When founder Anthony Casalena first started Squarespace in 2003, he had one investment: $20,000 from his dad. At the time, it was just enough money to get a few servers for his web publishing startup.
Fast forward to 2010, Squarespace has just raised $38.5 million— representing its first round of outside capital. The round, which was announced late Tuesday, is led ...
Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association have released a report today indicating that U.S. venture capitalists expect their market to contract but anticipate growth in emerging markets, including China, India and Brazil, over the next five years. The 2010 global venture report surveyed over 500 VCs worldwide.
According to the survey results, more than 90 percent of U.S. survey ...
We just wrapped up MobileBeat 2010, our annual mobile tech conference. Over the course of two days, we brought speakers including HP’s Phil McKinney, AT&T’s John Donovan, and Facebook’s Erick Tseng on-stage to take about their vision of the mobile industry’s future, and 20 companies demonstrated new products to compete for our Tesla Awards for best startup.
The big theme was ...
Security and other device management features are now available for Google Apps administrators.
It’s a rare “All Star” hedge fund manager and technology analyst who can also design both computer chips and write software programs.
But what about a successful ex Morgan Stanley semiconductor analyst and president of a $1 billion hedge fund with five years of experience as a chip designer and programmer at AT&T Bell Labs who is also the author ...
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Google to report earnings of $6.54 per share on sales of $5 billion July 15. Google's conflicts in China and Europe and competition with Apple, Facebook and Bing could weigh on the search engine. - Google is sure to face questions about its business abroad and snafus in the
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As TechCrunch discovered today, Twitter is now showing a sample of matching usernames/accounts for name-based queries on Twitter.com.
A search for matt mcgee (without the @ symbol) now shows my account and the names of two others above the tweets that match the search query. There’s also a small link to view a more complete [...]
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Earlier today in San Francisco, General Electric announced the launch of its Ecomagination Challenge — a $200 million investment created in partnership with VC funds Emerald Technology Ventures, Foundation Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and RockPort Capital. The money will ...
Google has launched a new website to centralize its efforts to build an ultra high-speed fiber optic Internet network, better known as Google Fiber.Earlier this year, GoogleGoogle announced its plan to build a high-speed network, delivering connection speeds 100 times faster than typical U.S. connections. The announcement produced a frenzy of interest: 600+ communities applied to become ground zero ...
AFP - Mel Gibson's terrible week just got worse as in a fresh recording posted online, the Oscar-winning "Braveheart" director allegedly uses racial language to disparage a Hispanic cleaning lady.
Reuters - Developers of China's Green Dam Internet filter have not received government funding in the past year, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday, placing in doubt the future of the much-criticized software.
Everyone knows that Apple is an extremely secretive company. Some would say to a fault. But it seems to have served them well over the years. That’s why it’s not surprising at all to see that none of Apple’s key executives use public social networking services. And that’s why it’s a bit interesting that Apple Senior Vice President of iPhone ...
Microsoft has not yet announced the pricing on its upcoming Kinect motion device, but that has not stopped the Xbox 360 accessory from making the rounds on retail websites including Microsoft’s. This week the device made its debut on Walmart’s website in a $199.99 bundle that includes a $30 Walmart eGift Card and your choice of a free launch title, ...
According to the Yahoo help site, Yahoo Personals will close permanently on July 21. Users may either quit the pay-to-date service or transfer their profiles to Match.com.
Dating services have been online for quite a while - the debate over their efficacy beginning about eight seconds after the first personal appeared - and have grown in popularity since. But the ...
Twitter has rolled out a number of new monetization models in recent weeks and a change to the search results page tonight may be the next one we'll see. Last Friday Peter Kafka published a report on AllThingsD predicting that Twitter would soon start offering followers to customers, for a price. Now tonight, MG Siegler at TechCrunch spotted ...
What if commercials really did talk to you? What if a familiar spokesperson addressed you by name and responded to your thoughts and feelings. In what is definitely one of the more creative social media ad campaigns in a while, Old Spice is doing just that. Its shirtless, muscled spokesman, the Old Spice Man, is shooting YouTube ...
An east-coast company called XPRT Ventures has filled a lawsuit against eBay for a hefty $3.8 billion, claiming that the online auction site stole its inventions when filing for patents related to PayPal. One XPRT's lawyers was quoted by Reuters accusing eBay of "trade secret theft, along with sheer patent infringement." The plaintiffs claim that they shared their ideas ...
PC World - Microsoft will release its first full-featured Bing search client for Android in the next six weeks, matching the search capabilities that Microsoft offers for the iPhone, company executives said Tuesday.
PC World - Facebook has about 150 million mobile users, up from just 100 million in April, and is counting on cell phones as the key platform for the future, according to the social-networking giant's head of mobile products, Eric Tseng.
Hootsuite Twitter client is launching a private beta of its Blackberry app.
Blackberry may arguably not be as cool as other smart phones anymore, but the people who use them tend to do so in an enterprise context. Their concerns are more around efficiency, ease and profitability than cool. Hootsuite's Blackberry client may offer them more than the device's native ...