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Kara Swisher in Social on February 8 at 3:00 am PT
TastemakerX, a San Francisco start-up that is developing a social mobile platform focused on “targeted taste graphs,” said it had raised $1.8 million in funding from a variety of venture firms, including Guggenheim Partners, Baseline Ventures, True Ventures and Tekton Ventures, as well as angel investors. The company said it will release its TastemakerX Music mobile app as a private beta in early March 2012.
Kara Swisher in Enterprise on November 2, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
In Sanskrit, “asana” means “sitting down” and refers to strong but relaxed postures in yoga, presumably so frustrated workers can achieve a digital form of nirvana.
Drake Martinet in News on October 14, 2011 at 2:15 pm PT
New York-based start-up Instinct wants the next generation of rock stars to get their training right from the Web browser, and it is building a teaching tool to do it.
Drake Martinet in Commerce on September 30, 2011 at 9:01 am PT
A new start-up called Kitchit is launching a service that allows even the ketchup class to book a high-end chef for private in-home dining. (I wonder if they’ll let you order PB&J.)
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on September 7, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT
Walt reviews Digital Folio, free software that lets you gather online shopping products to compare retailer prices.
Kara Swisher in Mobile on August 12, 2011 at 4:51 pm PT
Dear Everyone: Chillax, because, as we said, you’ll have to wait until October.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 8, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Research In Motion is testing a new app that simplifies the often painful process of dialing in–and redialing into–a conference call. Now, if they could just do something about that annoying hold music.
Kara Swisher in News on March 21, 2011 at 6:19 pm PT
As it gets ramped up for a wider launch, Asana, the high-profile group collaboration start-up founded by top former Facebook execs, has hired former SolarWinds product strategy exec Kenny Van Zant in a “COO-type of role.”
Co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein remain at the top of the leadership at the San Francisco company, which–perhaps in keeping with its yoga-style name–does not have official titles.
But Van Zant will essentially fulfill the COO role, focusing on bringing Asana to the enterprise market in a socially-fueled “bottom-up” approach.
Kara Swisher in News on February 24, 2011 at 11:12 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown paid a long overdue visit on the Mountain View, Calif., HQ of Mozilla, the unusual public-private company that makes the Firefox browser, to chat with its (relatively) new CEO Gary Kovacs (pictured here).
There is a lot to talk about with the new exec, especially the near-to-official launch of Firefox 4, the increasing competition with Google and its Chrome efforts and where Mozilla goes next (mobile).
