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Last week, Bing began the initial phase of rolling out a major redesign, in fact the "most significant" redesign in its three-year history. Today, the wait is over. This afternoon, Bing officially turned on its...Rdio’s Major Redesign Gives Listeners A Unified View, Enhanced Sharing, Private Playlists & More
There's currently a heated battle being waged between three of the biggest on-demand music streaming services -- MOG, Spotify, and Rdio -- each of which is trying to capture our hearts and ears by offering the best...How To Appeal To Investors: Top VCs Reveal The Anatomy Of A Successful Entrepreneur
At a very fundamental level, the venture capital business is being reshaped. Speaking to a crowd at the Grind work space in New York last week, Fred Wilson addressed this ongoing shift, saying, "there’s...Marc Andreessen Visits Peter Thiel’s Stanford Class To Talk Startups, How He Invests & The Future
It wasn't so long ago that Peter Thiel began publicly pushing the somewhat controversial idea that higher education is in a bubble, or launching an initiative to help smart young people "stop out of...Startups Court Dev Bootcamp’s Ruby Grads: 88% Have Offers At Average Of $79K
This year, Shereef Bishay came up with an ambitious engineering and educational challenge: Try to take 20 aspiring developers, at various levels of ability, teach them Ruby on Rails, and have them job-ready in 10 weeks. The...Consmr Goes Mobile, Moves Closer To Becoming Yelp For The Supermarket
Back in July of last year, we wrote about a New York City-based startup, called Consmr, which was attempting to build the Yelp, or Rotten Tomatoes of consumer goods. There's now more web research on consumer...Triposo’s Mobile Travel Guide Now Actively Recommends Your Next Destination; CrunchFund Invests
Back in September, Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, two ex-Googlers, unveiled their new mobile travel guide, Triposo, setting out to do for travel content what Google and PageRank did for search. The startup developed a...Crowdfunding: $1.5B Raised, 1M Campaigns Funded In 2011; Figures Set To Double In 2012
Well, it's been quite a year already for the crowdfunding industry. With the JOBS Act becoming law, the tech industry (and the economy) are headed for some big changes, as the legalization of crowdfunding in startups for non-accredited investors has come...