Pixazza, a Google-backed photo tagging service that has been compared to an “AdSense for Images,” has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Shasta Ventures, with Series A investors August Capital, CMEA Capital and Google Ventures also participating in the round. This brings the startup’s total funding to nearly $20 million.
Pixazza allows publishers to identify, tag and ...
Blogetery, a Wordpress platform, has seen its entire community shut down by its host, BurstNET. Subsequent statements by BurstNET indicated that the service was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency.
"(Blogetery) was terminated by request of law enforcement officials, due to material hosted on the server. We are limited as to the details we can provide ...
Reuters - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc said on Monday it aimed to raise shipments of 3D notebook computers by 30 percent in 2011, as it makes a huge bet on booming sales of 3D products led by televisions.
1, 1999, interiorscapers have made 8,861,943 hits at INTERIORSCAPE.com! Reads: 68910 Messages: 83 Seems that way, doesn't it? Same e-commerce provider, same web designer, same fonts and layouts...here we go again, methinks.
Despite coming in second in ReadWriteWeb's 2010 Best of the Web poll, the sales numbers for Google's Nexus One were dismal. In the same amount of time it took Apple to sell 1 million iPhones, Google only sold 135,000 of the Android-powered Nexus.
Now, Google is discontinuing the Nexus One altogether. On July 16, the company announced that it received ...
Rackspace and NASA are open-sourcing its code and technology for people anywhere to create their own cloud environments.
Called OpenStack, the initiative is one of the most substantive effort to support interoperability in the cloud. As part of the initiative, Rackspace is donating the code that powers its cloud files and cloud servers, the foundation for its public-cloud offerings. NASA will ...
Google has pulled the plug on the Nexus One, its once highly anticipated smartphone. The last shipment has arrived at Google HQ, and once those are gone there will be no more Nexus Ones for U.S. consumers.The handset will still be sold through Vodafone in Europe and some Asian carriers, and developers will still be able to get their hands ...
Mashable hosted its second stop on the U.S. Summer Tour in San Francisco Wednesday night. The event brought hundreds from the San Francisco community together for networking, an open bar, food and awesome prizes from our sponsors, which included iPads, tickets and much more. We were also joined by Rachel Sklar, who interviewed event attendees and readers participating remotely in ...
PC World - You already know the basics of internet security, right?
The Upshot - Mark Williams, the tea party leader expelled from the National Tea Party Federation (NTPF) for comments he made about the National Association of Colored people (NAACP), has fired back on his blog. Though he says he is refusing all requests …
After months of hard work, designing and building your product, you launch. You've sent out press releases, and you're all prepared for "go." And then...
Sometimes things simply fall into place. There's tons of buzz. You pick up customers rapidly.
And sometimes things sort of go nowhere.
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That was the experience of time-tracking software startup Chrometa, who recently ...
PC Magazine - Enough with the talk and quick, fleeting glimpses. Microsoft's finally ready to let us and 1,200 developers play with the next Windows mobile platform.
AP - Scientists will be using laser beams, computer software and airplanes to piece together what they say will be the most detailed map ever assembled of the California coastline.
“Location Check in is so 2010,” Mark Cuban writes today on his blog. His thought is that facial recognition hardware/software installed in public venues is going to replace the need for users to actually check-in to a place.
I absolutely agree. But I think we’re ten years away from that happening. And maybe more.
If you’ve seen the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report, ...
“Location Check in is so 2010,” Mark Cuban writes today on his blog. His thought is that facial recognition hardware/software installed in public venues is going to replace the need for users to actually check-in to a place.
I absolutely agree. But I think we’re ten years away from that happening. And maybe more.
If you’ve seen the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report, ...
During Q&A session after Apple’s press conference on Friday, one of the more interesting things CEO Steve Jobs said was about AT&T. He said that it takes the carrier three years to get approval for a new cell tower in San Francisco. Yes, three years. “That’s the single biggest problem they’re having,” Jobs said.
What’s interesting is that neither Apple nor ...