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Intel's McAfee Acquires Sentrigo To Boost Database Security Offerings
Mar 23, 12:16PM
Intel-owned McAfee is announcing an acquisition this morning—database security company Sentrigo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sentrigo, which has raised $9.5 million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital, Stata Venture Partners and Juniper Networks,, provides host-based software that protects enterprise databases by monitoring all activity in the database in real-time, providing alerts, audit trail, virtual patching and automatic intrusion prevention capabilities. Sentrigo's solution, called Hedgehog, uses a very small footprint non-intrusive agent that has complete visibility into all database activity, whether it is originated by outsiders or privileged insiders, and does so without impacting database performance. 
StatCounter: Firefox 4 Has Already Eclipsed Internet Explorer 9
Mar 23, 11:50AM
Mozilla has just released Firefox 4, and in less than a day clocked more than twice the downloads Microsoft boasted about after the release of Internet Explorer 9. Now website analytics company StatCounter says Mozilla's new browser has already taken 1.95 percent of the worldwide Internet browser market. In contrast, StatCounter adds, Internet Explorer 9 has taken only 0.87 percent of the worldwide browser market a week after its debut. 
HealthTap Raises $2.35 Million To Help People Manage Their Health
Mar 23, 10:34AM
HealthTap this morning announced that it has raised $2.35 million in a convertible note seed financing round led by Mohr Davidow Ventures. The VC firm was joined by a number of notable angel investors, including Esther Dyson, Stanford professor and former CEO of Veritas Software Mark Leslie and Aaron Patzer, founder and former CEO of Mint.com, among others. 
Three Years After Launch, Men's Custom Clothier J. Hilburn Discovers E-Commerce
Mar 23, 10:15AM
Can you see the difference between these two shirts? One is an off-the-shelf Zegna men's dress shirt that sells at Neiman Marcus for $395. The other is a custom-fitted shirt from men's clothier startup J. Hilburn made from exactly the same material, but it only costs $99. And it's made to measure. J. Hilburn, which is based in Dallas, Texas, cuts out the retailer and its mark-up. The startup is a direct-to-consumer manufacturer, just like Dell Computer, but for fancy men's dress shirts. It was founded in 2007 and started selling shirts a year later. By last year, the company brought in $8 million in revenues, up from $3.25 million in 2009, says CEO Hil Davis, a former Wall Street retail analyst. He projects the company to make $20 million in revenues this year. What's incredible is that until today, the company didn't sell its clothes online.
Motorola Acquires IPTV Software Company Dreampark
Mar 23, 9:45AM
Motorola Mobility has acquired Dreampark, a Swedish IPTV software provider. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Motorola says it expects the acquisition to close in the second quarter. Dreampark is the company behind Dreamgallery, a software suite for operators aiming at providing services over TV networks.
In The Cards: Why Amazon *Has* To Make An Android Device Now
Mar 23, 8:12AM
When I first heard that Amazon was going to be making an app store for Android (we broke the news in September of last year), I laughed. Just what Android needs, another app store, I thought. Further, I didn't see what Amazon could bring to the table with such a store that Google themselves couldn't. That was stupid. I was wrong. Now that Amazon's Android Appstore is out there in the wild, and I've had a chance to play with it, I see the brilliance of the maneuver. In many ways, Amazon just came out of nowhere and beat Google at their own game — on their own devices. At the same time, some of the processes involved in Amazon's Appstore are laughable. And they point to a very obvious fact: Amazon needs to build their own Android devices. Pronto.
Google Plays To Its Strengths, Succeeds Brilliantly, With Lady Gaga Interview
Mar 23, 7:55AM
As the battle for Silicon Valley engineering talent intensifies, it seems as if hot tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter have launched some sort of ridiculous competition as to who could can score the biggest Hollywood talent for an onsite appearance, in order to wow current and future employees. Between Ashton Kutcher and Chamillionaire at Y Combinator launches and conferences, Silicon Valley isn't lacking in star sitings. But if we're keeping a tally, the most recent celebrity visits making waves were Snoop Dog at Twitter and Katy Perry at Facebook, both of which seemed like a stretch when considering either company's goals.
