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Empty Walls Got You Down? TurningArt Raises $1.5M For Netflix-Style Art Rental
techcrunch.com
Over the last few years, a number of startups have begun to tackle the musty old industry that surrounds fine art. While approaches vary, they all in some way seek to capitalize on the Web’s ability to level the playing field, leveraging digital technologies to make art more accessible to...
Bain Ventures-Backed AppNeta Acquires Bain Ventures-Backed Tracelytics
pandodaily.com
When Bain Ventures invested $5.2 million into Boston-based Tracelytics, one of the firm’s portfolio companies took an interest. After a few months of getting-to-know-yous, the company, AppNeta, became interested enough to acquire Tracelytics. Which it did. Today. “It’s a bittersweet day,” CEO John Vigeant says, “but our name will be...
Shopmox Debuts A “Flipboard For Shopping” On The iPad
techcrunch.com
When done well, iPad-enabled shopping experiences have been paying off for e-commerce sites. Take for example, Fab.com, which is forecasting the iPad to account for a quarter of its revenue in two years’ time. But unfortunately, not all online retailers have yet to capitalize on this trend. By year-end 2011, none of the top...
Meet Matt Barrie: helping businesses harness outsourcing to boost growth
thenextweb.com
Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer spoke at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam about the power of outsourcing at a time when more of the world’s population is about to arrive online. Barrie notes that the global market for outsourcing means that even very small startups can afford to get...
Facebook plans initial stock market price between $28 and $35 a share
www.guardian.co.uk
Price would value company at upwards of $96bn, just shy of original estimates but still the largest for any internet companyFacebook has indicated it will price itself at between $28 and $35 a share, paving the way for the world's largest social networking site to reach a giddying valuation of...
The Audacity of Diaspora
battellemedia.com
Last Friday Businessweek ran a story on Diaspora, a social platform built from what might be called Facebook anti-matter. It’s a great read that chronicles the project’s extraordinary highs and lows, from Pebble-like Kickstarter success to the loss of a founder to suicide. Given the overwhelming hype around Facebook’s IPO this...
Boot up: Microsoft's online loss, Adode on HTML5, Apple's new China trademark battle and more
www.guardian.co.uk
Plus the Windows Phone masterplan, the only BlackBerry store in town (anywhere), faster fibre for Britain and moreGood morning (or evening on the US west coast) - we'll now be launching Boot Up at 0630 BST (and through to GMT if things go right) each day, as we thought those...
Deutsche Telekom and General Assembly set out Berlin plans
gigaom.com
Late last month Telefónica brought its Wayra accelerator to Germany; now rival operator Deutsche Telekom has followed suit with hub:raum, an incubator that it hopes can attract talent away from its competitor — not least because unlike Wayra it will be sited not in Munich but in the much trendier...
Dearth of Engineers in New York? Not for Facebook
betabeat.com
Serkan Piantino, FB NY’s VP of engineering (Photo: Vimeo) While most companies need a city-sponsored map to show just how many jobs they currently have open, Facebook’s new engineering office is not struggling for any lack of hirable talent. According to Wired, the company is looking to add a significant amount of...
Amazon’s new Prime Expansion team is adding more perks to the platform
venturebeat.com
Amazon is hiring some new team members to improve and enhance the Amazon Prime membership package. Currently, an $80-per-year membership gets you free, fast shipping and some media freebies. But if you’re not a die-hard online shopper or streaming media junkie, $80 annually can seem like a lot. The...
Betaworks Allegedly Offered to Buy The Onion to Keep It From Moving to Chicago
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Mr. Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks. (betaworks.com) Ever since news broke last year that satirical news source The Onion was shutting down their New York office and heading to Chicago, The Atlantic reports that the core team of staffers has pursued every avenue to keep the company from heading west. One...
Hyperoptic – Small business, big idea
www.guardian.co.uk
As Britain lags behind in broadband speeds, Boris Ivanovic responded to a market demand for a super-fast full fibre connection directly into the homeName HyperopticFounders Boris IvanovicCompany started 2011Number of employees A core team of nineBased LondonWhat's the big idea?The company is enabling the UK's first 1Gig consumer broadband speeds...
Twitter Highlighting "Clever Accounts", Extending Twitter 101 @cleveraccounts
blog.louisgray.com
A common aspect of any Web-centric company looking to break out of an early adopter niche to more mainstream acceptance is the highlighting of customers who have been brave enough to take the plunge first. The best of those often make their way into being showcased on the site,...
TradeShift Launches To Disrupt The Financial System – And Morten Lund Is Advising It
techcrunch.com
One of the most potentially disruptive startups of the last ten years is emerging into the light this week. And I honestly don’t say that lightly. Christian Lanng, a former builder of deep e-commerce and security services for the Danish government is co-founder of TradeShift along with a very hard-core...
Windows Live Writer 2010 Gets the Office Ribbon
www.labnol.org
Microsoft is preparing to release a new version of Windows Live Writer that may not have too many new features but it will sport a brand new user interface powered by the ribbon (similar to what you have in Microsoft Office programs). A feature of Live Writer 2010 that will...
The Final Days for Google Wave Have Arrived: Read-Only Now, To Be Turned Off in April
siliconfilter.com
Google Wave once looked like it could become Google's next big thing, but in the end, the service was too complicated and never developed enough of an active following. Just a few weeks after coming out of beta in August 2010, Google announced that it would stop developing Wave. Since...
Digg’s Biggest Problem Are Its Users And Their Constant Opinions On Things
techcrunch.com
There’s a saying I love: “a camel is a horse designed by committee.” A variation is “a volvo is a porsche designed by committee.” Some of the best product advice I’ve ever heard goes something like “damn what the users want, charge towards your dream.” All of these statements are,...
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