Six-year-old, storytelling and reading community Wattpad has raised the eyebrows of investors anxious to see how the startup’s plot unfolds. The cost for penning Wattpad’s next chapter? Just $17.3 million in cash.
Khosla Ventures led the $17.3 million Series B …
If your startup is about to go public, Facebook’s less than pleasing debut is probably raining on your parade. But for those still looking for funding, it’s been a good week and an even better month.
Today, venture capital firm …
The awesome HBO Go service has landed on Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, but like Jon Snow at The Wall, all other Android tablet owners are still out in the cold.
HBO Go’s service gives HBO subscribers access to the premium …
The Nasdaq plans to give $40 million to the Facebook investors who lost money when the stock exchange suffered a technical malfunction on May 18, delaying the social network’s IPO.
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Nasdaq had …
Today is IPv6 Day, a geeky holiday that celebrates the web’s transition to Internet Protocol version 6. There’s been a great deal of lead up to today, and much of it has been preceded by a crisis: The Internet is …
You’ve likely never heard of Giftango, but the provider of a digital gift card platform for retailers and businesses is becoming an increasingly essential company for mobile shopping and e-commerce. Today the company announced that Shopkick, makers of the mobile …
Larry Bird is dead. No, not the basketball legend of Celtics fame, but the other Bird. Twitter’s practically iconic Larry the Bird, the little blue symbol of the information network for the past six years, has been buried and replaced …
Google has announced the newest hotness for Google Maps: offline mapping for Android and an insane wearable Street View camera (meaning more Street View images than before).
For Google Earth, the company is outfitting airplanes with Street View-like camera gear …
If the message of the massive Airtime launch yesterday was that meeting new people is the new new thing, Imo.im has a comeback: Chatroulette’s 15 minutes of fame are over for a reason, and it wasn’t just the johnson problem.…
Shopping for the next e-commerce hit, investors have spent $2 million on budding startup Wanelo, an online shopping community where regular people share their uncommon finds.
Wanelo, a blend of the words “want, need, love,” is a combination of product-inspiration …
One feature that’s been noticeably absent from Google TV, Google’s connected-TV platform, is something akin to Apple’s AirPlay, which allows iPad and iPhone the ability to stream content directly to Apple TV. But the little-known Taiwanese manufacturer Honeywld is working …
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With the launch of its next operating system looming, Microsoft took to the stage at Computex 2012 to talk about the success of Windows 7.
The company revealed that its sold over 600 million Windows 7 licenses to date, which …
If you’re a publisher looking to reach as many consumers as possible, web sharing platform ShareThis may have just the answer. The company, which has made a name for itself by making it easy for readers to share online content …
If you’re like me and happened to miss out on watching Venus’ transit crossing the Sun yesterday, NASA has come to rescue with an incredible ultra-HD video of the event.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft recorded images of the …
Scott Moffitt is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at Nintendo. He’s got a tough job because video game marketing is changing. Nintendo is trying to sell its 3DS gaming handheld in the face of huge competition from …
It’s been a tough morning for the professional network LinkedIn when it comes to security. A hacker has stolen and published around 6.5 million hashed passwords from the company, following security revelations regarding the way LinkedIn’s mobile app handles your …
Yellow cabs are everywhere in New York. You stand on a corner, hold up your hand, and suddenly one appears to take you wherever you need to go. Israel-based GetTaxi still sees room for improvement, however, and has raised $20 …
Delphix, a startup that exists at the boring-to-consumers-but-otherwise-a-total-goldmine intersection between cloud computing and big data, has just dried the ink on a healthy funding deal — one that brings tech heavyweights like Battery, Greylock, and Lightspeed to the table.
This …
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