Instagram-Twitter fiends should be celebrating today, as their photos now have a much better home on Read More
Miramax eXperience streams movies on Facebook
Miramax on Monday launched its first-ever digital app, the Miramax eXperience, on the Facebook platform. Within the app, Read More
Facebook, Twitter and RIM to discuss London riots
Representatives from Facebook and Twitter will be meeting with RIM and the UK government this week, as officials Read More
Stealth travel startup Hopper announced Monday that it has closed $8 million in funding from Atlas Venture and Read More
What you need to know – 08/22/11
6fusion, a provider of utility-metered public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure management software and services, completed a $7 Read More
Microsoft-acquired Skype snaps up GroupMe
The big fish eats the medium fish and the medium fish swallows the small fish. Three months after Read More
Funding roundup – week ending 08/19/11
Seed-stage drchrono closed an additional $650,000 in seed funding from prominent startup investor Yuri Milner, founder of DST Read More
StumbleUpon bests Facebook in sharing… maybe
[UPDATED on 08/22/11 at 8:17 PDT to add additional comment from StatCounter. Read at bottom.] The social media Read More
German state bans Facebook pages and plugins
Social marketing is so awesome. Businesses love it, brands love it, even governments love it. Too bad some Read More
Over 20% of new active domains run WordPress
WordPress announced Friday that its open source blogging platform now powers 14.7 percent of the top million websites Read More
What you need to know – 08/19/11
Amazon says its Instant Video library has grown to more than 100,000 titles available for instant streaming—some five-times the Read More
Foursquare squeezes in events next to check-ins
Foursquare announced Thursday that it is getting in the events business. That is, after a couple years of Read More
Hot off funding, Evernote acquires Skitch image app
Everything-organizer Evernote announced Thursday that it has acquired image annotation application Skitch. Terms of the deal were not Read More












