Venture capitalists invested $6.5 billion in 906 deals in the second quarter of 2010, according to a MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Quarterly investment activity increased 34 percent in terms of dollars and 22 percent in number of deals compared to the first quarter of ...
We've just learned that Firefox Home [iTunes link] has been accepted to Apple's App Store. This is Mozilla's first submission to the App Store; the app was submitted 15 days ago.Fennec is Mozilla's official mobile browser; it's still in its early stages of testing and development. The Firefox Home app isn't a browser itself, but it will help Apple mobile ...
Good news, iPhone toting Firefox fans. A few weeks ago Mozilla submitted a new application called ‘Firefox Home‘ to the App Store. No, this isn’t a new Firefox browser for iPhone (which would be blocked by Apple). Instead, it’s a syncing application that gives you access to all of your Firefox bookmarks, history, and even the tabs you have open on ...
Ze Frank, the video blogger and performance artist, is getting $500,000 from a band of super angels and VCs to play games. His stealth startup Ze Frank Games (there isn’t even a Website for it yet) just raised a seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Chris Dixon’s Founder Collective, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, betaworks, Lerer Ventures, First Round Capital, CrossCut ...
What if your activities were watched and recorded so we could not only catch you for any crime but could maximize how much money we make selling you stuff? An editorial by Toby Considine over at Automated Buildings suggests that this is fast becoming the future we're moving into.
Considine gives one example of a British murder conviction that was based ...
Telus announced the HTC Desire earlier this week and teased its Canadian customers by providing all the details on this hot Android handset except the launch date and pricing. Thankfully, some sleuthing by various sources has uncovered both inventory and potentially pricing information that point to an imminent launch of this handset. Uncovered in the source code of the Telus’ ...
As we've touched upon here before on ReadWriteStart, addressing legal concerns can be daunting for first-time entrepreneurs. When do you really need a lawyer, for example? What can you do to make sure you don't find yourself in legal hot water?
Patent lawyer Brett J. Trout offers a list of ten things you can do to help make sure ...
Google July 15 announced net revenues of $5.1 billion for the second quarter on earnings per share of $6.45. The search engine reported GAAP net income of $1.84 billion, compared with $1.48 billion in Q2 2009. - Google July 15 announced net
revenues of $5.1 billion for the second quarter on earnings per share of $6.45,
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Services for file sharing and storage often will include collaboration features.
Smith Micro Software has a new cloud-based service called SendStuffNow that has at its core one major purpose. It is designed to send files. It is not for storing files and collaborating. It is for sending files in a secure manner. That's it.
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For SmithMicro, it makes sense to focus ...
If you’re running a website, you’ve probably heard of A/B testing, which entails running multiple versions of a site at once and tracking which one performs best with users. But there’s also a pretty good chance that you haven’t actually gotten around to running those A/B tests — the prospect can be daunting, and if you aren’t tech savvy, existing solutions ...
Apple isn’t planning to recall the iPhone 4 despite its well-publicized antenna reception problems, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
We’ll find out soon enough as Apple has planned a press conference for Friday at 10 am at its Cupertino, Calif. headquarters. We plan to be there. While there has been a lot of talk about a recall, ...
Reuters - Lawyers for Mel Gibson and his estranged girlfriend squared off in court on Thursday in a bitter custody dispute over their baby daughter after a week of damaging, ranting phone calls leaked to an online web site.
PC World - Imagine if you could learn to fly a helicopter by downloading software directly to your brain. Imagine if your eyes could see an object, overlaid with data, miles away in the dark. These science-fiction scenes from The Matrix and Terminator movies may be less fictional in the future, thanks to the fascinating science behind medical implants.
DROIDForums.net is reporting that Verizon Wireless has given the end-of-life nod to the following devices:
Gateway LT2016U (netbook)
Motorola Devour and DROID
Nokia Twist
BlackBerry Tour 9630
Samsung Knack, Smooth, Intensity, and Saga
Looks like Big Red is making room in their handset lineup for some of the new hotness due out this summer. Anything on this list surprise you?
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Appolicious - The summer heat is no competition for the red-hot Android Market, with Google announcing its App Inventor DIY kit, enabling anyone to easily make a mobile app. Moodagent also made its Android debut, while eBay expanded its mobile app reach to the UK, Australia and Canada.
NSA to Spy on the Internet. The high-tech National Security Agency is establishing a program of covert surveillance of United States infrastructure facilities and on the Internet, according to the Wall Street Journal. The fantasmagorically creepy name they've chosen for it goes off like a warning siren.
"The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed 'Perfect Citizen' to detect cyber ...
1, 1999, interiorscapers have made 8,837,853 hits at INTERIORSCAPE.com! Reads: 68429 Messages: 83 Seems that way, doesn't it? Same e-commerce provider, same web designer, same fonts and layouts...here we go again, methinks.
We've confirmed with MySpaceMySpace that the company is demoing a completely redesigned version of its profile pages.“We’re testing a new look and feel of our site among users and the response so far has been positive," a MySpace rep said in a statement sent to MashableMashable. "As always, we’re interested in hearing feedback from our community as we roll out ...
A study published earlier this year by CA and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and security group surveyed over 900 IT professionals in the U.S. and Europe about their perceptions, predictions, and practices as on-site systems migrate to the cloud.
The results are particularly striking as they reveal some of the obstacles that cloud computing faces from those who are ...
General Motors announced today that it would offer an 8-year, 100,000-mile warranty on the battery pack, the charger, and the Voltec electric drive components of its upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric car.
The announcement sets to rest potential worries that Volt owners might be stuck having to replace an expensive, high-voltage battery pack costing thousands of dollars ...