A lot of things were said in 2012, but few of them were as funny, interesting, or profound as the quotes from these tech luminaries.
With outlandish lawsuits, a botched IPO, and a detailed social record of historic world events, 2012 will be remembered as a year of extreme highs and lows in social media. Here are the top 10 social stories that defined the year.
Legal proceedings tend to be pretty dull, but the one filed against Color yesterday is a major exception.
A notice on Color's website confirms what we've known for weeks: The company and its photo-sharing app are dead, dead, dead.
With accusations of threats and intimidation, the Color story is getting more and more interesting by the day.
Guest Post Color's patents may not be as valuable as the company hopes.
Guest Post It’s appalling what passes for “successful entrepreneurship” in the press or the Valley, but it’s not their fault.
Editor's Pick What's going on at Color? No one, not even Color itself, seems to know.
After a $40M fundraise last year, Color may be closing up shop.
Forty-one million dollars in funding should be a blessing. For troubled Silicon Valley startup Color, which launched with a bang a year-and-a-half ago, the substantial investment seems to have been more of curse.
The first fruits of a multi-year deal with Verizon are starting to pay off for live video-broadcasting startup Color. Thanks to Verizon’s match-making skills, sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live will be using Color to broadcast unscripted, backstage footage to …
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Color me crazy, but serial entrepreneur and quixotic Silicon Valley character Bill Nguyen could be on to something big. A partnership announced today between his flagging startup Color and prominent wireless carrier Verizon is, at the very least, no small …
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In the past week, two high-profile mobile apps were effectively shut down and acquired – Hipster by Aol and Oink by Google. Both had big PR buildups, rave reviews from the tech press, and strong usage from the digerati.
What …
What if you could walk past people and know who they were, or find out if you have a mutual friend without having to introduce yourself? An app for that launches today.
Highlight is the creation of Paul Davidson, the …
The past year in technology was pretty wild.
The really big Internet IPO returned and the massive venture capital funding bubble inflated, which seems difficult considering that the venture capital industry is far smaller than it was three years ago. …
Color was once an iPhone app for sharing photos with people near you. Now, founder Bill Nguyen says it’s a Facebook app for sharing photos and video.
Nguyen told the New York Times that in spite of a buzz-laden launch, …
DJ Patil, the former chief product officer of photo-sharing startup Color, announced today that he is joining LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman at venture capital firm Greylock Partners.
Patil will remain as an advisor at Color, but he will no longer …
He has $1 million in the bank, a promising new company and a rolodex that makes Silicon Valley swoon.
“Hang on, I’ve got to take this,” says 19 year-old Cory Levy. “Hi, Mom.”
I’m interviewing Levy in our office when …
Remember Color? Back in March, the mobile startup caused a stir when it raised $41 million — an awfully big funding for a mobile app. Since then, little has emerged from the company beyond a handwritten note on the company’s …
It looks like mobile photo- and video-sharing startup Color has lost one of its seven co-founders: Peter Pham, the company’s president.
Along with its massive, $41 million round of funding, the Palo Alto, Calif. company’s long lineup of founders was …
