ModCloth, an online retailer that specializes in an indie-retro clothing style, has announced a $19.8 million Series B funding round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Floodgate and First Round Capital.
Accel’s Theresia Gouw Ranzetta will join ModCloth’s …
Woot CEO Matt Rutledge posted this doctored photo of himself and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as part of a very funny blog post announcing that Amazon has bought Woot for an undisclosed price. Rutledge says that Woot will continue to …
A Nielsen study which tracks 60,000 U.S. phone bills every month says that most smartphone users don’t take full advantage of their phones’ data features. A small fraction of customers account for most of America’s data network traffic, while one …
Yahoo is marking the fifth birthday, more or less, of its Hadoop technology. The open-source software allows Java programmers to process large amounts of data using distributed computing techniques. Inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google File System, which make it …
Owners of Google Nexus One phones have begun receiving updates to version 2.2 of the Android operating system, Google’s open source platform that is also used by Motorola and HTC. As shown in a Google marketing video meant for Android …
A leaked set of Microsoft slides meant for PC-making partners details Microsoft’s plans, goals, and dreams for Windows 8, the next version of the company’s ubiquitous operating system that, at this point, has no set release date.
The Microsoft Kitchen …
A big chunk of the new wireless broadband spectrum that President Obama wants to make available in the next five years would come from television broadcasters, who will be asked to give up radio spectrum slots for which they have …
Two decisions published in PDF format today by the United States Supreme Court are carefully written to make clear that neither of the two will change the way business is done in America.
In the more strategic case, the Court …
If you’re not a heavy Flickr user, you might not spot the changes in the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing service’s forthcoming redesign, to which you can opt in now. Click on the screenshot at right to see it full size. The old …
Sometime next year, Facebook’s billionth customer will sign up, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told an audience at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in the south of France.
British newspaper the Guardian reported that Zuckerberg said there was “no chance” of …
“Most ad networks know that direct response is still where the money is when it comes to display,” writes PaidContent’s David Kaplan. What he means is that advertisers will pay more for ads that cause customers to click, rather than …
Sand Hill Road firm Andreessen Horowitz, founded a year ago by dotcom-era poster child Marc Andreessen and his former Netscape coworker Ben Horowitz, seems to be staffing up for Web 3.0. They’ve recently hired executive search expert Jeffrey Stump to …
Brian Chesky is the chief executive of Airbnb, a marketplace where people with spare rooms to rent meet travelers looking for a cheap place to stay. Chesky started Airbnb in 2007, running the business from a three-bedroom apartment in San …
Here’s the rumor roundup up on prominent startup blog TechCrunch and founder-editor Mike Arrington’s recent moves: In May, after five years in the Valley, Arrington relocated to the Seattle area, where he has family. He jokes about being a Seattle …
According to Reuters, Affirmed Networks Inc., a Waltham, Mass. stealth telecom startup, has secured $10.89 million of an $11.52 million funding round. Backers include Charles River Ventures, at whose office the company is being incubated, and Matrix Partners. The …
Mobile entertainment technology maker Telegent, which canceled its IPO last month, has brought on board an accomplished CEO who plans to make the firm a billion-dollar company. Don’t laugh; he’s pulled off feats like this several times already.
Ford Tamer …
Ten years ago, Quark was the tool of choice for producing Wired magazine and many other high-production-value publications. Since then, Adobe’s less expensive, aggressively competitive InDesign has stolen a lot of Quark’s customers.
Now, Quark is making a move to …
San Francisco, home base of the Internet’s startup economy, is close to passing a law that will cast the city as either a leader on public health, a town full of crazies, or probably both.
The city’s Board of Supervisors …
It’s OK if you don’t know what SIEM — security information and event manager — is. What matters is that SIEM vendors enable companies to centralize, store and make use of large volumes of data created by the computers on …
Apple’s next challenger is here. The Motorola Droid X that Verizon planned to announce next week turned up on Engadget today. How does the next Android superphone stack up to a new iPhone?
Size — Droid X is notably bigger
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