Archive for February, 2011

Meet The Newest Founders Den Tenant: Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom

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Last month, we first wrote about Founders Den, a new “private clubhouse” for entrepreneurs in the heart of San Francisco’s SoMa district. In that short amount of time, they’ve grown quickly and are now just about filled to the brim with young entrepreneurs working on a wide range of new startups. But their newest tenant is one they could have never anticipated: Gavin [...]
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The Oscars, On Twitter: Over 1.2 Million Tweets, 388K Users Tweeting

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Twitter has changed the way we watch television. Say what you will about the 83rd Annual Oscars (and thus far the consensus is “meh”), you’ve probably already said it on Twitter.  Mass Relevance and TweetReach, a Twitter analytics service with commercial access to the Twitter API, have teamed up to make a data map of yesterday’s mass conversation. Over 20 Oscar-related terms [...]
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Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition

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Intel has officially completed its acquisition of security giant McAfee, according to a release issued today. Intel announced the $7.68 billion, all-cash deal last August. According to the release, McAfee will continue developing and selling security products and services under its own brand and “first fruits of their strategic partnership” will be brought to market later in 2011. McAfee [...]
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When Will Apple Cave And Accept Flash? Maybe When It Doesn’t Suck

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I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe’s Flash technology on its iOS devices within a year. I don’t think that’s going to happen. In an open letter to users, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave several reasons why he didn’t want Flash on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. They are: Flash isn’t open; the full web; reliability, [...]
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Storm Clouds: Gmail Failure Reinforces Danger Of Becoming Too Cloud-Dependent

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Surely by now you’ve heard of the problems people have been having with their Gmail accounts. E-mails have been deleted, accounts have been disabled, and while Google has been hard at work trying to make everything right, it’s just another example of why moving your entire life to the cloud may not always be the best idea. Read more…
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Keen On… Peter Guber: “If You Can’t Tell It, You Can’t Sell It” (TCTV)

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“I was born curious,” Peter Guber confessed to me when he came into the TechCrunch studio earlier this month. We should all be so curious. The legendary Guber – whose list of accomplishments as a superstar Hollywood producer (Rain Man, Batman, Midnight Express, Flashdance etc.), broadcaster, university professor, best-selling writer, new media mogul (board member of Demand Media) and sports franchise [...]
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Chomp May Have Just Solved The Nightmare That Is Android App Search

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Regardless of what you think about the Android platform, there’s no denying that the Market experience for finding apps is pretty poor. And that’s putting it nicely. Google has evolved the experience over the years, and the web-based Market helps a lot. But on the phone, even with Gingerbread, it’s far from great. Today, Chomp, the app search engine, launches an experience for Android [...]
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YouCeleb Lets You Look Like a Star For Cheap

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Do you secretly wish you could look like a celebrity but don’t have the entourage, yacht, or cash flow to make it possible? Well, thanks to YouCeleb, an e-commerce site launching today, now you can look — and feel — like a celebrity. (A sober one, of course.) The startup offers daily deals and discounts on designer fashion that celebrities wear after the cameras stop rolling. Here’s [...]
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Dow Chemical Spending $100 Million On Energy Efficiency, Emissions Reduction

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The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) — which makes specialty materials and chemicals for electronics, automotive, water, energy and agricultural sectors — today announced that it aims to green its own operations, in part, by investing $100 million in internally pitched projects that will reduce the company’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Doug May, vice president [...]
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FlyRuby Aims to Be the Kayak of Private Air Travel

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Launching today at the Demo Conference in Palm Springs is flyRuby, a platform that enables you to search, compare, and book private air charters online. There is something to be said for startups that identify successful services and business models and apply those to under-served niche markets. Through its website, flyRuby hopes to deliver a quick and efficient way to book private air charter that [...]
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