Pete Cashmore's Mashable--"Social Media News and Web Tips"--dominates the tech blogosphere. The site has 2.2 million followers on Twitter (where the brand still leverages Mr. Cashmore's sculpted face as its avatar), 439,000 fans on Facebook, and more than 60,000 followers on Foursquare. A positive review on Mashable can crush a young app's website with... MORE»
The battle for top talent in the tech world has been accelerating recently, to the point where Google gave all its employees a 10 percent raise. Now New York Q&A site Stack Overflow is making it easier for programers feeling that seven year itch to head out for greener pastures by launching an updated jobs section today called Careers... MORE»
The sheets are still warm from the joint rollout of The Daily by Apple and Newscorp, but it sounds like the iPad only newspaper is already playing the... MORE»
Goldman Sachs recently created quite a sensation when it invested nearly half a billion dollars in Facebook. Now the investment bank is putting $70 million into AppSense, a desktop virtualization company headquarted in New... MORE»
Making fun of Demand Media is so easy, even the Wall Street Journal can't help biting its tongue: [CEO Richard] Rosenblatt said the niche articles eHow writes about - How to Log In as Guest on Rosetta Stone, for example - may not be everyone's cup of tea, but people want and need this... MORE»
New York's LimeWire was housed in a gorgeous Soho office at the time the company gave up the ghost in December after too many run-ins with music labels and the law. The former LimeWire space was sunny with dark wood floors, and whoever decorated it had excellent taste in furniture. Lucky for any New Yorkers or New York startups who are in the market for tables and chairs, pieces of the decor are being sold on the... MORE»
Justin Wohlstadter navigated easily through the crush of long-legged beauties and laptop jockeys crowding the lobby of the Ace Hotel on a chilly Thursday night. His informal office when he’s not in the U.K. doing postgraduate work at Oxford, the wood-paneled bar is also his hunting ground for tech deals to fund as director of the investment company Penny Black, named for the world’s first prepaid adhesive stamp—“a ‘game changing’ idea,” as the Web site describes... MORE»
Apple rejected the New York-based Readability's app, which strips ads from content, on the grounds that it refreshes content without adhering to the new Apple rules seemingly designed for subscription-based content providers such as magazines and... MORE»
This morning all the tech blogs were a-Twitter over Amazon's move into streaming movies. Netflix fired back this afternoon by announcing a new content deal with CBS. Some golden oldies are in the mix, including full seasons of Star Trek, Frasier and... MORE»
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new startup Square announced it's slashing credit card transaction fees today. The small, white device plugs into a smartphone and processes credit card swipes on the spot, a convenience for which Square used to charge 2.75 percent of the transaction plus a 15-cent fee. Now, the flat fee is gone. "A simple revolution," Mr. Dorsey... MORE»
Start bugging your local Geniuses! Apple is going to reveal the specs on the second generation iPad on March 2, Kara Swisher is... MORE»
In the city's latest attempt to make public records accessible to New Yorkers, permits posted on city buildings will now include scannable codes that link to information about the construction... MORE»
At a small-business forum in Cleveland today, President Obama announced that AOL founder, LivingSocial venture capitalist and philanthropist Steve Case will join the White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Mr. Case, who orchestrated his company's catastrophic merger with Time Warner, is already the president's "start-up czar" and chair of the Startup America entrepreneurial program. On the jobs panel, he joins Jeffrey Immelt and Paul Otellini, CEO of... MORE»
Richard Blakeley, editor-in-chief of video site Gawker.TV, is teaching a $15 workshop on viral-video creation at General Assembly on March 1. Who'd spend $15 to learn how to gain YouTube megastardom? Blakeley tells the Observer that viral videos have vast use for businesses (he cited, for instance, the phenomenally popular Old Spice advertisements of last year). "Say you're trying to promote shoes.... MORE»
SeatGeek, which helps users find the best deals on tickets being sold on the secondary market, is on a roll. Today the company announced a new investment from courtside celebs, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s A Grade... MORE»
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