Today, an Australian teenage girl’s indiscreet Facebook post led to a break-in and robbery at her mother’s home.
The girl, 17, had been helping her grandmother count the 72-year-old woman’s personal savings. Apparently wishing to impress her friends and the …
Incubators are like belly buttons: Everybody’s got one.
Or so it seems from where we sit in San Francisco, where if one throws a rock in certain neighborhoods, one is sure to hit an incubator or accelerator or at least …
Huddle, the startup that’s bringing simple tools for collaboration to huge companies around the world, has just sealed a sweet deal: $24 million in new venture capital.
This is Huddle’s third round of institutional funding. Jafco Ventures led the round, …
Bump has done it again. The simple app that lets you “bump” phones together to swap data and files is now letting you do the same thing with your phone and a computer.
Starting today, you can bump photos from …
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Everyone knows it, but few people acknowledge it: Mobile web browsers absolutely suck. Technologists are launching commercial space flights, mapping the human genome, and building flexible computer displays, yet we still haven’t figured out the right way to use a …
If you use your iPad for work, have we got a haul for you. DocStoc has just dumped a massive hoard of iPad apps for business users onto the App Store, and they’re all free.
The apps will also work …
Two of the more interesting companies on the mobile-development landscape are announcing a new deal for developers today, and will be making great tools for location-based apps available for free.
If you’re into mobile development, Appcelerator and Geoloqi are probably …
Building up to the summer games in London, the Olympics has partnered with Foursquare to bring fans and athletes closer together, almost literally.
The partnership means that fans will start to see a new badge connected to Olympics venues, as …
Today, Salesforce is further beefing up its line of enterprise products with a new IM client and screensharing software.
The instant messaging comes via Chatter, Salesforce’s Facebook-like, Yammer-esque collaboration and task-management app. The IM client is cloud-based (so no need …
GitHub has maintained a long and profitable love affair with all things Apple, but today, the folks behind the most popular code repository site are sullying their allegiance to Cupertino with — get ready to gasp and clutch your pearls …
Hoo boy, anything tech-related that happened over this past week was dwarfed into oblivion by Facebook’s IPO.
Many of us were expecting a glorious event with massive profits for early shareholders, but the day’s events ended in disappointment.
The stock …
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Before Friday, almost every Silicon Valley insider was saying Facebook stock would finish its first day between $50 and $60 per share.
In reality, the share price at the closing bell was a pathetic $38.37.
How were these masters of …
So, Facebook is now public, and it got off to the most unimaginable and inauspicious start, losing $4 between the NASDAQ’s opening and closing bells.
But don’t go jumping out any windows just yet.
There’s no question that the IPO …
At the end of Facebook’s first day of public trading, its shares were selling for around 9.5 percent less than their opening price.
By the time the closing bell rang, the stock ticker symbol FB sat at $38.37, according to …
You know what they say about a rising tide lifting all the boats. Well, the same goes for a waning tide, apparently.
As Facebook stock dips lower and lower in early trading, at times as low as its $38 initial …
Facebook shares are trading publicly for the first time ever today, and so far, we’re seeing small fluctuations in share price.
As of 11:30 Eastern time, trading had commenced at $42. Throughout the mornings, shares traded between $40 and $41. …
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We’ve spent hours talking to and corresponding with analysts and VCs about the Facebook IPO over the past few days, and we couldn’t resist asking each of them a rather personal question: Expert commentary aside, would they, themselves, be buying …
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The timing couldn’t have been worse. On the week of its IPO, Facebook saw one of its largest advertisers, General Motors, get up and leave the table, likely taking millions of dollars with it.
The move prompted a swirl of …
Foodspotting, once a repository for food porn, is branching out today with a new launch. The mobile app is now serving up personalized menus just for you, everywhere you go.
“We’re trying to be a picture menu for every restaurant, …
Flexible screens, wearable computers, conductive ink, wires that move like muscles: These are the materials that will make up the gadgets of the future, and they’re being dreamed up and developed in do-it-yourself hacker labs and garages all around the …