Digital Textbook Startup Inkling Nabs 'Multi-Million Dollar' Investment From McGraw-Hill And Pearson
Mar 23, 6:56AM
Inkling, a startup that develops an innovative digital textbook platform, has scored a 'multi-million dollar investment from educational content giants McGraw-Hill and Pearson. Current investors Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Kapor Capital, and Sherpalo Ventures also participated in the financing. The company, which previously raised an undisclosed Series A round of funding in August 2010, declined to reveal the exact amount of funding raised in this round. Inkling's technology delivers interactive textbooks that include the ability to collaborate, add multimedia and communicate within content. The startup adds another layer to online textbooks by adding 3-D objects, video, quizzes, and even social interaction within the content. Inkling's sync technology lets students collaborate in real time by sharing their notes and highlights with one another. And students can see comments from their friends and professors right alongside their own notes.
43 Promising Startups Present At Y Combinator's Biggest Demo Day Yet
Mar 23, 4:17AM
Twice a year, Y Combinator holds special events called Demo Day, when its most recent batch of startups present to a packed room full of top investors. It's the grand finale of the program, where entrepreneurs have a few minutes to show off what they've built in the hopes of raising a seed round to help their companies stay afloat for at least a few more months (and hopefully much longer). Of course, Demo Day is a bit different from what it was a year or two ago. The spectre of a $0 bank account is further off, as Y Combinator companies are now being offered $150,000 in convertible debt by Start Fund, the fund created by Yuri Milner and Ron Conway's SV Angel. And there are now more companies than ever — 43 companies presented during Demo Day this afternoon, which means they're each given a bit less time.
On Firefox 4 Day, Chrome 11 Hits Beta With The Ability To Talk To Your Computer!
Mar 23, 3:20AM
As you're aware by now, earlier today Mozilla officially unveiled Firefox 4 to the world. At first glance, it's a great update with massive speed improvements. And that's good, because that's exactly what they need to combat the fast-rising Chrome browser from Google. But Google isn't sitting still either. This afternoon, Google pushed Chrome 11 into beta. On the surface, users might see this as little more than the version which brings the new Chrome icon. But underneath, there are a couple awesome new things going on as well.
Netflix Shares Soar, Site Goes Down
Mar 23, 2:41AM
It's not a great day for the Internet, folks. Web services seem to be dropping like flies. For several hours today, WordPress.com's back-end was nowhere to be found, causing several TechCrunch writers to consider writing on legal pads and posting on Craigslist. Some even considered posting on HuffPo. Don't worry, they've been fired. On top of this, and much to the chagrin of the video-on-demand watching public, Netflix went down for what seemed like a century. I subscribe to Netflix Instant, and as you can see from the message above, I was not allowed to watch my "programs" this evening when I wanted to. Not cool, Netflix. Not cool.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse Warns Of The Danger Of Duopoly In Cell Phone Land
Mar 23, 2:29AM
AT&T's $39 billion bid for T-Mobile this weekend wasn't just a surprise to the general public. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was also "shocked" to find out about it. "That one was not on the radar screen," he tells CNBC's Jim Cramer in an interview today (transcript). He didn't think it would be possible because of antitrust issues, and he is definitely playing up those issues now. Hesse doesn't like the deal one bit because it will make Sprint a distant third after AT&T and Verizon in the U.S. mobile market. (A combined AT&T-T-Mobile will have more than 100 million subscribers, as does Verizon already, while Sprint is half that size with 50 million). He's already threatening to complain to Congress, and he's practicing his arguments on TV. He warns Cramer of a duopoly situation:
Judge Rejects Google Books Settlement: Make It Opt-In
Mar 23, 2:10AM
Federal Judge Denny Chin ruled against the proposed settlement between Google and written content creators, saying that the proposed $125 million agreement (in discussion since 2009) is over-broad, and takes too many liberties on the part of orphan works and other potentially disputable items. The agreement would have put millions of books, in and out of print, online, but Chin suggested that the nature of the agreement (opt-out rather than opt-in) was too permissive of Google's "scan first, get permission later" approach, and that it essentially rewarded them for illegal behavior. Seems to me that rewarding illegal behavior is pretty common these days, but we'll assume that Chin meant well here. His fear of overstepping his judicial bounds is to be commended, but is he setting back the industry as well?
