There's been a lot of armchair valuation punditry across the Valley this week. As the Facebook IPO looms, our intricately entwined ecosystem of startups and investors seeks to benefit from the domino effect of a population feeling...Quora Investor Peter Thiel: “The Samwers Are Never Going To Clone Quora,”
There's been a lot of armchair valuation punditry across the Valley this week. As the Facebook IPO looms, our intricately entwined ecosystem of startups and investors seeks to benefit from the domino effect of a population feeling...Circle: If Highlight And Path Had A Beautiful Ambient Location Child
The people behind college flirting network Likealittle have launched a new app in the App Store, Circle, an app that attempts to be more granular and thoughtful about the burgeoning ambient location space, which includes startups like...David Karp, Jonah Peretti And Adrian Grenier Are All Ready To Disrupt NYC
We're sitting in a conference at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park watching Disrupt companies rehearse and it's reminding me, Disrupt NYC is almost here! (Also, I think I just stole somebody's food.)
Other than the fact that I love and miss New...Scouting Deals? Use These Apps
Oh the "where do I find hot startups?" problem … VCs have been grappling with this for ages, resorting to such avenues as rampant gossiping, reading TechCrunch, informally tapping into early stage investor networks for intros to...Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee
A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee.
The company has already shut down the developer’s passive location app. All three co-founders, Glancee’s only full-time employees,...
Why We’re Still At TechCrunch
Sometimes people ask me why we're still here even though we're owned by poopy pants Aol , and I'm all like, "Huh what? Oh I'm sorry I'm drunk, who are you again?"
Lolz.
Okay so the real reason...
AOL Successfully Implementing the Right Strategy to Deliver Long-Term Stockholder Value
I know we've been taking the piss out of Aol* all day, but someone in Aol PR must be drunk, because this bizarre "BREAKING: Board Has Presided over Improvement of AOL's Operating Results and Financial Strength...Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M
For a social network that's, for lack of a better term, monogamous, social network for couples Pair has just raised funding from so many high-profile investors I'm having trouble picking who to include in this headline,...All-Star Cast Invests 750K In Ben Huh And Matt Galligan’s Mobile News Startup Circa
SimpleGeo's Matt Galligan and Icanhascheezburger's Ben Huh have teamed up to change the way people consume news via mobile. Their startup Circa, which boasts a newsworthy list of advisors like former Digg CEO Jay Adelson, has just...How Ridiculous Does This Headline Sound?
So I am sitting here staring at this New York Times article and it is titled"Apple Chief’s Offhand Comment Spawns Internet Quip," which is probably one of the most ridiculous news headlines I've ever seen, bar...Apple Stores Continue To Be A Juggernaut, With $4.4B In Revenue, 85M Visitors To Stores In Q2
Apple just reported its second quarter earnings, revealing that the revenue from its Apple Stores was at 4.4 billion, an increase of 38 percent year over year.
Apple stores were responsible for a little over 10% of...Quora Is Raising At A $400M Valuation, With D’Angelo Putting In His Own Money
It's really beautiful outside. Like so beautiful if San Francisco is like this more often it will become really expensive to live here. Also, Quora is raising money according to the multiple people in the past week...Follow seriouslytech on Twitter!
