Huge $1 Billion Bids For Hulu Came In Over The Weekend
(Reuters) - Satellite operator DirecTV and two other bidders have offered more than $1 billion apiece to buy Hulu, a source with knowledge of the bidding process said on Friday, increasing the...
View ArticleThe Creepiest Google Glass Feature Has Been Banned: No Facial Recognition...
Google Glass is currently being trialled by ‘Explorers’ as the company tries to perfect it for a commercial launch and bids to understand public concerns.In an announcement on Glass’s Google+ page, the...
View ArticleFidelity Dumps More Apple Stock (AAPL)
BOSTON (Reuters) - After cutting its stake in Apple Inc by 12 percent in the first quarter, Fidelity's Contrafund trimmed its holdings in the iPhone maker by another 9 percent in April.Contrafund, run...
View ArticleSome Thoughts On Mobile
People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people who run internet companies and they’ll tell you that user behavior on tablets is far more similar to...
View ArticleWhy Wall Street's Just Not That Into Facebook Anymore
From FB’s May highs on the 2nd to the lows this past Wednesday, the stock nearly entered official bear market mode, down almost 20%, before bouncing after receiving a couple ratings upgrades yesterday...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Is On The Front Lines Of The Global Cyber War
As Obama calls out Chinese cyber-attackers, Silicon Valley leads charge against hackersSAN JOSE, California (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk...
View ArticleCONFIRMED: Email Is Stressing You Out
Email is supposed to make modern life easier, but it is making workers more stressed than ever as they struggle to stay on top of hundreds of messages per day, according to researchers.Reading and...
View ArticleGoogle+ Isn't A Social Network — It's The Matrix
In The Matrix, the hacker Neo discovers how the world is keeping track of what he does. Google+ likes to do the same.Pretty much everyone (myself included) has been reading Google+ wrongly. Because it...
View ArticleThe Three Letter Domain
As we were debating in our monday meeting yesterday about our brand, USV vs Union Square Ventures, I made the point that our URL is our brand and we use usv.com. I am a fan of the three letter domain....
View ArticleThe World's Second Biggest PC-Maker Is Raising Monster Piles Of Cash To Take...
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC maker, is in detailed discussions on a smartphone venture with NEC Corp, a Japanese partner in PCs whose mobile business is...
View ArticleWhy Startups Need a Well Articulated Strategy (And How to Think About Yours)
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View ArticleThe 10 Fitness Apps That Could Make Gyms Obsolete
If you’ve been slow to start your New Year’s resolution to get fit in 2013, it may be because you’re having a hard time getting to the gym — or can’t afford a membership.The good news is if you have a...
View ArticleMobile Is Eating The World
Benedict Evans is quickly becoming my favorite Internet analyst. I follow his blog and twitter religiously. This slideshare he posted a few weeks ago is an example of his excellent work:2013 05 BEA -...
View ArticleApple Is About To Go On A Massive Hiring Spree
Apple to expand Silicon Valley workforce by nearly 50 percent while building new headquartersSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple expects to expand its Silicon Valley workforce by nearly 50 percent during the...
View ArticleMicrosoft And The FBI Are Teaming Up To Take Down A Global Cyber Crime Ring
BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and the FBI, aided by authorities in more than 80 countries, have launched a major assault on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings, believed to have stolen...
View ArticleDIY Data Science In Action
I wrote a post about DIY Data Science back in March. In that post I said that hacking on public data sets and posting about it has the potential to be a big deal in the coming years. I saw a great...
View ArticleThe End Of YouTube's Deal With Apple Created A Staggeringly Big Mobile Ad...
YouTube has tripled its mobile advertising revenues in the last six months, and the key factor may have been the removal of the YouTube app from Apple's iOS software.The growth stat comes from a...
View ArticleSamsung Shares Dive On Reports That Sales Are Losing Momentum
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co lost $12 billion in market value on Friday, hit by brokerage downgrades that have underscored concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4...
View ArticleFeature Friday: Standing Up For Your Users
I saw this yesterday and it made me so happy:The list of technology companies allegedly participating in a vast US government surveillance program known as PRISM, which was just reported by the...
View ArticleSAMSUNG SMASHED: $12 Billion Disappears In Market Cap As Smartphone Sales Slow
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co lost $12 billion in market value on Friday, hit by brokerage downgrades that have underscored concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4...
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