The MTA's website was borked this morning after 500,000 New Yorkers tried to find information about the snowstorm, Transportation Nation reports. The influx was almost twice the 270,000 who tried to get to MTA.info during December's... MORE»
Hot on the heels of the $1.5 billion IPO by Demand Media, professional social network LinkedIn has filed its S-1, the first step on the road to public riches. There are some impressive numbers in here, demonstrating again why the current boom in tech is a different animal than the dot-com bubble of a decade... MORE»
Snooki has one, Oprah has one, Barack Obama has at least ten; even the Pope has one. IPhone apps, that is. Celebrity apps tend to be costly and self-indulgent. But you get to keep a famous friend in your pocket, and some of the apps are pretty... MORE»
Tweetdeck users no longer have to agonize over word choice or leave off an important @celeb because of Twitter's 140 character limit. With Deck.ly, which Tweetdeck announced today, users can post messages as long as they want. Other Tweetdeck users will see the whole message, while those on Twitter will get a truncated message with a link to the post on... MORE»
Mark Zuckerberg's fan page has been hacked several times in the past couple days, so its fitting that Facebook is rolling out a several new security measures. And this being Facebook, the new measures are in part social. One new feature, social authentication, works kind of like the standard CAPTCHA, which asks users to type in the text they see... MORE»
A new study by Microsoft shows location based apps like Foursquare may finally be entering the mainstream. Of the 1,500 people queried in an online poll, 51 percent reported having used a location based app in the last... MORE»
Yesterday was the deadline to submit apps for the NYC BigApps contest, which gives out $20,000 in cash prizes for the best apps built using government data, and there are some pretty sweet submissions that will be useful for a wide range of... MORE»
The 10 year expiration date is coming due on a lot of venture capital funds, and many are expected to fold up shop in the next year, unable to raise fresh capital based on their shoddy returns. Investors are increasingly interested in smaller, more agile funds, according to a piece Venture Capital Dispatch. They are seeking a return to the founding days of VC, when former entrepreneurs ran the... MORE»
The I.P.O. drought may be over. Kara Swisher at All Things D reports LinkedIn is poised to begin filing for a public offering as soon as this afternoon, on the heels of New York-based Demand Media's $1.5 billion public... MORE»
As Netflix continues to emerge as a powerhouse in the web tv market, the traditional cable companies are trying to cripple the company by jacking up the price to carry their data. In a letter to shareholders CEO Reed Hastings made it plain the company won't take this lying... MORE»
Caroline McCarthy from CNET has a terrific feature today about the EDC's efforts to bolster the tech industry here in New York. It covers some of the tension between the startup community and the EDC that the Observer highlighted a few weeks... MORE»
A NYU computer science student named Max Stoller has cooked up a winning entry for the NYC Big Apps competition. His app, Don't Eat At, cross references Health Department inspections with Foursquare check-ins. Any eatery with less than 28 points will trigger a text message warning upon check in, and as Stoller points out, "There are 1660 restaurants that have scored 28 or more points and have not yet been closed. Do you really want to eat at a place like... MORE»
Tumblr's new 404 mascot, the Tumbeast, is beating Twitter's fail whale by a landslide in a popularity contest at This or That. Users prefered the drooly Tumbeasts, created by Matt Inman of webcomic The Oatmeal, over the fail whale, 84 percent to 16 percent. (The fail whale still has four times as many followers on Twitter, though.) "It's a #TumbeastTakeover!" the new mascot tweeted... MORE»
Amazing news from The Wall Street Journal's Deal Journal blog: The New York Times Co., which operates the paper of record, apparently thought pretty hard about buying a big stake (49 percent!) in much-maligned, just-IPO'd content farm of journalistic misery and eHow.com operator Demand... MORE»
Investors who had been eagerly awaiting their chance to buy into Internet telephony service provider Skype will have to wait yet another long six months or so. The Wall Street Journal reports that the recent installment of CEO Tony Bates and potential trouble in the IPO market are holding the company back from its foray onto a public exchange. A Journal source on the... MORE»
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