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Tinychat Raises $1.5M From Kutcher, Diddy And Others, Is Just Getting Started
Fast-growing video communication and messaging platform provider Tinychat, which started out with disposable chat rooms back in early 2009, has just raised $1.5 million in funding, TechCrunch has...
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We Have A New Uber Boss, And She’s Greek: Aol Buys HuffPo For $315 Million
You know who won the Super Bowl? Arianna Huffington. AllthingsD is reporting that our parent company Aol has bought Huffington Post for $315 million, this afternoon. “Armstrong made the official offer...
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Born This Way
Last night at the dinner table we wrestled with the next generation in the form of our 17 year old. It all began when she asked to borrow my iPad for “a second.” We had been discussing Lady Gaga’s new...
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GrouponLive: An Online Ticketing Deals Marketplace From Groupon, Live Nation
Groupon and Live Nation have a formed a joint venture to develop a new online ticketing deals channel dubbed GrouponLive (not live yet). The site will serve as a local resource for Live Nation events,...
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What Investor Ashton Kutcher Looks For In Tech Companies
What many people do not know about actor and angel investor Ashton Kutcher is that he’s been interested in science and technology from a young age, starting out at the University of Iowa as a...
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Little Startup Makes It To the Big Stage, the Super Bowl
There comes a time in the life of any startup where the founders look at each other, let out a sigh of relief and say, “we’re going to make it.” Startup founders and their first employees work...
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Who Will Win the Race to Build the Web’s Best Real-Name Identity Service?
When Mixel — an iPad-based collage app — launched last November, one of its features quickly caused frustration: Its requirement that users log in with Facebook before they could start creating and...
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The Most Social Super Bowl Breaks Records, Offers Advertisers Lessons
Twitter did not crash and the Super Bowl became the most tweeted sporting event in history, averaging more than 10,000 tweets per second. That wasn’t all that surprising: continued growth of the...
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Analytics From “Most Social Super Bowl” Reveals Chat Wasn’t About Football
Although predictions last week raised expectations about the role that social media would play in reshaping what has historically been one of the most engaging non-holiday events in the U.S. every...
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Why Second Screens Beat the Super Bowl
“If the Super Bowl is such a meaningless game, why are so many people posting updates about how they’re not going to watch it?” said one of my Facebook friends, as the game approached halftime. OK, I...
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