VC Transparency Is The New Black
When Instagram was bought by Facebook earlier this spring for $1 billion, one question lingering on everyone’s minds was how much VC firm Andreessen Horowitz made on the deal. The firm had made an early investment in the photo sharing startup but then bet against it after Instagram’s pivot by later by supporting a rival. A few days after [...]
Read MoreBest Buy Giving Away $100,000 For The Next Big Tech Idea With College Innovator Fund
Big-box retailer doesn’t just want to be known as the place where you get the cheapest gear — lately it’s been highlighting technology innovation and innovators in its ads and messaging. To that end, the company is launching a contest aimed at finding the next big thing, and it’s asking college kids to compete for [...]
Read MoreApple Releases Standalone Podcasts App Ahead Of iOS 6
It wasn’t long after the iOS 6 developer beta first started hitting devices that people started noticing something peculiar about its iTunes app — the iTunes U, Audiobooks, and Podcast sections had disappeared. That prompted quite a bit of speculation that each of those content types would get their own standalone app when the update launched, and now [...]
Read MoreSongkick’s Tourbox Makes It Easier For Musicians To Get Their Concert Dates Across The Web
I’m not a professional musician, but apparently it’s a headache for artists to publicize their tourdates on the myriad number of websites and apps that cater to music lovers. Not only is there Facebook and Twitter, but there’s YouTube, Spotify, Soundcloud and Hype Machine. Enter Songkick, a concert promotion startup that’s backed by Sequoia Capital and [...]
Read MorePost Arab Spring, African Startups Should Be Next in Line for Attention
In Accra, the capital of Ghana, it’s not about who you know, what you know, which member’s club you belong to or even which school you used to go to. It’s all about which church you belong to. Ghana is nearly 70% Christian and on Sundays anybody who is anybody heads off to church, not [...]
Read MoreBranchOut Launches Tool For Recruiters To Source Job Candidates On Facebook
BranchOut, a professional social network for Facebook, is announcing the launch of RecruiterConnect, a tool for recruiters and hiring managers to source job candidates on Facebook and build private talent networks. BranchOut says that RecruiterConnect is also the first enterprise software product available on the Facebook platform. Launched in July 2010, BranchOut is sort of like [...]
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