Gay social network Fabulis is getting a quarter of a million dollars toward its seed round from David Bohnett, who founded GeoCities at the tender age of 16. This brings the network's total seed money to $825,000, VentureBeat reports.Bohnett's venture capital firm,
Lookout, a company that offers security data backup services for smartphones, has reached a significant milestone: the startup now has one million users for its security application after only six months in operation.
Lookout, which just raised $11 million from Accel, Khosla and others, says the growth in smartphone adoption, mobile app downloads and increased consumer awareness of mobile security ...
PC World - Toshiba will sell a modified version of Intel's Classmate convertible laptop in Japan, the company said Thursday.
Let's face it: You never really leave high school. The Internet realm is no different.It can be hard to get your freshman blog noticed among the teeming masses of digital domains. Why? Last year the total tally of blogs hit 126 million, according to BlogPulse. That's a big class to climb to the top of. We're not saying you have ...
Reuters - India has further delayed the introduction of mobile number portability by four months to end-October, the government said on Wednesday.
Lost in the hubbub surrounding smartphone powerhouses like the DROID X and iPhone 4 is the fact that the average person simply wants a phone that makes calls. To satiate this need, and throw in a few extra feature for good measure, T-Mobile today announced the immediate availability of the LG Sentio. An affordable device that brings to the table ...
Appolicious - While the free GetGlue iPhone app would have been my very favorite discovery as a 17-year-old, I like it now as well. The first thing you do here is check in; which, in Facebook parlance, means announce what you’re currently doing.
Earlier this afternoon, Mozilla submitted what would be its first iPhone application to the App Store. No, it’s not Firefox — well, not exactly.
Mozilla has submitted an app called Firefox Home for approval. While it’s not the native Firefox web browser, it is an app that lets you easily move your Firefox browsing history, bookmarks, and open tabs to the ...
At a press conference on Tuesday, Google confirmed that by the end of the year, YouTube will give users the option to skip the pre-roll ads that launch before a video. The online video giant will also implement an ad selection feature that will allow users to select an ad that they find appealing prior to watching a longer-format video. ...
Yesterday, Wired published a report detailing an issue with Foursquare privacy, whereby a program could effectively harvest Foursquare checkin data by constantly refreshing venue pages and looking to see which users were showing up in the “Who’s Been Here” section, which shows a grid of users who recently checked in at that venue. According to the article, white hat ...
Mozilla has submitted Firefox Home, its first official iPhone app, to Apple's App Store. It may be the closest thing we ever see to Firefox on the iPhone.Firefox Home is not like Fennec, the official mobile version of the FirefoxFirefox browser, currently in pre-alpha for AndroidAndroid. Instead, it is an app that provides users access to their Firefox ...
Mozilla has submitted Firefox Home, its first official iPhone app, to Apple's App Store. It may be the closest thing we ever see to Firefox on the iPhone.Firefox Home is not like Fennec, the official mobile version of the FirefoxFirefox browser, currently in pre-alpha for AndroidAndroid. Instead, it is an app that provides users access to their Firefox ...
Siluria Technologies, a young startup that engineers bugs to convert natural gas into organic chemicals, has just emerged from stealth. Sounds dull, but there’s a lot of dollar signs attached — including an investment from Silicon Valley’s cleantech kingmaker, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
More and more startups are chasing the biofuels bandwagon these days, spending ...
AdMob released its May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report today. In addition to giving the latest information on devices and usage share in the U.S. online, the report also looks at emerging trends over the last two years.The big takeaways should be familiar to mobile stats watchers: iPhone and iOS devices continue to dominate worldwide but AndroidAndroid is making big ...
The folks at AnandTech just published their review of the iPhone 4 and took a close look at the antenna issue that is plaguing the handset. In true geek style, they mapped the bar representation of the signal strength from -51dB (perfect signal strength) to -131dB (bare minimum to maintain a connection) and measured the iPhone 4 signal strength attenuation in terms of decibels. The result of ...
Quick, name the last automaker to go public before yesterday’s Tesla Motors IPO. Stumped?
It was Ford Motor Company. The year was 1956.
Perhaps buyers of Tesla Motors stock [NSDQ:TSLA] were optimistic because they had little context to assess the comapny. Tesla’s stock soared from its offering price of $17 to close at $23.89 by the end of yesterday, meaning ...
Amid all the hubbub surrounding Tesla Motors‘ IPO yesterday, its competitor, Fisker Automotive — a company started by the original designer of Tesla’s Model S electric sedan, Henrik Fisker — has taken a quiet step forward, earning approval to transform a defunct General Motors plant into a factory for its own line of green vehicles.
Fisker’s ...
Image Metrics, a leading facial animation technology provider for video games and film (which recently animated over 100 characters in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption), has announced today that it is expanding its scope by acquiring Character-FX, an avatar creation company founded by 3D animation pioneer John Riggs.
Character-FX is a toolset for use with Autodesk’s Maya and 3DS Max (two very ...
The government is denying 10 U.S. citizens and residents, three of whom are veterans, the ability to fly to or from the United States. Nearly all have Middle Eastern names, and many are stranded overseas, according to a federal lawsuit.
An earthquake is coming for the video game business. Blizzard Entertainment is readying a new expansion pack for its market-dominating World of Warcraft online game, and the company is launching the beta test for it today.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is going to create shock waves for rival game publishers as it launches later this year, sucking the time out of ...