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What if I told you could work on open source projects full-time and make a living from that? You would get to do what you love and make money for it. That's what Chad Whitacre is looking to accomplish with Gittip. … [Read more...]
Another day, another acquisition by Yahoo. This time, it's PlayerScale, a startup that designs and builds the infrastructures used by many cross-platform games, including those on iOS and Android. Yahoo has had a … [Read more...]
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr will net 26-year-old founder David Karp more than $250 million when the deal closes. That's not bad at all. Tumblr, which raised $125 million in funding since its launch six … [Read more...]
Is it fair to say that a lot of slide decks are pretty boring? PowerPoint has been around for a long, long time, and almost anyone can slap together a bunch of slides with the headline and bullet point templates. We had … [Read more...]
While everyone was clamoring over Yahoo's agreement to acquire Tumblr, two other companies decided to join forces. Online food ordering sites Seamless and GrubHub announced today that they'll be merging to create one … [Read more...]
Yahoo's board approved the plan for the company to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal will be in all cash. Additionally, previous reports said that Tumblr's board had given … [Read more...]
According to a report by All Things D, sources close to the situation surrounding the rumored Yahoo acquisition of Tumblr, say the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion … [Read more...]
Near the end of March, we reported that Samsung was planning to emulate Apple's store-within-a-store model at select Best Buy locations. It seems the initial roll-out has finished, as Samsung is promoting the mini-stores … [Read more...]
Oh boy, I just got an email from an app startup called Hike. The company has developed an app that offers users the ability to share status messages between friends, and recently raised $7 million in funding after … [Read more...]
Babblr, the instant chat tool for tumblr that launched on May 7, has crashed. The company said that the company's servers couldn't handle the 34,000 downloads in three hours that it experienced at launch. Now, Babblr … [Read more...]
Fred Wilson is currently being interviewed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY by Michael Arrington and a topic of discussion that came up was the "Best and Worst Things to do in VC Pitches." If you're not familiar with … [Read more...]
Yahoo! announced a new advertising format it called Yahoo! Stream Ads, its own version of native ads, in an effort reverse its declining ad revenue. Yahoo! Stream ads will work within Yahoo! News Stream, which Yahoo! … [Read more...]
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