VSS Monitoring, a network traffic monitoring company, has taken $20 million in funding from Battery Ventures. The funding was the first for the company which was founded in 2003 and the funding will be used for R&D and company expansion. Its investors call it a unicorn. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
The rising popularity of music videos online has made discovering classic viral videos tougher than it used to be. Which means that when you see something called Indian Pole Gymnastics climbing the viral video charts, you know you’re in for something special. Read More »
Inkling, a startup that launched last week and also closed a Series A round of funding, says that the iPad is the future of the textbook. The company’s software turns the iPad into an interactive textbook with video and even 3-D images that can be rotated. Read More »
Facebook is continuing to grow, but not all of that growth is due to features and functions of the web-based social networking service. The trend towards Facebook-enabled hardware shows no sign of stopping: cameras, picture frames, televisions and more are bringing Facebook everywhere for consumers. Read More »
It’s been a while since Apple’s rumor mill has held the attention of the buying public with anything like the hype that led up to the release of the iPad and iPhone 4, but the rumored iTV is on track to come pretty close. Read More »
Wondering how much good those tens of billions of dollars in stimulus package funding have done for clean power innovation, the smart grid, advanced green vehicles and energy efficiency? Yep, us too, given the date to allocate all this money is looming on Sept. 30, 2010. Read More »
TringMe, a VoIP startup, has introduced a new VoIP application for BlackBerry OS (works with BlackBerry OS versions 4.2 to 5.0) that can make calls over Wi-Fi. It allows for single-click, worldwide conference calling and when there is no Wi-Fi, it uses the cellular network. Read More »
Here’s all the greentech news, blogs and trend articles we’re reading this afternoon! Read More »
The cloud industry is as hot as the month of August. New financings to a bidding war for a storage company, the insiders are busy as beavers. In addition, Hadoop has been gaining more momentum. Plus a thoughtful article about the cost of cloud and co-locations. Read More »
U.S. Pay TV subscriptions have declined for the first time in history in the second quarter. Comcast & other cableco’s lost a total of 711,000 subscribers last quarter, which represents the biggest quarterly loss ever for cable TV. Telcos and sattellite TV providers were better off. Read More »
If Apple isn’t enough of a religion for you, there are plenty of iPad apps out there to cover most other religions to which you may subscribe. The iPad’s versatility — coupled with developer ingenuity — means there are many different ways to engage. Read More »
I’ve been an enthusiastic Evernote user for quite a while, but until recently I didn’t think of it in terms of a collaboration tool. However, the web-based notebook tool’s evolution has made it far more useful as a base for collaboration than anyone might expect. Read More »
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