Fwix Shifts From Local ...
For the past two years, Fwix has been building a hyperlocal news site for cities and neighborhoods around the country in a very automated fashion. Its homepage for every city has been three columns filled with recent news and blog headlines, along with other local data like weather (see...Inflection Raises $30 M...
Inflection , a company aimed to democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures . Founded in 2006, Inflection aggregates public records and data from past and present and currently operates...20 Year Old Founder Jes...
We’ve confirmed that wunderkind Jessica Mah is one week away from closing a hotly anticipated round of seed financing for her banking startup InDinero. Confirmed investors in the round (which still has three open spots reserved for valley VIPs like SV Angel) include 500 StartUps...LG deploys Smart TVs at...
LG is pushing its smart TVs at IFA in Germany. The idea is that TVs are going to become “computers” that can browse the web and use web services like Yahoo, Picassa or YouTube. With the change in function, comes a change in user interface. LG is now using a magic wand remote...Apple to video-stream i...
Tomorrow, at 10am PT, Apple will broadcast a live video stream of its “special event” held in downtown San Francisco. The broadcast will be hosted at apple.com. There’s one caveat: it will *only work on Mac OS 10.6 or iOS 3.0+*. Yes, you read that right, if you have a...OAuthpocalypse Tomorrow...
A couple weeks ago, we noted the start of the “ OAuthpocalypse ” — that is, Twitter’s move to make all developers use OAuth rather than basic authentication for their third-party apps. Twitter expected some bumps as they were going to be continuously shutting...Bubble Blinders: The Un...
Ali Partovi is an angel investor, startup advisor, and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded iLike , acquired by Myspace in 2009, and previously LinkExchange , acquired by Microsoft for $265mm in 1998. His portfolio has included such successes as Zappos, Tellme, Ironport, and Facebook. He...Yahoo! Search Transitio...
Yahoo has now completed its transition of its Internet search to Microsoft’s Bing search engine, a deal that was announced earlier and is now accomplished. According to the companies, Yahoo!’s search on mobile and the desktop is now being powered by Microsoft’s search...