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Posted 45 Mins Ago in Tech Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, valuing the company at $1.5 billion, will be making two major c... read more
The Weather Channel Beautifies And Socializes Its iPhone App Posted 45 Mins Ago in Tech In an effort to streamline its digital offerings, The Weather Channel has today announced that its popular iPhone app has undergone a major redesign. ... read more
AppHarbor Launches Its Azure Competitor In Europe Posted 2 Hours Ago in Tech Heroku was a hit with Ruby developers because it was an easy-to-use development platform. Others have tried to do the same with other languages such a... read more
Posted 7 Hours Ago in Tech There's been a lot of armchair valuation punditry across the Valley this week. As the Facebook IPO looms, our intricately entwined ecosystem of startu... read more
Posted 10 Hours Ago in Tech There's a new product that just came out of Disney Interactive Labs - a video portal for clips, movie trailers, and even a collection of curated YouTu... read more
Positionly Raises $300,000 For Search Engine Ranking From Point Nine, Others Posted 13 Hours Ago in Tech Search engine ranking startup Positionly has secured $300,000 seed funding from Berlin-based led by seed VC Point Nine Capital and joined by Angels Ma... read more
Forrester: 32.1 Million U.S. Households Now Access Online Video On Their TVs Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech Almost 115 million households in the U.S. currently own at least one TV set and 36 million own four or more. That's a huge market and as Apple, Google... read more
Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech Verizon Wireless has been working on bringing shared data plans to market for months now, but it turns out not everyone may enjoy making that transiti... read more
Third Pivot?s The Charm? Events Site Ravn Becomes Flash Sales Site Touch Of Modern Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech No one ever called a limit on the number pivots a company can do, right? So here's the latest at a company we've been watching for a while now. RAVN, ... read more
How Many Daily Downloads Does It Take To Reach The Top Of The App Store? Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech It's hard to underestimate how important ranking in Apple's top 25 in the iTunes store is for mobile app developers. After all, the top 25 is probably... read more
This Won?t End Well: Toyota Connects With Nintendo DS For In-Car Navigation Interface Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech For some inexplicable reason, Nintendo and Toyota have teamed up to turn the Nintendo DS into a navigational remote control, thereby allowing drivers ... read more
Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech Customers of Time Warner Cable have some reason to rejoice today, as the cable company has gotten the go-ahead to add channels like MTV, VH1, and Come... read more
Bitly Kinda Says It?s Not Raising $20M, But Sorta Hints That It Is Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech Is link shortener Bitly raising $20 million in new funding? The Verge says it is. In response to my email, a company spokesperson denied The Verge's s... read more
It?s Time For A Larger iPhone Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Apple is currently ordering larger screens for the next iPhone. With the usual nonsense, the WSJ ci... read more
Posted 15 Hours Ago in Tech The folks over at Google just love their Google+ social network and more and more Google+ features have been creeping into Gmail lately as well. Today... read more