Mixin, a social video startup, is coming out of stealth mode today with a personal video sharing technology and more than 200,000 users.
The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company allows users to mix their personal comments into online videos and then …
Game startup Disruptor Beam has announced today the first Facebook game based on the award-winning novels by George R.R. Martin and the award-winning television show on HBO. Titled Game of Thrones Ascent, it is slated for an unspecified “future release” …
Anyone who has wanted to point their finger at their computer to make something happen will appreciate the Leap, a new motion control peripheral from startup Leap Motion. The small aluminum device uses finger waves and hand gestures to interact …
Yahoo and Alibaba have finally hashed out terms that will see Yahoo sell back half of its stake in the Chinese e-commerce site in a $7 billion deal, according to an AllThingsD report.
Yahoo will sell half of its 40 …
Nasdaq chief exec Robert Greifeld admitted Sunday that the exchange was at fault for some glitches in early trading of Facebook’s IPO but said it had nothing to do with the stock’s uninspired performance.
Social networking service Facebook went public …
Microsoft has officially launched an “experimental” social networking site called So.cl, which combines facets of social networking, search, and media sharing with a user interface resembling Google+.
When we last heard about it, So.cl (pronounced “Social”) was being billed as …
Twitter has been restored in Pakistan after being down for around eight hours. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that Twitter made no changes on its part to become restored and that the decision was purely on the government's end.
As if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t busy enough readying his company to go public this past week, he also somehow found time to marry long-time sweetheart Priscilla Chan yesterday.
Social networking titan Facebook went public Friday in the largest …
The all-computer run NASDAQ could be to blame for a lack of a Facebook stock pop Friday, when the social network started its first day of trading. Orders flooded in for the stock, but overwhelmed computers and glitches slowed trading …
Chinese antitrust and competition authorities have approved Google’s deal to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The merger, which was announced nine months ago in August 2011, will likely close next week.
China …
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 …
Quit your technology job. Get a Ph.D in the humanities. That’s the way to get ahead in the technology sector. That, at least, is what philosopher Damon Horowitz told a crowd of attendees at the BiblioTech Conference at Stanford University …
The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket came to an abrupt halt early Saturday. The rocket’s computer detected too-high levels of pressure in engine number five, causing the launch to stop a half-second before liftoff.
The Falcon 9 rocket …
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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 …
Augmented reality, which bridges the divide between virtual and physical worlds, has crossed into a new frontier: print media.
Penguin Books recently unveiled a surprising partnership with Zappar App, an augmented reality entertainment channel, to bring four novels from the …
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 …
In addition to being one of the largest initial public offerings ever, Facebook’s IPO drew so much interest that the system couldn’t keep up with demand.
Facebook expected to make its public debut at 8 a.m. PT this morning, but …
Leave it up to Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese firm known for its wacky news videos, to create the only Facebook IPO wrap-up that’s actually worth watching.
Sure, this Facebook wrap-up features a dead-eyed Zuckerberg riding the Wall Street bull …
Facebook released the amount of shares allocated to each of its underwriters today, following its less-than-stellar IPO day.
The company went public on the Nasdaq to an EKG-like performance, ending in a .38 cent gain today. The update came in …
Buying its way into social commerce, Facebook has acquired mobile gifting app Karma for an undisclosed sum.
“We’re thrilled to announce that Karma has been acquired by Facebook. The service that Karma provides will continue to operate in full force,” …
