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Five Years Of SoundCloud

Our portfolio company SoundCloud turned five years old yesterday. To celebrate they posted this 6 minute clip where 5 soundclouders tell their stories. What I like so much about this is that each of...

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The NSA Leaks Have Been Crushing US Tech Sales In China

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. technology companies including Cisco Systems Inc and IBM Corp are facing unprecedented difficulties selling their goods and services in China, as fallout from the U.S. spying...

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Apple Wants Samsung To Pay $380 Million In New Patent Trial

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Apple squared off against Samsung Electronics at a damages retrial on Wednesday, as the iPhone maker once again tries to secure a legal victory against its biggest...

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Fun Feature Friday: Embeddable Media In The Comments

I got wind of this yesterday in the comments to my SoundCloud post. You can now put a link to media that is embeddable (tweet, image, video, audio, etc) and Disqus will attach the media to the comment....

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How Android Became An Existential Threat To Apple

This is an excerpt from DOGFIGHT: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution by Fred Vogelstein, published in October 2013 by Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and...

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3 Things San Francisco's Bat Kid Teaches Us About Twitter

There is a new superhero in town.His name is Miles and he is a 5-year-old California boy who has been battling leukemia since he was a toddler. Miles and his parents teamed up with the Make-A-Wish...

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Video Of The Week: Ben Milne on TWIST

I found this video in my YouTube suggested video feed. It's a Jason Calacanis interview of Ben Milne, the founder of our portfolio company Dwolla. It's a good discussion of why the credit card system...

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Snapchat's Value: 'A Form Of Delusion'

SnapChat is “worth” more than $3 billion.Okay, sure, depending on how you define the term worth.If by worth you mean what some other person is willing to pay for it, then yes, sure. But if by worth...

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These 10 British Tech Startups Are Growing At A Rapid Pace

British technology firms continue to grow at a rapid pace despite the uncertain economic environment, pushing into areas from television and media to payment processing and internet dating.Now...

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Software vs Hardware

One of the things I am noticing is the trend to try to solve problems with software instead of dedicated hardware. That makes sense for a whole bunch of reasons, but the biggest ones are that the...

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Inside The Apple-Google Smartphone War [EXCERPT]

This is an excerpt from "DOGFIGHT: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution" by Fred Vogelstein, published in October 2013 by Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and...

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Nike+ FuelBand SE in Rose Gold

Bling your Nike+ FuelBand SE with the Rose Gold limited-edition for $169. After the success of the gold iPhone 5S, it’s not a surprise that Nike gave their FuelBand the golden touch. For stylish...

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People Are Starting To Buy Those $35 'Raspberry Pi' Mini-Computers

Over 2m Raspberry Pi computers have been sold globally since going on sale for around £30 in February 2012.It took a year to sell the first million of the card-sized barebones computers, but sales...

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Fintech Innovation Lab 2014

I have written about the Fintech Innovation Lab here before. It's one of the first vertical accelerator programs that have cropped up in NYC and its one of the best. They take a handful of promising...

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TRADER: Here Are The Two Pillars Of Facebook's Bear Case You Should Know In...

By all accounts Facebook put up a big Q3 when they reported on Oct. 30th.  Upside in daily active users, mobile usage and mobile revenues nearing 50%, operating margins jumping 7% year over year to...

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Apple Has Another Chance To Block Samsung Phones From Being Sold In The US

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court is ordering a lower court to reconsider Apple's attempt to block eight Samsung phones from the U.S. market because the products violate patents held by Apple.The...

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Buying Your Holiday Gifts With Bitcoin

Everyone focuses on the price of Bitcoin these days and it is no wonder why. But for Bitcoin to be anything more than a store of value, we need to see a transactional ecosystem develop. When the...

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Samsung Says It Has Sold 800,000 Galaxy Gear Smart Watches In Two Months

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said on Tuesday its Galaxy Gear has become the world's most popular smartwatch with sales reaching 800,000 since its debut two months ago, defying some market...

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Vimeo Just Revealed Its Revenue For The First Time

As one of the media properties tucked away within IAC/Interactive Corp's vast group of online holdings, executives are putting the spotlight on Vimeo, breaking out the number of users and revenue for...

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A Furious Alex Rodriguez Denies He Used Steroids And Says Suspension Is About...

Wednesday afternoon, Alex Rodriguez stormed out of the arbitrator hearing handling the appeal of his 211-game suspension when he learned that commissioner Bud Selig would not testify. After, Rodriguez...

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