Here’s how easy it is to brick a Tesla
If you own a Tesla and want to turn your shiniest toy into a useless brick, all you have to do is park it.
As soon as the battery is fully discharged, you have a useless, albeit pricey, hunk of …
stories by Jolie O'Dell
What’s in your startup’s information diet?
Guest Post
Technology startups and political campaigns are roughly the same thing: smart, driven people get together to make something that they think is useful happen for the world.
Chances are that the campaign staffers for Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Barack …
What to expect when you’re expecting a Facebook IPO
Everyone’s been frothing at the mouth over the past few weeks over Facebook’s imminent IPO, and we’ve never been more hungry for details. When will the shares be offered for public sale? How much will they cost?
While Facebook left …
Huddle gets in sync with new, enterprise-grade file-syncing tools
Cloud collaboration startup Huddle has unveiled an intelligent file synchronization tool called Sync intended for use in large enterprises.
Huddle Sync, currently in private beta, is intended to let every worker in an organization gain secure access to the company’s …
Apple to sue bankrupt Proview over iPad trademark kerfuffle
Apple is threatening to sue Proview, the bankrupt firm that once held the iPad trademark.
The two companies have been squabbling back and forth over the past few weeks over which actually held the right to the iPad name in …
Fab.com acquires German clone Casacanda, now serving Europe
Fab.com, the wildly popular design-focused e-commerce site, has just acquired Casacanda, a German startup offering “an online shopping club for daily design inspirations.”
If that mission statement sounds familiar, it’s not just you. The Fab.com team saw the similarities as …
Google Fiber readies an army of satellite antennae for super-fast web service
Google is preparing to build a huge antenna farm in Iowa, just a few hundred miles from Kansas City, where the company is rolling out its high-speed Internet project, Google Fiber.
The search company, which lately has been focusing on …
Alibaba.com to go private, raising funds to buy back its stock
Alibaba Group is raising $3 billion — not to buy back the 40 percent stake Yahoo holds in the parent company, as previously rumored, but to buy back the 27 percent of Alibaba.com stock currently floating around the public market.…
Google buys what’s left of defunct search startup Cuil
Google has acquired what’s left of Cuil, a once-promising search startup that closed up shop about a year and a half ago.
The startup, which was founded by two former Googlers and an IBM employee, has relinquished control of its …
Thanks for the get-out-of-jail-free card, Google (video)
And now, it’s time for a few tasteful jokes (and at least one tasteless one) about the week’s tech headlines.
Here are the stories we highlighted this week:
Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz launched a startup focused on caregivers. Microsoft
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Music-loving hackers make the ultimate mashups between big data & sound
Guest Post
“Big data” is everywhere you look these days.
As digital information continues to expand exponentially, this affects everything — how much we pay for health insurance, how we predict the weather, how we play the stock market.
The music industry …
Competitive hiring: Why startups win at recruitment
Guest Post
When it comes to bringing in the right talent, we tend to think that big-name brands have it easy — or at least easier.
High-caliber candidates flock to top-tier organizations like Google and Microsoft, reducing the recruitment process to a …
Flickr co-founder announces newest startup & newest funding
Caterina Fake (pictured), who previously co-founded photo-sharing megalith Flickr, has just taken the wraps off Pinwheel, her brand-new app.
Pinwheel is currently in private beta; Fake says it’s a way to “find and leave notes all over the world… A …
Yelp will start its IPO at $12-$14 per share
Yelp has amended its SEC S-1 filing to show a starting price of $12 to $14 per share of Yelp stock.
The shares will make their debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol YELP.
The most recent …
Amazon is building a 3M square-foot campus of towers
Amazon is buying up real estate in three city blocks in Seattle and plans to build a million-square-foot office tower on each block.
The company signed a purchase-and-sale agreement with the property owners several weeks ago, and that agreement included …
Rackspace to add SharePoint services with strategic acquisition
In a strategic move to appeal to clients of Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration platform, website hosting company Rackspace has acquired SharePoint911, a SharePoint consultancy.
With this acquisition, Rackspace will be adding more SharePoint support to its already robust suite of cloud …
Photo site programmer may be executed in Iran “at any moment”
Saeed Malekpour, an Canadian resident who designed and maintained a photo-sharing web app, may be executed at any moment in Iran.
According to a site about Malekpour’s case, the programmer’s death sentence, which was issued by the Iranian Supreme Court …
Bump 3.0 launches today, pared down to just 2 features
In a refreshing about-face from mobile apps’ usual version-to-version progression, the team behind phone-to-phone sharing app Bump has amputated all extraneous features from the app, mercilessly whittling it down to only two functions.
The Bump makers saw that most of …
Flexible screens, here we come! C3Nano raises $6.7M for next-gen displays
C3Nano, a company that makes the technology behind some of those transparent, flexible screens y’all are so crazy about, has just announced a $6.7 million round of funding.
The young company’s carbon hybrid-based ink and film is currently under evaluation …
Pinterest, Fab, and other apps see huge growth using Facebook Actions
In the wake of Facebook’s implementation of Actions, a new way for third-party applications to get their data into your Timeline, many apps are seeing staggering new growth stats.
Already-popular traffic hounds such as Pinterest, Fab.com, Foodspotting, Pose, and several …
