The highest-paid CEO in America is some dude you’ve never heard of (infographic)

May 31, 2013 8:06 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

By comparison, Ralph Lauren (the brand) CEO Ralph Lauren pulls in a relatively paltry $66.6 million -- how will we buy that small European nation now, darling? -- and third-place finisher Michael D. Fascitelli of the Vornado Realty Trust banked $64.4 million.

WhitePages acquires Mr. Number, the phone-spam Android app with 7M downloads, to reduce phone spam

May 31, 2013 7:27 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

WhitePages has some big plans for integrating Mr. Number into its 50-million-unique-visitors-per-month website -- plans that should help you avoid spam calls.

Why the perfectly shareable Pinterest pin is a red or orange close-up product shot

May 30, 2013 5:02 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Visual analytics and marketing platform Curalate studied 500,000 images on Pinterest to discover what drives the most likes and repins. The results might surprise you.

Magzter passes 10M users, moves to NY, and signs up 20 new titles, including National Enquirer, Shape

May 30, 2013 3:20 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The number one magazine provider in Apple's Newstand has now added 20 new magazine from American Media to its stable of 1,800 magazines for digital sale.

Kickstarter will now let your friends tell you your idea sucks with Project Preview

May 30, 2013 2:55 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Kickstarter has just launched a new feature to let you get feedback from your friends before you submit your Kickstarter project to the Kickstarter gods. Once the project launches, all those feedback notes magically disappear.

Captricity raises $4.5M to turn handwritten documents into structured data

May 30, 2013 2:04 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Captricity has raised $4.5 million round from Chamath Palihapitiya's Social+Capital Partnership. The company provides data capture technology that quickly turns paper information into digital data.

Twitter users: Do you want a LinkedIn-style who-viewed-your-profile feature?

May 30, 2013 1:58 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said yesterday that company engineers can roll out any experimental features they're testing to one percent of the social network's users.

Groundfloor unveils ‘Lending Club for real-estate’ so you can get richer, faster (exclusive)

May 30, 2013 1:14 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Groundfloor is building a peer-to-peer platform that gives regular people opportunities to invest in real estate projects. It is emerging out of stealth mode today and opening up to private beta.

Beautylish dabs on $6.5M to grow community that really (really) loves cosmetics

May 30, 2013 11:49 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Beautylish is using mascara wands and lipstick tubes to attract the attention of investors. According to an SEC filing, the online beauty company has closed $6.5 million of a $8.64 million round.

Nuance pays $80M in cash for Tweddle Connect to build ‘safer, smarter connected cars’

May 30, 2013 10:39 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Connected cars may be the future, and voice technology company Nuance is shelling out $80 million for Tweddle Connect to enhance its connected car platform.

Twitter to launch automated ad exchange to let brands retarget you via tweets

May 30, 2013 9:45 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Twitter is planning to launch a Facebook Exchange-like service to allow brands to buy ads programmatically and retarget Twitter users based on their browsing and search history.

Twitter acquisition Crashlytics launches Android version to help developers build better apps

May 30, 2013 8:33 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The company, which launched on iOS just over a year ago to "deobfuscate" application crashes, helps developers find what's happening when their mobile apps freeze or unexpectedly quit. Besides Twitter, companies like Square, Kayak, Yelp, Path, and Yammer use Crashlytics.

BlueStacks’ GamePop Android console gets $50 worth of free games

May 30, 2013 7:00 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

BlueStacks is shoring up support for its GamePop Android console in a big way.