Some Quick Unpaywalled Thoughts On Writing Behind A Paywall
Mar 23, 1:45AM
Unless you've been living behind a paywall for the past few weeks, you'll know that there are big changes afoot at the online edition of the New York Times. Starting March 28th, American visitors to NYTimes.com will only be able to access 20 stories a month, unless they're willing to plunk down between $15-$35 every four weeks for unlimited access. Gallons of digital ink, mixed with no small number of tears, have been spilled over the news: whether it will result in greater or lesser profits for the Times, whether other publications are likely to follow suit, and whether any of that matters when paywalls are so easy to circumvent. I, on the other hand, have found it hard to care. Another grand publishing experiment: it'll work, it won't work - it's really too early tell. And then came an email from the Times. Suddenly I cared.
MetaLab Launches Flow, A Beautiful Tool For Task Management
Mar 23, 1:26AM
You may not be familiar with MetaLab, but you've definitely come across their work: they designed sites for Qik, Sugar, Texts From Last Night, and the ubiquitous Tumblr theme 'Fluid', among other things. And today they're launching a new app of their own: Flow a new simple tool for managing and delegating tasks. The first thing you'll notice is that the app is beautiful (and I don't throw that word around lightly). This isn't a huge surprise given MetaLab's background, but the web app looks and feels a lot like something you'd expect from a polished native iPad application (in addition to the web app, there's also a native iPhone app available right here). 
Google Joins The Patent Madness With "Methods For Enticing Users To Access A Web Site"
Mar 23, 1:25AM
I guess the USPTO felt they were leaving Google out of the game, what with Apple suing over the phrase "App Store," Microsoft suing for showing the status of a download, and Paul Allen suing for everything else. So they went ahead and granted Google's request to patent the Google Doodle. Yes, that's right: among other things, they are claiming the method of creating a special logo and then providing special results if you click that logo. In their defense, the patent was filed for in 2001. Of course, that's not much of a defense.
Adobe Beats The Street; Revenue Up 20 Percent To $1.03 Billion
Mar 23, 12:56AM
Adobe is reporting another record quarter today. The company announced the results for the first quarter of fiscal 2011, reporting record revenue of $1.03 billion, which an increase of 20 percent from the same quarter in 2010. Adobe just beat analyst estimates of $0.57 per share; posting non-GAAP diluted earnings per share at $0.58. Adobe's non-GAAP operating income was $400.1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2011, compared to $289.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2010 and $384.0 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. Non-GAAP net income was $298.1 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2011, compared to $211.7 million from same quarter in the previous year and $285.7 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. 
eBay VP Of Ops Mazen Rawashdeh Moves To Twitter As VP Of Ops
Mar 22, 8:16PM
Twitter has confirmed that seven year eBay veteran Mazen Rawashdeh will be replacing Nick Heyman as VP of Operations at the 400 person strong company. In true Twitter fashion, the move was announced in a tweet by Twitter VP of Engineering Michael Abbott. At Ebay, Rawashdeh was responsible for the Ebay Marketplaces product and prior to that was Senior Director of Infrastructure and Engineering responsible for servers and data center operations. Prior to eBay Rawashdesh had held positions at Oracle, OPSWARE, and surprisingly enough the Sacremento Bee newspaper.
Biz Stone On Conan: Twitter, No Longer The 'Seinfeld' Of The Internet
Mar 22, 7:32PM
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone visited the CONAN show last night to celebrate the service's much balyhooed fifth birthday. Conan O'Brien, who found great success on Twitter himself as @conanobrien, began the conversation by referring to the site's early days, reminding Stone that the now-lauded company was once severely criticized about its apparent uselessness. Stone replied, "Everybody said 'Twitter's useless.' To which my co-founder Evan Williams said, 'Well so's Ice Cream, you want us to ban Ice Cream and all joy?' We said, 'Screw that. We'll just keep working on it.'"
