Facebook shares on SecondMarket spiked briefly in March to $34 – an $85 billion valuation. But they settled down to around $31.50 after that and have mostly stayed around that level since then. But something caused the shares to surge past that old record to a solid $35 per share in this week’s auction. Our guess is that newly public [...]
The latest Disrupt has wrapped, but given the volume of news it created and the rate at which posts were pushing each other off the front page, you could be forgiven for missing a few items or videos here and there. Don’t worry, though: we’ve got the highlights of the show collected right here. Actually, that’s not entirely true. We [...]
For as long as I can remember, there has been one app that has constantly held the top paid app spot in Apple’s App Store: Angry Birds. Sure, other apps surge to the top briefly. But Angry Birds always comes flying right back. But a new app appears to be bucking that trend. Today is day 3 of The Heist‘s [...]
Munch On Me is a daily deals site for food. But wait, before you click away to a slideshow about hot coders, Munch On Me (Y Combinator Summer class of 2011) has got some features that might just reroute you from relying on the big G for your munchies back to its sweet sweet embrace. First of all, Munch On Me [...]
Most options for wood used in decks, outdoor furniture and siding are rarely entirely earth friendly, since they are often treated with heavy metals or toxic chemicals, or logged from unsustainable forests. One company is innovating in the space by altering the chemistry of the wood itself to make it weather and decay resistant. After several years of research and [...]
This 6-inch screen displays black and white e-ink text and images at 800×600 pixels and can roll around a tube the circumference of a dime. If this isn’t the future of print, I don’t know what is. Designed and manufactured by Polymer Vision, the screen can be rolled and unrolled 25,000 times. The question, obviously, is why would you need [...]
When it comes to building a web startup, the devil’s often in the details. And keeping track of those details — be it how far users get in your signup process, or how often they’re clicking a certain button — can be a real pain. Mixpanel is a startup that’s looking to solve that problem by giving sites an easy-to-integrate analytics [...]
Hi Charlie. Charlie Cheever from Quora. Hey . Look excited, your supposed to smile you’ve got a vast audience out there. Okay. Do you have a lot to smile about, Charlie? Yeah, I think so. Well you’re the founder and the CEO. No, I’m not the CEO. You ‘re just the founder. Adam D’Angelo, the other founder is CEO. So [...]
With WWDC quickly approaching, the rumor mills are heating up with what we should expect at Apple’s annual conference known for big announcements. We’ve learned a little bit more that speaks to what to expect — including a couple of big, widely-requested things. First of all, a lot of sites seem to be working themselves into a tizzy about the [...]
This week was so jam-packed full of news that I can’t wait to have Memorial Day off to recover. Google Wallet was introduced and it could change the way we pay for goods, Microsoft unwrapped the details of Windows Phone Mango and Verizon had a big week with the release of four high-quality smartphones on a single day. Exhale and [...]
