SoftTech

Ex-AdMob Employees Make Paying for Things on the Phone a Snap

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 23, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

A company founded by two former AdMob employees, and funded in part by AdMob’s Founder Omar Hamoui, is coming out of stealth mode today to unveil a new way to make paying for things inside applications much easier.

Loïc Le Meur Speaks About New (and Improved?) Seesmic!

Kara Swisher in News on September 18, 2009 at 4:11 am PT

When BoomTown went to visit serial entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur early last year at his San Francisco HQ, he was stoked about the prospects of his “video conversation” community start-up. Fast-forward to today and the entire business plan of Seesmic has been upended, with the video part pretty much junked. Now Le Meur is focused almost entirely on his social media desktop client, as well as Web and mobile versions, which began as a dashboard for Twitter. If at first you don’t succeed, dump and change again–the motto of Silicon Valley!

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words–So What Does a Big Smile in a Layoff Story Mean?

Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2008 at 9:42 am PT

Happy days aren’t here again, it seems. Still, I am not quite sure what to make of his big, happy smile on Seesmic founder Loïc Le Meur’s face, which went with a story in the New York Times about start-ups cutting costs. In fact, the whole Seesmic crew is grinning awfully hard, putting a very game face on recent layoffs that cut the staff at the video blog service by more than a third.