(Founder Stories) Insta...

Steve Anderson’s   Baseline Ventures  has invested in startups that include  Instagram ,  Heroku , and  Weebly .  (Earlier this month, Baseline took part in a  $1-million seed round for Crashlytics .)  It took him only four weeks to raise $100 million for his curernt...
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Is LinkedIn For Old Peo...

Greylock VC and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman talked about his Web 3.0 idea (Big Data quel surprise) here at Web 2.0 about the implementation layer on top of this data. When asked by moderator John Battelle what he thought about his own investment (and what some might consider a...
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Sony’s Playstation-Br...

Remember that 3D TV bundle that Sony announced at E3 ? Well, it’s finally arriving. A little later than we’d hoped, but at least it’s out in time for the holidays. According to the Playstation Blog, the 32″ TV should be generally available on November 13th . They...
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Lytro Launches: Amazing...

Remember Lytro, the camera that couldn’t care less about focus ? The one that captures all the information in its light field, so you can play with the focus after the fact? Well, it’s no longer just a nice idea. Lytro (the company) just started taking pre-orders for Lytro...
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WordPress.com Users Can...

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com , and Federated Media have teamed up to give WordPress’s millions of users the ability to place ads on their blogs. The partnership, which the two companies announced at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, will allow brands and...
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AngelPad’s Third Demo...

Six months after the second cohort launched , the ex-Googler fueled  AngelPad  is ready to have at it again with a third brood of 11 business Internet-focused, technology driven companies. A little over a year into its existence, AngelPad has launched 22 companies, 19 of which have...
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Watch The 2011 Web 2.0 ...

We’re at the Palace Hotel for day two of for the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit , where the lineup for the next three days consists of almost everyone on the entire Internet. The. entire. Internet. In case you didn’t get to be a part of the in-person action, you and your friends at home can...
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RIM Announces New OS fo...

On stage at the Research in Motion BlackBerry developer conference Tuesday, co-founder and CEO Mike Lazardis announced a new, unified operating system for BlackBerry smartphones, tablets and other devices called BlackBerry BBX. BBX will begin powering new BlackBerry smartphones and...
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Professor Layton Leaves...

One of the biggest Nintendo DS franchises is coming to iOS . Level-5 has announced that Nintendo’s exclusive access to their Professor Layton franchise is ending, and they’ll be releasing a new game called Layton Brothers: Mystery Room for iOS devices. A developer making the...
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Why So Siri-ous?...

Looking over the web and especially the blogosphere over the past couple of days, it seems there is only one thing everyone wants to talk about: Siri. With the iPhone 4S now in millions of peoples’ hands, as expected , it’s clearly the stand-out feature of the device. But...
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