Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said) — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are launching their much-anticipated $300 million venture fund this evening, aptly called Andreessen Horowitz. — The fund will make investments of $50,000 to $50 million …
Archive for July 5th, 2009
Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said) (Sarah Lacy/TechCrunch)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Nokia turns to Android in phone wars (Richard Wray/Guardian)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Nokia turns to Android in phone wars — Finnish mobile phone giant changes strategy to increase share in the only growing market — Nokia is understood to be developing a mobile phone that runs on Google’s Android software platform in a strategic U-turn for the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer.
4chan may be behind attack on Twitter (Harrison Hoffman/CNET News)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Harrison Hoffman / CNET News:
4chan may be behind attack on Twitter — Update: Twitter has reacted to this raid by removing the term from its trending topics, but evidence can still be found on Twitter Search. — Twitter saw a huge influx of fake accounts on Sunday, pushing the NSFW trending topic, #gorillapenis, all […]
MI6 boss in Facebook entry row (BBC)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
BBC:
MI6 boss in Facebook entry row — Personal details about the life of the next head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, have been removed from social networking site Facebook amid security concerns. — The Mail on Sunday said his wife had put details about their children and the location of their flat on the […]
Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox … (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome — The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 …
How I Tweet: Just the FAQs (Guy Kawasaki/How to Change the World)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Guy Kawasaki / How to Change the World:
How I Tweet: Just the FAQs — General — Question: How can you follow so many people? — Answer: I don’t read the timelines of all the people that I follow. Instead, I only deal with @s, Directs, and tweets that contain “guykawasaki” and “alltop.”
IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life (David Sarno/Los Angeles Times)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
David Sarno / Los Angeles Times:
IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life — Buyers are finding that the device has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. — The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life — but its battery […]
The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray. (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray. — One thing I hated about being a corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini back in the day - we got to work on really cool deals (the last deal I worked on before leaving for a startup was the AOL/Netscape merger), but […]