Advertisers are already shelling out big money to be a part of iAd, which debuts tomorrow. But the new ad platform faces far too many hurdles to capture the 48 percent of the mobile ad market Steve Jobs is hoping to claim. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
Eucalyptus Systems, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based start-up that is developing cloud computing management platform based on the open source Eucalyptus says that it has raised $20 million in a new round of funding. With this infusion, Eucalyptus has raised a total of $25.5 million. Read More »
Hulu Plus on the iPad is nice – if you get it to work. We noticed some serious latency issues that turned watching TV show episodes through the app a test of our patience. However, once you get it to work, you’re rewarded with great-looking video. Read More »
YouTuber Olga Kay’s past life as a circus performer and juggler has lead the actress to team up with director Andrea Ball and producer Sarah Evershed to make the Kickstarter-funded Olga Kay’s Circus, a lushly-filmed short that claims to be YouTube’s first interactive circus. Read More »
Om told us Kin sales were bad, but having only entered the retail channel a few weeks ago it is still surprising that Microsoft is killing the Kin. The phones are still at Verizon, but Microsoft is killing the European launch scheduled for this fall. Read More »
Today on the Net: Hulu CEO Jason Kilar says the company’s new subscription service is not meant to replace cable services, Warner Music Group taps MTV to sell video ads across its sites and third-party sites and Netflix has a job listing for an Android developer. Read More »
Android 2.2 is just rolling out to the Nexus One, yet talk of the next version is already ramping up. A Russian podcast shared details about Android 3.0, dubbed Gingerbread, and it looks like Google may be moving to take more control over the platform. Read More »
Google has had to change the way its Chinese website operates, after the government there threatened to remove the company’s licence. But one expert in China says the real problem is Google’s competitor, Baidu, and the fact that its ongoing censorship is backed by U.S. investors. Read More »
To keep its stock up, Tesla is going to have to deliver a lot of press releases over the next two years to distract Wall Street from pondering over the fact that there will be very little revenues. Here’s 10 strategies to watch outta Tesla: Read More »
The folks at workingProgram have just released the Pro version of time tracking tool Qlockwork, and to celebrate have kindly offered us three licenses of the app to give away. Qlockwork is an Outlook plug-in that automatically tracks the time you spend working on your PC. Read More »
With today’s news that Move Networks has laid off all its employees and is looking for a buyer, here’s a roundup of the rise and fall of the once high-flying startup, as it transitioned from making network TV watchable to selling IPTV technology to ISPs. Read More »
Woot, the O.G. daily deals site, has been bought by Amazon. In an irreverent (as always) announcement post, Woot CEO Matt Rutledge said, “[W]e plan to continue to run Woot the way we have always run Woot – with a wall of ideas and a dartboard.” Read More »
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