Anthony Ha
Anthony Ha writes about enterprise technology, cloud computing, tech policy, and random cool startups. Before joining VentureBeat in January 2008, he worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. Anthony attended Stanford University from 2001 to 2006, and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com.
Recent Posts
Contact service Yes.tel wants to bury the business card
Yes.tel, a new service created by a startup called Digitrad, offers an easy way to store and share all your contact info. In doing so, it wants to help our society get past one of the more obnoxious holdovers from the pre-Internet age — the… Continue Reading
New version of Foursquare reminds you where your friends are — constantly
Foursquare just released a new version of its mobile application for sharing your location with friends — including a new feature that should make the app a much bigger presence in users’ lives. Taking advantage of new options in the iPhone’s operating system, Foursquare 1.3… Continue Reading
Recordnet.com tries to save Stockton’s Fourth of July
Who says newspapers aren’t embracing the Internet? Stockton, a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, had to cancel its July 4 fireworks celebration due to a tight budget. Don’t worry, though — the town’s paper is using the web to bring a a little light… Continue Reading
Fire takes down Authorize.net, halting e-commerce for many
A fire in Seattle’s Fisher Plaza appears to have taken down Authorize.net, a service used by online businesses to process credit card and electronic check payments.
That’s a big problem for any vendor using Authorize.net, since this basically means they can’t accept payments through their… Continue Reading
Real estate site Trulia says traffic is still growing
Trulia, the real estate website backed by prominent venture firms Sequoia Capital and Accel, published some numbers today showing that despite continued problems in the housing market and the general economy, the San Francisco startup has been having a strong 2009.
That continues a pattern… Continue Reading
New Twine interface lets users visualize shared bookmarks
Social bookmarking service Twine attracted a lot of attention as an early poster boy for semantic technology, which it uses to help serve you links customized to your interests. But in addition to delivering smarter bookmarks, Twine just unveiled a better interface for exploring that… Continue Reading
Apple patent could offer hope to iPhone touchscreen haters
One of the earliest and most constant complaints about the iPhone has been its touchscreen keyboard. While these comments seem to have died down a bit, I still hear from BlackBerry loyalists and inveterate SMS texters that the iPhone keyboard just doesn’t provide enough feedback…. Continue Reading
Apple-exec-turned-VC sees big opportunity in mobile infrastructure
Bob Borchers, who led Apple’s marketing efforts for the iPod and then the iPhone over the past five years (and even appeared in iPhone videos), recently made the leap to venture capital, becoming a general partner at Opus Capital. Yesterday, I had a chance to… Continue Reading
Does Google Apps break Microsoft Outlook? Not anymore
Those of you who get uncomfortable around confrontations and arguments may be able to breathe a little easier now — it looks like Google has resolved a recent spat between the search giant and Microsoft peaceably, with a bug fix.
The trouble started when Google… Continue Reading
Firefox 3.5 takes you back to a time before browser add-ons
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There’s been a lot of activity in the web browser market during the year since Mozilla released Firefox 3 — we’ve seen the release of Safari 4 and Internet Exporer 8, and Google has entered the competition with Chrome. Now Mozilla has a new… Continue Reading
Cardiac device maker VytronUS raises another $11M
VytronUS, a medical device startup that remains secretive about its product, has raised another $11 million in its first round of funding, according to VentureWire. That new money, from existing investors Delphi Ventures and New Enterprise Associates, brings the total amount raised to $17 million…. Continue Reading
New version of OffiSync brings more Google into Microsoft Office
OffiSync has already gotten positive press for its integration of online word processor Google Docs with Microsoft Word. The Seattle company is taking that integration further with the now-available version 2, by adding Google web search and image search.
VentureBeat writer Dean Takahashi said he… Continue Reading
Yahoo shelving Maven Networks’ video platform
Updated with comments from Yahoo
Yahoo reportedly plans to shut down the video platform built by Maven Networks, the video startup Yahoo acquired for $160 million at the beginning of 2008, according to TechCrunch.
Maven offers video hosting and ad insertion to large media companies…. Continue Reading
SpaceX raising another $60M for private space travel
Space travel company Space Exploration Technologies Corp., better known as SpaceX, has raised $15 million of a new funding round, according to VentureWire. The round may eventually grow to $60 million. VentureWire first spotted the news in a regulatory filing and has confirmed the news… Continue Reading
Google aims for less developed nations with Google SMS
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Google is launching a new service called Google SMS today, hoping to reach a less privileged audience than the one using its web services.
Those of us with smartphones probably access Google on our mobile devices already, but usually as a supplement to usage… Continue Reading
Apple kills Routesy app, my iPhone gets less useful
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The fuss continues over Apple’s capricious acceptance policy for its iPhone/iPod Touch App Store, most recently with the rejection of an app called Hottest Girls. But for me and a few other San Franciscans, there’s a much bigger cause of outrage — the disappearance… Continue Reading
Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come
In the past, Seesmic (sometimes known as “the Twitter of video“) had its share of detractors who wondered whether it could build a business around video conversations and comments. Now it looks like Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur has joined their ranks.
Le Meur’s remarks… Continue Reading
iPhone gives new life to old HP calculators
Hewlett Packard has just released iPhone versions of two of its classic calculators from the 1980s — the 12C financial calculator and the 15C scientific calculator — with a third, the 12C Platinum, planned for August.
These apps are pretty much identical replicas, according to… Continue Reading
Who uses cloud computing? Startups do, VCs don’t
Cloud computing is a trendy term right now, but how widely is it actually used? During the venture capital panel at today’s Structure 09 conference in San Francisco, VCs offered two pieces of anecdotal data that create a nice contrast between who is and isn’t… Continue Reading
Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: The future of computing looks like Twitter
Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, told attendees at today’s Structure 09 conference in San Francisco that the world of business software and infrastructure is starting to see the same craze for real-time results that’s taking over web search. And he extolled the… Continue Reading