Beautiful Mac Mail Client Sparrow Really Sings With Full IMAP, Priority Inbox, And Multi-Touch
Mar 22, 6:57PM
When Sparrow first launched in October of last year, I raved about its design and simplicity, but noted a few downsides. One was that it was Gmail-only. And even though it was Gmail-only, it lacked some of Gmail's power features, such asPriority Inbox. With version 1.1, both of those issues have been addressed. And a whole slew of new features more has been added. First and foremost, Sparrow now has general IMAP support. This means that on top of Gmail, you can use the client for all of your email. This means Yahoo, AOL, Mobile Me, anything. It even supports custom IMAP from services like Rackspace, Fastmail, Zimbra and others.
Firefox 4 Is Certainly Zippy, But Is That Enough To Switch Back From Chrome?
Mar 22, 6:33PM
If you've already downloaded the new Firefox 4 today, the first you probably noticed is how much zippier it is. I pretty much had stopped using Firefox altogether because of the creekiness of its previous versions compared to Chrome, Safari, and IE9. But the new Firefox 4, which Mozilla claims is 6 times as fast as before, puts it back in the same pack at least as the rest. It's been downloaded nearly 2 million times as of this writing (check the counter for more up-to-the-second numbers). I'm sure there are plenty of benchmark tests that show one browser is faster than the other, and vice versa, but my initial reactions after playing around with Firefox 4 today and comparing it side by side with Chrome is that it is just as fast if not faster. It depends on which website I visit. TechCrunch, for instance, loads a second or two faster by my stopwatch. Without the stopwatch, I can't tell the difference. And that's a good thing for Firefox, because speed is my No. 1 requirement for a Web browser. Nothing else is nearly as important. Sluggishness pushes users away. So that's fixed.
Keen On… Yes, Google Is a Monopolist (And Why We Should Worry) [TCTV]
Mar 22, 6:00PM
Once the darling of the left, Google is rapidly losing the affection of American progressives. Rather than a force for the good, Google's enormous power and influence, particularly over search, is making more and more people nervous about its real intent. Most of all, it is Google's lack of transparency – its self-evident secrecy rather than its openness - that is creeping many people (including myself) out. Siva Vaidhyanathan is one of America's most influential new media scholars and the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs and The Anarchist in the Library. In his important new book, The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), Vaidhyanathan takes on the power of Google and reveals why we should be worried about the company's monopolization of search and its imperial control of the web. 
Open PaaS DotCloud Raises $10M From Benchmark And Trinity, Jerry Yang Joins Board
Mar 22, 3:59PM
Second generation platform as a service DotCloud is announcing its $10 million dollar Series A today, after a recent rockstar-filled seed round which included Ron Conway and Chris Sacca. Investors in the most recent round include Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures. Along with the financing, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang and Apple engineering manager Marc Varstaen will be joining the DotCloud board of directors.
ECM Cloud Connect Offers A Bridge Between On-Premise Content And The Box.net Cloud
Mar 22, 3:58PM
Fresh off a $48 million funding round, cloud storage and collaboration startup Box.net is launching a new product today that should further its presence in the enterprise space. The company is debuting ECM Cloud Connect, which acts as a bridge between on-premise enterprise content management systems and Box.net's cloud platforms. Box.net CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie tells us that while there are traditional software and systems to manage on-premise data within organizations, Box wants to help introduce cloud version of of this with ECM Cloud Connect. Here's how it works. Box is partnering with EntropySoft to offer businesses a peice of software will sit behind firewall and will connect to both on-premise solutions and Box, acting as a bridge between the two platforms. 
Angel Trivia Daily Tests Your Knowledge Of Startup Investing
Mar 22, 3:44PM
Don't know your pre-money from your post-money or carried interest from convertibles? Now there's a 99-cent iPhone app for startup founders to bone up on investing terms and concepts they might encounter when they first try to raise money.. It is called Angel Trivia Daily, and it tests your angel investing knowledge witha new question every day. Created by two Seattle entrepreneurs, Joe Wallin and Bill Carleton, it's a fun way to learn the minutia of angel investing. 
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