"It's a way better deal than Groupon," Kim said. "Also, advertisers can track this."
CEO Meg Whitman was cautiously optimistic about the results.
"This is the complete liberation of the brain from the physical constraints of the body," brain-machine interface scientist Miguel Nicolelis says.
Guest Post The Fishing Joy franchise, CocoaChina’s most successful title, is currently generating $4,000,000 USD of gross revenue per month, driven mostly by in-app purchases on Android devices.
Jeep's Twitter account recently told the world that the iconic brand had been "sold to Cadillac." And Burger King's account started mysteriously promoting McDonalds. Two high-profile hacks in less than a week means, apparently, that Twitter had to take some action.
Purpose of the call? To tell investors why each Apple shareholder should get perpetual preferred stock, for free.
Guest Post Apple Maps was the best thing ever to happen to Google Maps.
"The vast majority of organizations put their emergency information on paper," Summers says. "This is an opportunity to leverage networking technology for safety."
"If you can wipe your nose, you can be a VC," Singh said. "Please don't tweet that."
Mark Cuban might be an investment slut, but he's just as certainly a massive name that attracts a lot of attention -- not least from other investors. So when Aman Mann of Procurify cold-emailed him for an investment, he knew exactly what he was doing.
Pinterest has reportedly raised $200 million funding round that values the company at $2.5 billion. In other words, the rumors appear to be true.
Ahh, the chaos, excitement, sheer terror, and sometimes, sadly, ennui of demo day.
Advertising on Twitter just got easier, and Twitter just took a giant leap to making more money.
Twitter and HootSuite announced a new way of selling and managing promoted tweets, promoted trends, and promoted accounts: right in HootSuite's social media management dashboard.
Step aside, Nobel. You've got some competition in the prize category.
If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad ... and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development environment, Visual Studio.
Interoperability is beating closed systems.
Private company research firm Privco has ranked the top 20 merger and acquisitions of the top 20 technology VC firms of 2012, including Ancestry.com's $1.6 billion sale to private equity firm Permira and other top tech acquisitions such as Yammer, Meebo, Instagram, and NextG networks.
A picture might indeed be worth a thousand words as visual social networks Pinterest and Instagram continue to grow. But how do analytics change when photos say more than text?
The average angel is 47 years old, makes $90,000 a year, invests in one out of every 10 deals he sees, invests $37,000 in each deal, and lives in California. The halo and the wings? Those are just for show.
