Today, the third annual 4sqDay (April 16, four-squared, get it?), check-in king Foursquare confirmed that it has reached new milestones of 20 million users and a whopping 2 billion check-ins.
Anyone who makes a check-in on the service today will …
After months of rumors about the Galaxy S III smartphone, Samsung has finally sent out press invites for a London event on May 3, asking attendees to “Come and meet the next Galaxy.”
There’s a hint of Apple coyness to …
Rackspace, the top cloud infrastructure provider after Amazon, has significantly upgraded its core offerings with a new next-generation public cloud powered by OpenStack, the company said Monday.
For quite some time, Amazon has outpaced Rackspace as the top dog for …
Given the choice between accumulating dust or money on useful stuff you own, most people would likely go with cash. That’s the driving idea behind RentStuff, a service that lets you rent out useful possessions to people nearby.
RentStuff closed …
VentureBeat is looking for an experienced, creative, high-end PHP coder to build some of the coolest projects in the media world today.
You should have experience working on WordPress (VIP is a plus), and be familiar with the LAMP stack. …
Oftentimes when people become unemployed, they fall prey to feelings of helplessness. Not Christopher Albeluhn, an unemployed game designer who recently created an incredibly cool app that allows you to explore the solar system and constellations in 3D.
New details have emerged about the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher, including confirmation that the film will end in the year 2000 before Jobs introduced the iPod, iPhone, and iPad to the world.
Word landed on April’s Fools …
J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website that lets Harry Potter fans explore the books’ universe and interact with other fans has finally opened registration for anyone who wants access.
Pottermore was announced last June as a site where Potter fans can read …
The Federal Communications Commission has slapped Google with a $25,000 fine for obstructing the agency’s efforts to find out more about Google’s data collection practices, according to the New York Times.
Google has been in the government’s sights for years …
Editor's Pick
Israel’s start up economy is hotter than ever. But a question haunts entrepreneurs there: Why are Israeli start-up hits generally so small? Where is their version of Instagram, the Silicon Valley-based photo-sharing company that Facebook just bought for $1 billion …
Ashton Kutcher is a well-known celebrity investor in Silicon Valley, but many see him as just a marketing ploy, an attention-grabbing name. However, Kutcher could be more than the dimples that move product off the shelves.
When Kutcher first came …
Germany’s third most popular political party, The Pirate Party, was ordered to shut down its proxy to The Pirate Bay website today, or face fines of 10,000 euros for every day the proxy is still running.
The Pirate Bay allows …
Happy Saturday, fellow nerds. Here’s our weekly roundup of news, presented with all the fresh candor and zazz the editoral team could muster.
We covered quite a bit of top-shelf news for ya this week. Here are the stories that …
Guest Post
Trust is so basic to business that it is rarely discussed in an analytical and accessible way. The book “The Speed of Trust” offers critical advice for entrepreneurs on how to actively manage trust in order to accelerate growth and …
Top venture capitalists and Mark Zuckerberg weren’t the only ones interested in high flying photo sharing app Instagram. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, an early angel investor in Instagram, was also trying to buy the service in the months before Facebook …
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom knew all the right people in Silicon Valley to get take his startup from idea to $1 billion Facebook buyout. But it seems Systrom had connections to the social network throughout his career.
The New York …
Michael Abrash, a top video game technical expert, has begun a research project to create “wearable computing” for video game publisher Valve.
Valve’s Abrash described the project he is working on in a new employee blog post according to Kotaku. …
Fifth-grader Dylan Viale has a blind grandmother. So the 10-year-old made her a game that uses audio cues according to a story in Kotaku.
Viale attends Hidden Valley Elementary School in Martinez, California. He figured out how to make a …
In an effort to rev up the social engines of race car lovers everywhere, eBay is launching an extreme Twitter conversation hub for the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach.
eBay, in partnership with social media experience generator BumeBox, is …
Guest Post
Editor’s note: We’re happy to publish this excerpt from a short story by Mike Frankel. Enjoy!
Day 37: It’s been over a month since I’ve embarked on this masochistic lifestyle. My eyes are bloodshot, burned deep by my laptop’s searing …
