New Media Minute: Four Digital Media Startups to Watch
Want to know which digital media startups to keep your eye on? The New Media Minute says to watch for innovation from Rich Relevance, Yinzcam, Klout and Tynt. For all the details, check out…
Tablet Size and Climate Change
No, I’m not talking that kind of climate change. What I am going to talk about is the impact of consumer preferences with respect to tablet size, based on where you live. The debate…
Startup Sauna Goes to Finland
We have been travelling around the Nordics and Baltics to find the best startups to participate in our seed accelerator program called Startup Sauna. In the past year when we have run the program…
Yahoo Wants Its Piece of the Hadoop Pie
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo is considering spinning off its Hadoop engineering division into a new company in an effort to commercialize the open source, Big Data-crunching software framework. The Journal article,…
RIM Acquires Tungle to Round Out their Corporate Social Standing
By Kyt Dotson
Research In Motion, the developer of the Blackberry, has acquired Tungle in a move today that fits well with the business-centric mobile company’s past cultural decisions. Tungle.me, which produces social-calendar software, provides a powerful…
yaM Labs Tweaks Cloud-based Meeting Collaboration Tool
yaM Labs and its cloud-based yaM meeting collaboration tool are relatively new players in the online collaboration industry, but the company is already stirring some buzz with its product currently in beta. The company…
Acme Packet Beats Views, Stock At All Time High
Acme Packet (ticker symbol APKT) is a little known Massachusetts based manufacturer of session border controllers (SBC’s) which enable VoIP and videoconferencing via the Internet, a leader in session delivery network solutions, enabling the…
Dog Wars vs Angry Birds. Sounds Like a Great New Android Game.
After being up at the Android Market for some time, Android decided to finally drop Dog Wars following complaints from the Humane Society, Michael Vick and Alicia Silverstone. I know there are laws protecting…
Delicious Quietly Acquired by YouTube Founders
Looks like Delicious has been rescued after all. The social bookmarking service has been acquired by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, incorporating it into their new web-based company, AVOS. The deal was…
ARM Holdings Rides Mobile Wave, Beats Expectations
ARM Holdings (ticker symbol ARMH) is a little known British chip architecture firm which has been riding the mobile wave for nearly two years. The architecture of ARM is found in almost every mobile…