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TabbedOut Nabs $2M for Check-Outs
TabbedOut, the mobile tool that lets you pay bar and restaurant tabs, has landed a $2.05 million Series A round of funding, from New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA). The Austin startup began with a $750k angel round, bringing its total amount of funding to $2.8 million. As part of the funding agreement, NEA General Partner ...
Qualcomm Shuts Down FLO TV, Promotes Augmented Reality Apps with Android Contest
When one door shuts, another opens. It looks like Qualcomm is shutting down its direct-to-consumer television service, FLO TV, according to reports at Engadget. The subscription service came with its own device, which was sold at retailers like Best Buy. But the lack of traction and slew of free and premium alternatives diminished the need ...
Good For Dick. Twitter CEO Evan Williams Hands Over the Reigns.
More executive shake-up news today, as Twitter chief Evan Williams hands over the CEO title to Dick Costolo, the company’s existing COO. Williams isn’t leaving Twitter for yet another project–he just wants to focus on Twitter’s products. It’s an interesting but fitting move for Williams, as Twitter has reached a point of financial promise and ...
Twitter Promoted Accounts Go Live, Along with More Metrics for Money-making
Twitter has officially launched Promoted Accounts, the latest in its updated site features for interacting (and marketing) on the site. Announced last week, Promoted Accounts is an extension of Promoted Tweets, which Twitter put out on the market last April. Twitter Accounts is an algorithm-based recommendation tool, that delivers targeted content to users. Accounts are ...
F5 Networks Bidding War Bubbles Between HP, IBM, Oracle, and Others
Since last year, F5 Networks Inc. was a potential acquisition target for those looking to grow their data center offerings through a large purchase. Interest in F5 Networks is bubbling to the surface again, with reports of a budding bidding war for the company. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Juniper and Cisco are all listed as possible ...
Tony Bates Leaves Cisco to Head Skype as New Chief
In the midst of a series of changes to its service and company, Skype may have a new chief as well. The New York Times cites Tony Bates, an executive from Cisco Systems, as the possible new hire at the VoIP firm. Bates will reportedly be joining the Skype team by the end of October, ...
Google TV is Here (Almost), and All Content is Up for Grabs
There are so many ways to think of the Google TV service–a replacement for premium cable packages, the convergence of TVs into the web era, the on-demand content sharing we’ve always dreamed of. Now that Google TV’s site has launched and its products are on the horizon, we can get a better handle on what ...
EMC Delays CLARiiON and Celerra till Spring, Aims to Beat NetApp
Looks like EMC is delaying the release of its next generation of CLARiiON and Celerra hardware, until sometime next spring, according to a Barrons report. The hold hints at EMC’s integration routes for the two products, possibly combining the two in some capacity. EMC’s delay is a result of increasing pressure being placed on cloud ...
1 Billion Virtual World Users. And They’re Mostly Pre-Teen Girls.
The number of virtual world users has reached a mega-milestone this week: 1 billion registered accounts. That’s a lot of avatars. It also means a huge convergence of virtual interactions and transactions. The numbers come from the latest Kzero report, which looks at a number of metrics around virtual worlds on a quarterly basis. For ...
Microsoft Taking Motorola to Mobile Court: Patent Infringement on Android Phones
Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola, saying the manufacturer used 9 Microsoft patents in its Android-based smartphones. Microsoft’s released statement; REDMOND, Wash. – Oct. 1, 2010 – Microsoft Corp. today filed a patent infringement action against Motorola, Inc. and issued the following statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general ...