Kara Swisher in News on March 7 at 12:38 pm PT
Dr. Evil couldn’t make it, so heeeeeere’s Jason!
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 29 at 11:58 am PT
The rumors are true. But, boy, were they ever off on the numbers.
Liz Gannes in News on January 25 at 2:00 am PT
Stanford and Google’s Sebastian Thrun announced on stage that he is giving up his tenured professorship to teach free online courses at a new start-up he’s founded, called Udacity.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 5 at 3:23 pm PT
It’s the first player in the small, rapidly growing mobile ad business to go public instead of selling to a bigger fish.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 9, 2011 at 5:59 am PT
Once is a fluke, but two in as many months begins to look like a pattern.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on November 7, 2011 at 10:01 am PT
Orchestra, which calls its iPhone and Web productivity and collaboration app “group chat disguised as a to-do list,” has raised $5 million in funding less than two months after it launched (
we broke the news here). The new funding for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company led by Apple and Ideo alums comes from Charles River Ventures and SV Angel.
Liz Gannes in News on September 6, 2011 at 11:53 am PT
Mashape, an up-and-coming marketplace for APIs, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding — which, given some of the names backing it, seems like a pretty small amount.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 22, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Yammer, once known as a “Twitter for Work,” is transforming itself a key player in the fast-growing business of making enterprise applications more social.
Liz Gannes in Social on May 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm PT
The start-up LikeALittle, or LAL, had fended off NetworkEffect’s reportorial advances for weeks. Funny, considering the site helps people flirt with one another.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 21, 2011 at 3:29 pm PT
Q&A start-up PeerPong has closed, and competitor Formspring has already picked up PeerPong CEO Ro Choy to serve as its COO.
