Texting App Textfree Has Handled Over A Billion Messages
Textfree, Pinger’s core app, lets users send and receive unlimited texts for a year for the $5.99 download price. The company also offers an ad-supported free version that limits users to 15 texts per day.
Posted: February 17th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Veoh, one of several well-funded startups that have tried and failed to cash in on the Web video boom, is finally calling it quits. The company let go of the remainder of its workforce yesterday, and sources say it plans on filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in the near future.
Posted: February 11th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Lessons From Google’s Own Paid Search Campaigns: Forget The “Rules”
It might be that Google simply isn’t trying to optimize the performance of their ads on their own website (since they don’t change their own bottom line by charging themselves for clicks). But it seems harder for me to believe that Google isn’t trying to optimize the ads they place on Yahoo and Bing. Even if money isn’t an issue, certainly setting a good example and maintaining the appearance of competence are.So, I decided to examine Google ads on Yahoo and Bing further to see what lessons we can learn from Google about writing good ad creatives:
Posted: February 10th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Twilio’s Telephony API Now Lets Applications Send And Receive SMS Messages
Back in November 2008, we covered the launch of Twilio, a startup that’s akin to an Amazon Web Services for telephony apps. After signing up for a phone number, Twilio lets you integrate phone services into your application using intuitive tags like Dial when you want your app to place a call. Today, the company is expanding to include support for the world’s most popular data channel: SMS messaging.
Posted: February 10th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Grown Ups Obsess Over Facebook While Teens Are Sick of Blogging And Twitter
More good news for Facebook: Among adults, Facebook is currently the most commonly used online social network, according to a new study.Among the aged 30 and over crowd, 73% have a profile on Facebook. As for 18-29 year olds, 71% of them have Facebook profiles, too.
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Sun CEO’s Lame Twitter Haiku Is Precisely Why He Had To Sell To Oracle
“Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Op-Ed Contributor - Microsoft’s Creative Destruction - NYTimes.com
AS they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’s popular e-book business. But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future, whether it’s tablet computers like the iPad, e-books like Amazon’s Kindle, smartphones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter.
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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TheFunded Ranks The Most Loved VCs Of 2009
Some VCs are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by their ratings in 2009. What makes this ranking particularly useful to entrepreneurs is that it is ratings by other CEOs, often CEOs who have had direct dealings with the VCs they are rating.
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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