Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6 at 7:00 am PT
PayPal’s VP of Mobile David Marcus makes the case for why its mobile payments strategy will prevail in a market surrounded by incumbents.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6 at 6:30 am PT
Check out the photos from a recent visit to PayPal’s San Jose headquarters, where
AllThingsD got an exclusive peek at the company’s brand-new “Shopping Showcase.”
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 19, 2011 at 7:39 am PT
Animoto, a New York-based slide-show service that makes awesomesauce out of pictures and video clips, has launched an iPhone app.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 5, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT
There are a lot of them! And Apple hopes many of them want to buy Apple ads, too.
Kara Swisher in News on November 22, 2010 at 10:38 am PT
A few weeks ago, BoomTown sat down in a hipster coffee place in a hipster section of San Francisco to talk to the hipster trio of founders of AirBnB.
Which, if you think about it, is a very hipster name for what is essentially the ability to rent out your apartment, home or wack-a-doo space (such as a shoe-shaped hotel or Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs estate).
It’s an alternative to other fast-growing similar sites such as VRBO–Vacation Rentals By Owner, only with more style and niche cool. But it did get the traditional venture funding, of course.
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
Tonight, Yahoo is introducing a new set of search upgrades, moving to focus on boosting its experience for consumers as it ports responsibility for underlying search technology to Microsoft under its new partnership.
Among the new enhancements: A vertical “accordion” paradigm with shortcuts on search results that allow for new kinds of information presentation; “quick apps,” beginning with one for Netflix that lets its members add movies to their queue directly from the search results page; slideshows within search from the “Trending Now” lists on Yahoo; more immersive and theater-style photo and video search; and a new mobile search experience that uses HTML5 technology.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 29, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Former Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller has a new gig: A venture-backed Web publishing start-up.
Spanfeller Media Group, which plans to launch a series of new sites, is close to finishing a funding round that I’m told will total around $2 million. Backers include RRE Ventures, Greenhill SAVP, SoftBank and Lerer Media Ventures.
Adam Tow in D8 on May 31, 2010 at 10:18 am PT
We’re a day away from the start of the
D8 conference here at the Terranea Resort in beautiful Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Here are a few photos to whet your appetites before tomorrow!
Kara Swisher in News on May 19, 2010 at 12:05 am PT
Well, it took Microsoft long enough to update the features of Hotmail, which the company is announcing this week.
Lots of new doodads, but it’s a wonder it took so long for Microsoft to upgrade and innovate–Dear Windows Live Hotmail team, conversation views in email is not new to anyone
but you–the service, although it remains No. 2 after Yahoo Mail. Google Gmail is third.
Here is Microsoft’s video of it all.
