Welcoming Bluefin Labs to the Flock
Today we're happy to announce that we have acquired Bluefin Labs, a leading social TV analytics company that provides data products to brand advertisers, agencies, and TV networks. We believe that Bl...
Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private
Dell announced Tuesday that it had agreed to go private in a $24 billion deal led by its founder and the investment firm Silver Lake, in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis. — Un...
OUYA Finds a Friend With Amazon
OUYA, an Android-powered video game console that was funded on crowd-funding site Kickstarter, will begin selling consoles through Amazon, Gamestop and several other retailers. — The retailers will ...
Growing Numbers of Start-Ups Are Worth a Billion Dollars
SAN FRANCISCO — The number of privately held Silicon Valley start-ups that are worth more than $1 billion shocks even the executives running those companies. — “I thought we were special,” said Phil...
Google wins landmark advertising case in Australia
(Reuters) - Global search engine Google Inc won a landmark court case in Australia on Wednesday when the country's High Court ruled the Internet giant was not responsible for messages conveyed by paid...
‘Radio Buy Buttons’ found in iOS 6.1 via newly jailbroken iPads, could mean new functionality coming
‘Radio Buy’ buttons, above, enlarged, put together from files, below — Having a look around our newly jailbroken iPads with iFunBox, we happened on a new set of files in the iPad Music.app.
As Pinterest Grows, Startup Seeks $2.5 Billion Valuation
Online scrapbooking site Pinterest is in talks to raise a new round of financing at a $2 billion to $2.5 billion valuation, said people familiar with the matter. — The talks are fluid and a deal isn...
Amazon launches new ‘Coins’ virtual currency for Kindle Fire app purchases, coming to the US in May
Intent on helping app developers gain more money from their Appstore submissions, Amazon today announced the launch of ‘Amazon Coins,’ a new virtual currency that will allow Kindle Fire owners …
Amazon wins broad patent on reselling and lending ‘used’ digital goods
In the real world, lending a book to a friend or selling your used music collection isn't exactly groundbreaking. In the digital world, it's patentable. — Amazon.com has been awarded what appears t...
Ouya console will be sold at Best Buy, Target, and Gamestop for $99.99 in June
Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman has announced the first details of retail availability for the Android-powered games console. If you missed out on Ouya's successful Kickstarter campaign and wanted to pick one ...
The Threat of Silence
Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set to revolutionize privacy and freak out the feds. — For the past few months, some of the world's leading cryptographers have been keeping a closely guar...
About.me Buys Itself Back from AOL
Here's your next challenge as a founder of a start-up: Sell your company to a digital behemoth for tens of millions of dollars, then buy it back for a fraction of the cost. Oh, and keep the change. ...
128GB Retina iPads hit the Apple Store with 1-5 day ship times. $799 for Wifi and $929 for LTE
As expected, Apple today added the 128GB iPad to the Apple Store and initiated a 1-3 business day shipping time on these high end tablets. The Wifi models come in at a hefty $799 while the LTE models...
Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned
Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding - possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. And yet, it is like a high none other. I have experienced it in others. And quietl...
Report: Qihoo's iOS Apps Under Special Investigation by Apple
Still banned by Apple: the 360 Browser HD for iPad. — At the start of last week, all the 20+ iOS apps made by Chinese software company and search engine Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU) vanished from Apple's App S...
Viddy CEO Brett O'Brien is out, rumors of a declined Twitter deal swirl
Viddy co-founder and CEO Brett O'Brien will no longer be involved in the company's day to day operations, and the search is underway for a new chief executive with more product and content monetizatio...
Lenovo ThinkPad Helix delayed until March or April
Lenovo's versatile ThinkPad Helix was one of the more impressive convertible laptops we saw at CES 2013, but there's some bad news for those holding out for its mooted February release date. Respondi...
BlackBerry gets help from Trend Micro in the fight against malware
In the race to the starting line, BlackBerry pulled out all the stops in order to deliver an app library that's 70,000 strong, but now the firm's looking to Trend Micro in an effort to keep malicious ...
Brazil: The Social Media Capital of the Universe
SÃO PAULO—When Barbosa family members botched their cover of an old Brazilian gospel song last year on a family video, they thought it was pretty funny—funny enough to upload to YouTube. — But they ...
Piston Cloud raises $8M — from Cisco and others — to push enterprise OpenStack
from Cisco and others — to push enterprise OpenStack — Piston Cloud has raised $8 million in new funding to fuel its push its enterprise-focused OpenStack offerings. The series B round for Piston (s...