Voices

A Year Later, What Google Drive Means for Startups

Building on platforms is one of the greatest opportunities for growth.
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Happy Internet Freedom Day, Y’all

It’s the first anniversary of the online protests against SOPA and PIPA.
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Demand A Plan: Tech Leaders Sign On to Mayors’ Effort to End Gun Violence

Will social media help an effort to ensure gun safety?
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Modria Wants You to Settle Your Workplace Problems (and Even Patent Disputes) Online

And, thanks to the Supreme Court, they’re likely to get their wish.
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How Many Techies Does It Take to Reelect a President? T4O Launches “Innovator Series” Videos for Obama.

Technology4Obama puts its mouth where its mouth is.
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NewsCred Buys DayLife

No more daylight for an early attempt at Web 2.0 new aggregation, which gathered investments from the New York Times and a who’s-who list of digerati.
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Mashery Is the Latest to Be Snared by Craigslist’s Copyright Crusade

Craigslist appears to be employing a scorched-earth strategy.
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Indeed.com Was a Huge Win for the New York Times. But Not as Big as Its Ad Problem.

Venture capitalists would love to get the kind of return the Times just earned on a $5 million investment. But even that’s not enough to fill the hole that classified ads have left.
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News Byte

Apartment Rental Start-Up Zumper Closes $1 Million in Seed Round

Zumper, an apartment rental listing Web site that matches landlords with prospective tenants, announced the closing of its seed funding round on Thursday morning, raising $1 million. The group of initial investors includes Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, NEA and CrunchFund, among others. The team plans to use the capital to expand its engineering resources and continue expanding its rental platform.

Predatory Lawsuits

This also falsely insinuates that craigslist broadly serves humanity as a “free” service, a grossly misleading characterization given craigslist’s accumulation of enormous and largely undisclosed profits, a pattern and practice of predatory lawsuits (such as this one) aimed at obstructing innovation.

– From a claim filed Monday against Craigslist by data company 3Taps, accusing Craigslist of perpetuating a monopoly. Craigslist filed a copyright complaint against 3Taps this summer.

Klout Acquires Local App Blockboard

Sound Bites From the SOPA Strike