The Ten Most Likely M&A Deals In Onl...
The Ten Most Likely M&A Deals In Online Video
Editor’s note : Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo . Below are his picks for the ten most likely M&A deals in online video. Previously, he wrote a series if posts about the state of online video (Part I , II , III , and IV ). Which online video companies...
Don’t “Pull A Patzer” And Other Le...
Don’t “Pull A Patzer” And Other Lessons Learned On Our Trip Down Sand Hill Road
Editor’s note : Earlier this month, BrightRoll raised a $10 million Series B for its video ad network. In this guest post, CEO Tod Sacerdoti shares some of the lessons he learned trying to raise that money in the current environment. As Peter Drucker once wrote , “The entrepreneur always searches...
19 Startups Showing Their Wares At TechC...
19 Startups Showing Their Wares At TechCrunch Japan’s TokyoCamp Demo Event
A total of 19 Japanese startups were given the chance to show their services at TokyoCamp, a demo event held by TechCrunch Japan (one of the country’s biggest blogs) this Friday. The event, which was co-organized by hosting company KDDI Web Communications , was a blast and attracted over 200 people...
Rejected By Apple, Grooveshark Releases ...
Rejected By Apple, Grooveshark Releases App For Jailbroken iPhones On Cydia
When Jason Kincaid tried out the iPhone app online music streaming startup Grooveshark built and showed off in July 2009, he wrote that it was great but that he “wouldn’t expect this to pop up in the App Store any time soon”. He was right on both counts. Grooveshark now says it has given...
YC-Funded Crocodoc Makes It A Snap To Sh...
YC-Funded Crocodoc Makes It A Snap To Share And Mark Up Documents
There are plenty of collaborative document editors out there, but when it comes to getting input about a new document or PowerPoint deck, many businesses still rely on the tried-and-true method of printing them out, handing them around the office, and asking people to scribble their notes directly onto...
Spotify Competitor We7 Screws Up Its iPh...
Spotify Competitor We7 Screws Up Its iPhone App Launch
It’s probably tricky to time these things to perfection, since Apple pulls the strings. The UK Spotify competitor, We7 , has had its iPhone app approved and is now available to download from the iTunes App Store. The problem is that the associated premium music subscription service, needed to...
Apparently AT&T Actually Does Have T...
Apparently AT&T Actually Does Have The Fastest 3G Network
By Chris Scott Barr AT&T has received a lot of grief over their 3G speed and reliability, mostly from iPhone users. Being an iPhone user myself, I tend to agree with such statements. It’s usually not too bad, unless you’re in a crowded area where other people may be sucking up the bandwidth....
Is The Nexus One’s Display Inferior To...
Is The Nexus One’s Display Inferior To The iPhone’s?
Well – not entirely . After all, it’s bright, responsive, and has a much higher resolution. But there is a lot more to making a good screen, and under a detailed analysis it’s far from a rout when you pit HTC’s bleeding-edge OLED screen against the old-school LCD of the iPhone....
Mobile Roadie Now Creates Apps For Andro...
Mobile Roadie Now Creates Apps For Android Ecosystem
We’re big fans of Mobile Roadie, a startup that helps develop iPhone apps. But the one gripe we had was that Mobile Roadie was limited to the iPhone platform. Today, our wish came true as Mobile Roadie is launching functionality for Android phones. The beauty of Mobile Roadie’s platform is that...
Apple Exec Phil Schiller Speaks On The A...
Apple Exec Phil Schiller Speaks On The App Store’s Sex Ban
It took them four days, but Apple is finally explaining its surprise decision to remove nearly all “sexy” content from the App Store. Once again, the morsels of information come from Apple SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller , who spoke with the New York Times for an article...
RemakingMySpace: Controversial. Bold. Pr...
RemakingMySpace: Controversial. Bold. Progressive. And Dead.
In the summer of 2009 MySpace hired Katie Germinder , Facebook’s Director of User Experience and Design, as an SVP. Her primary job was to assemble a “swat team” of leading outside designers and user interface experts and re-imagine MySpace from the ground up. That team was made up...
While Other Bikini Apps Are Banned, iTun...
While Other Bikini Apps Are Banned, iTunes Promotes Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit App
Apple is getting more prudish and pulling sexy apps from iTunes. One of the new rules is no more bikini apps, unless you happen to be Sports Illustrated (or FHM or Playboy ). Sports Illustrated, for instance, just released its 2010 Swimsuit app on iTunes on February 9, before the ban really started....

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