New in Labs: Canned Responses
Hello, you've reached Chad's mailbox. Thanks for your email about the latest Labs feature: Canned Responses, or email for the truly lazy. I'm on paternity leave so I won't be able to respond persona...
The Growing Frustration of eBay Sellers
Changes at eBay, especially its new ratings feedback policy, have many longtime sellers angry. Some are even leaving for upstart sites like Shopify — When Julie Rodarte and her husband started sell...
Intel slams ‘slow’ iPhone ARM CPU
Any speed shortcomings in Apple's iPhone were the fault of its rival chipset manufacturer ARM, a senior Intel executive said in Taiwan yesterday. — “The shortcomings of the iPhone are not because of...
Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WYSIWYG editor
For a while we've been exploring switching to WYSIWYG text editing in our products. Up until this point we've been using either plain text, manual HTML, or Textile formatting. Depending on who you a...
Like.com's Perfect Timing: $32 Million Series C Round
Silicon Valley based Like.com managed to raise a monster round of financing at just the right time: $32 million in Series C round of funding that closed in August, led by Menlo Ventures. Crosslink Ca...
Bad Day For Midway
Sumner Redstone's videogame publisher Midway Games had a doozy of a day, losing 12% of its market value with the billionaire wrapped up in talks with his creditors. — Shares in Midway Games (nyse: M...
Reflexive is acquired by Amazon.com
Here at Reflexive we've got some really big news - and I wanted you to hear it directly from me, Lars Brubaker, CEO of Reflexive. — Reflexive Entertainment Inc. has been acquired by Amazon.com! — ...
Email From Jason Calacanis: How To Handle Layoffs
In his latest email newsletter, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis discusses “How To Handle Layoffs.” It is a topic he knows too well, having had to go through a layoff of 10 percent of his staff earlier tod...