IPOs Just Aren't What They Used To Be
I spent the day yesterday with VCs from other firms. I heard two stories about IPOs that are worth sharing. — One VC told me a story about a failed IPO for one of their portfolio companies a few ye...
AT&T Randomly Cancelling iPhone 4 Pre-Orders?
The saga continues. A reader forwarded us this note he got from AT&T, simply stating that his iPhone 4 preorder had been cancelled, for no apparent reason. And he's not the only one. — Even for AT...
Some Guy Says Apple Stock Is About To Plummet To $45 A Share
Before you howl, just pause and take a deep breath. — The most dangerous time in the markets is when everyone agrees about something. And right now, everyone agrees that Apple (AAPL) is a juggernau...
Facebook for iPhone 3.1.3 Brings Video Watching, Event Walls, and Better Pictures
With nearly 55 million monthly active users, Facebook for iPhone has continued to grow as an increasingly primary way that people access Facebook. Now, Facebook has just released version 3.1.3 …
Soon there will be no reason to have a big, boxy computer on your desk.
Consider the desktop. For decades, it was the king of computers. If you wanted a PC, you bought a big, boxy machine that sat on or under your desk. At first you did this because there was nothing e...
OnLive Streaming Game Service Tested (At Home, Finally!)
We've checked out the OnLive pure-streaming gaming system before, but it was always in a somewhat controlled environment. Finally, the service has launched, and we can see what it's like to play this...
Strategies: A Coding Error Spells Problems at AXA Rosenberg
INVESTING is always an act of faith, but perhaps never more so than when you entrust your money to a quant fund. — Quantitative funds, after all, are the “black boxes” of investing — portfolios run ...
The Best iOS 4-Ready Apps So Far
We all know that the iPhone 4 launches this coming Thursday. But on Monday, current iPhone users get an early treat in the form of iOS 4, the new iPhone operating system (formerly known as iPhone OS ...
Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world's largest site
At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren't practical. The challenge for Facebook's engineers has been to keep the site up ...
Palm: 'we don't know what the hold-up is' on mobile Flash
Adobe hasn't given any signs that it's close to porting Flash to webOS, Palm said in an AT&T online app development seminar on Thursday. When asked about the multiple delays, a representative said th...
David Fincher's ‘The Social Network’ Official Poster Unveiled
Bold marketing going on here - the tagline is the poster! So where is the title? It's along the side, as part of a sidebar that looks like the header from Facebook. Notice anything similar?
Sean Parker: Facebook Won Because Of MySpace's “Gross Incompetence”
One time Facebook President Sean Parker, speaking at FastCompany's Innovation Uncensored conference, took the opportunity to absolutely dump on MySpace. — Sean began by pointing out that Friendster ...
The end of WIMP and the rise of Touch
I recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t multi-touch tablet/netbook. It was on sale for $200 off and I just couldn't resist. I figured it'd be a great way to test out the variety of new tablet OS's...
AT&T Tries, Fails To Justify 3G Cap-Eating Microcell
Yesterday we noted how AT&T's Microcell femtocell service was already a dubious value proposition given the device, intended to improve in-home cell coverage …
Quark takes on Adobe with e-publishing partnership
Ten years ago, Quark was the tool of choice for producing Wired magazine and many other high-production-value publications. Since then, Adobe's less expensive, aggressively competitive InDesign has s...
Might Threaded Conversations Be Coming To Twitter?
There's no question that Twitter's web experience has been improving pretty rapidly over the past several months. However, one area that's still lacking is a good way to view conversations. Clicking...