Job-seeker iPhone app beamME CV debutsFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Mobile-native business networking company rmbrME has launched the first iPhone application dedicated exclusively to helping people network for jobs via their handset: beamME CV.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/coajODVqiic" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Amazon launches shopping app for BlackBerryFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Amazon.com Inc. has lauched its latest mobile offering, the Amazon App for BlackBerry, which is now available as a free download directly from its Web site.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/yY_iKXRNmuM" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
CBS runs interactive mobile campaign to promote miniseriesFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile CBS is turning to mobile to promote its upcoming 13-episode television murder mystery event, #8482;Harper�s Island,� which premiered yesterday.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/yQEtCP1RKRw" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Procter Gamble�s Charmin brand runs first mobile sponsorshipFriday, April 10, 2009Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Procter Gamble Co.�s Charmin, the nation�s No. 1 toilet paper brand, debuted its first mobile sponsorship, working with bathroom directory SitOrSquat on its site and mobile applications.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/NgLUMsD9nyY" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Cleantech could top venture capital within five yearsThursday, April 9, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Cleantech could be the largest area for venture capital investment within five years if not sooner, Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, told VentureBeat in an interview. The NVCA has been bullish on cleantech for several years now, but the stars do seem to be aligning in new, momentous ways. The trade group [...] Read more |
Yelp lets businesses set the record straight with owner commentsThursday, April 9, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Yelp is trying to make business owners a little less cranky about getting dissed on the popular review site by allowing them to respond publicly to reviews they believe are inaccurate. The site, which is best known for its restaurant reviews, helps business owners by giving them online exposure without paying for expensive ads, and its [...] Read more |
Truuconfessions: Say the Inappropriate Things You Can’t Tweet AboutThursday, April 9, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pThis post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details a href="http://mashable.com/bizspark"here/a. The series is made possible by a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/BizSpark/Pages/At_a_Glance.aspx?WT.mc_id=MSZ_Mashable_posts"Microsoft BizSpark./a/p pName: a href="http://www.truuconfessions.com/"truuconfessions/a/p pQuick Pitch: truuconfessions is a microblog where women confess what they#8217;re really thinking. [...] Read more |
Time Warner Offers More Pricing Options to Sweeten Its TiersThursday, April 9, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Time Warner Cable, after bearing the hatred of the digerati, its customers and even the financial community for its attempts to meter broadband use, has released more information about its pricing plans. It also offered a teaser assuring the world that it plans to one day launch the super-fast DOCSIS 3.0 service that other [...] Read more |
The new City on a Hill is solar-poweredThursday, April 9, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Utopian experiments have finally gone high-tech. Today, Florida real estate developer and former NFL linebacker Syd Kitson announced his intentions to build the U.S.’s first city powered entirely by solar energy. Dubbed “Babcock Ranch,” the 17,000-acre community will include residential, commercial and industrial zones, and draw all of its electricity from a 75-megawatt solar array [...] Read more |
Mitsubishi jumps into U.S. electric car race with i MiEV… in Oregon?Thursday, April 9, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Venture-backed electric car companies have been getting the lion’s share of attention these days. Fisker Automotive just raised a cool $85 million to produce its hybrid-electric Karma, and Tesla Motors has been abuzz since unveiling its Model S sedan. But that doesn’t mean the traditional auto titans are down and out. Just today, Mitsubishi announced [...] Read more |
Mitsubishi jumps into U.S. electric car race with i MiEV . . . in Oregon?Thursday, April 9, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Venture-backed electric car companies have been getting the lion’s share of attention these days. Fisker Automotive just raised a cool $85 million to produce its hybrid-electric Karma, and Tesla Motors has been abuzz since unveiling its Model S sedan. But that doesn’t mean the traditional auto titans are down and out. Just today, Mitsubishi announced [...] Read more |
Vevo: YouTube and Universal Team Up for Music Video WebsiteThursday, April 9, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pMusic videos are already really popular on YouTube. In fact, 10 of the 15 a href="http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp#038;t=a" target="_blank"most popular videos/a of all-time on the website are official music videos, uploaded by the record companies themselves. Nonetheless, YouTube and Universal Music Group are trying something new, and have announced plans to launch a website called a href="http://www.vevo.com" target="_blank"Vevo/a that will feature “premium video content.”/p pWhy launch a separate website to do what YouTube already does well, and is planning to emphasize even further in an a href="http://mashable. [...] Read more |
Ev’s Advice For Startups: “Do Something Awesome”Thursday, April 9, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology Twitter co-founder Ev Williams is on the Web video show Tekzilla in an interview conducted by Veronica Belmont on-stage last week at the Web 2.0 Expo. It was the same day that Biz Stone was in New York taping the Colbert Report. The best part of the interview is when Ev starts answering questions from the audience submitted via Twitter, which is where the clip starts after the jump. The first question is what advice would he give to someone trying to build their own startup. His answer: Read more |
Facebook Finally Lets You Comment on Wall PostsThursday, April 9, 2009Source: Mashable | Category: Social pSome of my friends have been known to give me flack for not replying to posts to my “Wall” on Facebook (and in earlier times, MySpacea href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336652-MySpace" target="_blank" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336652-MySpace.whtml" class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-03"MySpace reviews/a). The main reason I usually don’t do this is because I think it’s a silly way to have a conversation – you end up with random comments on your wall that don’t make any sense to the other people viewing your profile. [...] Read more |
Universal inks deal with YouTube — forget paying for news, these music videos are freeThursday, April 9, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology The Associated Press and a range of newspaper leaders trashed online news aggregators large and small earlier this week, calling them parasites and other foul terms — and demanding that everyone start paying for doing things like republishing excerpts of news articles. Those who make a living off the internet responded in kind, even resorting [...] Read more |
Universal deal with YouTube frees up music videos (just as newspapers threaten to charge for articles)Thursday, April 9, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology The Associated Press and a range of newspaper leaders trashed online news aggregators large and small earlier this week, calling them parasites and other foul terms and demanding that everyone start paying for doing things like republishing excerpts of news articles (or even paying for any access whatsoever). Those who make a living off the [...] Read more |
Viewers Flock To CBS Sports For March Madness: 8.6 Million Total Hours WatchedThursday, April 9, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology CBS Sports has just released the final tally of their traffic figures for this year’s NCAA March Madness, and the results are pretty staggering. Over the course of the tournament, viewers watched a total of 8.6 million total hours of streamed audio and video (75% over the 4.92 million last year). 7.52 [...] Read more |
Style never dies: Luxury clothing maker J. Hilburn raises $4MThursday, April 9, 2009Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology J. Hilburn, a company that sells custom men’s clothing, has raised a $4 million first round from Battery Ventures. The Dallas, Texas startup may seem like an odd investment for a tech-focused venture firm — and its luxury product sounds particularly head-scratching given the economic climate. I would imagine that many folks are cutting back on [...] Read more |
Is Microsoft Turning Away From Commodity Servers?Thursday, April 9, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media This week’s news of a chip designer leaving Sun to work for Microsoft could be a sign that the Redmond giant is trying to build a closer relationship between its software and others’ hardware as a way to boost performance of applications and use the underlying chips more efficiently. It may be trying to optimize [...] Read more |
YouTube And UMG Team For VEVO Premium Music HubThursday, April 9, 2009Source: TechCrunch | Category: Technology During a conference call this morning Google and Universal Music Group annouced the upcoming launch of VEVO, a site billed as ‘premium online music hub built for consumers, advertisers, and content owners..’. The site will include UMG’s catalog of music videos, and will be powered by YouTube’s technology. The two companies will share [...] Read more |
