Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Start-up Rap Genius
Here’s an investment out of left field, but not really. Andreessen Horowitz is dropping $15 million into startup Rap Genius. It’s not just about rap, though. Think of it as “crowdsourced explanations of lyrics and historical texts.” Here’s what the firm had to say by way of Rap Genius’ blog: I’m delighted to announce that Andreessen Horowitz [...]
Read MoreBeCouply Wins Ford SYNC AppLink Developer Challenge at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
During TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this past week, Ford offered the developer community an opportunity to create new mobile apps that will be compatible with the voice-activated Ford SYNC system in what was called SYNC AppLink Developer Challenge. Becky Cruze and Pius Uzamere, NewME Accelerator alums and founder of the dating start-up BeCouply, won the challenge for creating app Dates.fm, a location-based [...]
Read MoreAiming to Grow Its Business User Base, HootSuite Acquires Seesmic
HootSuite, the company behind the business-oriented social media management service, just announced that it has acquired Seesmic, the company perhaps better known for its colorful French founder, Loïc Le Meur, than for its often-changing stable of social media tools. Financial terms aren’t being disclosed, but the deal appears to be more about Seesmic’s user base [...]
Read MoreApple Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company Ever
After charting an all-time high of $647.21 and bringing Apple’s market capitalization beyond $600 billion last week, shares in the company rose higher still on Monday, carrying it past another milestone. Apple today became the most valuable public company of all time. Apple’s stock price rose more than $16 this morning, to a new high of $664.74 [...]
Read MoreComcast’s Internet Essentials Program Providing Internet to 100,000 Low-Income Families
Comcast’s Internet Essential Program, created through its deal with NBC-Universal to provide low-cost internet to low-income families seems to be working. In a press release today, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, says it now serves 100,000 families, 7,000 from Chicago alone, bringing 400,000 individuals online. Since its launch Comcast has: Doubled broadband speeds to up to 3 Mbps downstream [...]
Read MoreGoogle Makes It Harder to Download Illegal Content, Adjusts Search Results
Googling for illegal access to movies or music? Starting today, those links will begin to slip down the results list. The search giant has revamped its algorithm to take into account complaints about copyright infringement. In a blog post on Friday, Google explained that, among the 200 signals it uses to rank pages, the search engine will [...]
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