Last night, 200 entrepeneurs and investors from around Silicon Valley convened for the Founder Showcase , a quarterly startup event for seed stage companies that’s put together by Adeo Ressi’s TheFunded . The winner of the event, as voted on by the attendees is a new startup called MightyMeeting .
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Bing Is Growing Faster Than Ever, Keeps Gaining Search Market Share
Bing just keeps on gaining market share, and is now growing faster than ever before .
Google GDrive Launches. Just Don’t Call It That.
“This is not GDrive” said Google Docs product manager Vijay Bangaru yesterday while showing me something that sure does look exactly like the fabled GDrive .
E-Commerce Platform Shopify Buys Up StoreSync To Shore Up Mobile Strategy
E-commerce has become a vast ecosystem that pumps billions upon billions of dollars through the web and easily connects consumers what their objects of desire at a single click.
Yahoo BOSS To Survive Microsoft Deal In Some Form; Details Still Hazy
After months of silence, Yahoo’s BOSS team is opening up to frustrated third party developers about the future of the powerful search platform . A few hours ago, Yahoo’s Ashim Chhabra left a post on the BOSS group forum, offering an explanation for why it has taken so long for Yahoo to relay information to developers, and giving them some idea of BOSS’s fate. The good news?
Let The Nexus One Marketing Blitz Begin
As you’ve probably heard by now, this morning Google finally officially announced the first Google Phone: The Nexus One . Plenty of reviewers and geeks are fawning over the new device, but some are proposing that it won’t even make a blip on the radar for your average consumer. In fact, earlier this evening the Wall Street Journal quoted one analyst as saying, “Unless Google gives it a big push with marketing dollars, which they are not, consumers aren’t going to know the phone exists.” I don’t think anything could be further from the truth
SnapTax From TurboTax Will Let You File Your Taxes From Your iPhone (If You Live In CA)
Nobody likes doing their taxes, which is why an upcoming iPhone app from Intuit called SnapTax is so genius. As you can see from the exclusive sneak peek demo video below, the app lets you snap a picture of your W2 form with your iPhone and automatically fills in your tax return. The app uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to translate the images into words and numbers, which it then uploads into a light version of Intuit’s TurboTax software.
TechCrunch, The Google Chrome Extension
I’ve enjoyed using Google’s Chrome browser ever since it was introduced back in September 2008, albeit using other browsers alongside for different purposes. With the launch of Extensions for Chrome , the need to occasionally fire up Firefox or Opera has diminished, and I doubt I’ll be using any browser other than Chrome much in 2010
FMyLife Starts Clamping Down On Its API, Has Some Developers Saying FML
FMyLife’s developer community has a new reason to visit the site this week: to complain about the restrictions the company has recently started to enforce on its API. From now on, FMyLife requires all applications that feature advertising or that have a price tag (e.g
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