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Unface.me Is A Gossip Girl-Style Social Service For Anonymously Trolling Your Friends

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:12:02 +0000

A Russian startup called Unface.me has created a new social network inspired by the Gossip Girl TV series which lets users create an alter ego to — let’s face it — troll their friends, or even post even worst types of gossip entirely anonymously. The s[..]

Facebook’s Head Of Brand Design Paul Adams Joins Customer Outreach Startup Intercom

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:18 +0000

Paul Adams, who was previously Facebook’s global head of brand design, has joined a startup called Intercom, where he will be serving as head of product design.
Adams told me earlier that he wasn’t looking to leave Facebook, but he had also been advising Int[..]

WordPress-Maker Automattic Sells $50 Million Of Stock In Secondary Offering To Tiger Global

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:58:21 +0000

Automattic, the company behind publishing platform WordPress, has sold $50 million in a secondary offering led by investment management firm Tiger Global. The sale will allow some early investors and employees to get cash in exchange for their shares, while adding anoth[..]

More VMware Departures With Two Executives Joining Redpoint Ventures As Entrepreneurs In Residence

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:32:16 +0000

Two VMware executives have left to join Redpoint Ventures to help the firm extend its reach into the enterprise and mobile markets. Their leaving marks a string of recent VMware departures, following the Pivotal spinout of several of the two companies’ product gro[..]

CommonKey Brings Password Management To Small Teams

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:14:37 +0000

There are a number of password management solutions on the market today, but CommonKey, a new browser extension out this week, has a different take. Instead of focusing only on the needs of the individual user or offering a complex solution for the enterprise, it provid[..]

FTC Opens New Investigation into Google’s Advertising Practices: Report – Probe Launched After Complaints Received from Rival Companies

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:57:09 +0000

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a new antitrust investigation into Google’s alleged abuse of its online advertising dominance after receiving complaints from rival companies.
Sources told Bloomberg that FTC investigators are trying to determine if Googl[..]

The Austin TC Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Less Than A Week Away! Get Tickets Now!

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:20:44 +0000

We’re less than a week out from our Austin TC Meetup + Pitch-Off, and I can already smell the barbeque in the air. Austin, are you ready to rumble?
The Austin Meetup + Pitch-Off is going down on Thursday, May 30, at The Stage On Sixth.
The event begins promptly [..]

Jony Ive’s iOS 7 Flat Design Overhaul Reportedly Features A Lot Of Black And White

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:09:10 +0000

A new report from 9to5Mac and its usually well-connected sources today adds a little more color to what we’ll be seeing from the big iOS 7 redesign rumored to be making an appearance at WWDC this year in June – and what we’ll apparently be seeing is a lot[..]

Google Competing Against Facebook to Acquire Navigation App Waze – Israeli Company Waze Reportedly Seeking More Than $1B

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:03:29 +0000

Google, it seems, may be in a bidding war with Facebook to acquire social-navigation app Waze.
Sources have told Bloomberg Google and several other large technology firms have contacted Waze to discuss acquisition since it became public knowledge earlier this month that[..]

The Fairphone, World’s First Ethically Sourced Smartphone, Opens Pre-Sales To General Public

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:24:23 +0000

Netherlands-based hardware initiative Fairphone began around three years ago as a project designed to highlight the use of conflict minerals in the construction of consumer electronics, and then evolved three years later into a full-fledged hardware startup, with the a[..]