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Facebook has just acquired mobile commerce startup Karma, which makes apps for gifting friends and family. The terms of the deal are undisclosed but 16 employees of the startup will be joining Facebook. The purchase will help Facebook build up monetizatio...
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on 19 May 2012 at 11:50 AM by mojowiz
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SpaceX, the private space exploration company founded by PalPal and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk, is ready to boldly go where no private company has legitimately attempted to go before:...
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on 19 May 2012 at 11:20 AM by mojowiz
Microsoft, just like Apple, usually runs a major back-to-school promotion every summer that is meant to give students (and their parents) some extra incentives to buy a new computer. The company’s just-announced back-to-school deal for the U.S. and Cana...
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on 19 May 2012 at 11:00 AM by mojowiz
Is The Avengers worth your money? Do the disc-blasting Nerf guns leave a welt? How do you pull a Pebble and rein in $3 million on Kickstarter?
In this week’s TC/Gadgets webcast, we answer all this and more. John and Matt argue over the value in one of...
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on 19 May 2012 at 10:50 AM by mojowiz
The tale of Docracy’s year-long journey is a fun one. When Matt Hall and his partner John Watkinson first went into the Hackathon last year, the only goal was to get a prototype working for an idea they had, a GitHub for legal documents. Sure, a win w...
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on 19 May 2012 at 10:40 AM by mojowiz
The President’s technology gurus, US CTO Todd Park and CIO Steven VanRoekel, will be looking for savvy innovators to work with at next week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York (tickets here). Park and VanRoekel will be announcing some new tech...
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on 19 May 2012 at 10:30 AM by mojowiz
China’s Internet juggernaut Tencent|announced today that it would undergo a restructuring of its business units into six groups.|Ren Yuxin was also named as the new chief operating officer and will head |up the media and social-networking groups.
The si...
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on 19 May 2012 at 10:20 AM by mojowiz
Editor’s note: Scott Brave is the CTO and co-founder, Baynote.
We’ve all watched from the sidelines as companies have come out in a burst of glory, and then, two years later, spent their venture capital, lost their user base, and failed to monetize. T...
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on 19 May 2012 at 10:00 AM by mojowiz
Facebook’s IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some interesting conclus...
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on 19 May 2012 at 9:50 AM by mojowiz
If only Facebook IPO day were a little less of a snoozefest than it is now. If only it had Zuckerberg impaling investors while riding a bull rampaging through a city. Or an elevator to space. Or Zuckerberg bouncing Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar off a...
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on 19 May 2012 at 9:40 AM by mojowiz
Just after the markets closed on its first day of public trading, Facebook amended its S-1 with a complete prospectus detailing how much stock each underwriter got to sell. Morgan Stanley, the lead-left bank, received 162.1 million shares ($6.15 billion w...
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on 19 May 2012 at 9:30 AM by mojowiz
GameStop is hurting. Same store sales fell 5%-11% and revenue was down 17% to $2 billion. Profit fell to $72.5 million. Arguably, those are still huge numbers and presumably a new console refresh should push the company out of the doldrums. But what the c...
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on 19 May 2012 at 9:10 AM by mojowiz
