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Bazillion Dollar Club Is Looking For New Home After SyFy Cancellation
Sep 30, 7:23PM
There is hope for those saddened to hear Dave McClure’s new reality show Bazillion Dollar Club was yanked just one week after airing its first episode on SyFy. We hear Zero Point Zero, the production company behind the show, is looking for a new home. SyFy made the decision to pull the new Silicon Valley reality show last week after airing the pilot episode. “It just didn’t… Read More
Serial Entrepreneur B.V. Jagadeesh Talks Bootstrapping And Mentoring
Sep 30, 7:00PM
In this podcast, B.V. Jagadeesh, a Silicon Valley veteran who co-founded and led iconic companies such as Exodus Communications, talks with Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha about bootstrapping Exodus in its early days. Read More
Yahoo Donates Servers To Universities With Diverse Student Populations, Hopes To Grow The Pipeline
Sep 30, 6:57PM
Yahoo recently donated 200 servers to Howard University, a historically black university, and The University of Texas at El Paso, where the majority of the students are Mexican-American. This is the first time Yahoo has donated servers to The University of Texas at El Paso, and the second time Yahoo has donated servers to Howard — the first time was in 2013, when it donated 125 servers… Read More
Twitter Will Reportedly Name Jack Dorsey As CEO, Bringing Back The Founder's Instincts
Sep 30, 6:54PM
The decisive leadership of a founder could be what’s necessary to bring Twitter’s value to the masses. And apparently that’s what it’s going to get, as Re/Code reports Twitter has made the decision to bring its co-founder and Square chief Jack Dorsey back as CEO. He’d been serving as Twitter’s interim CEO for four months since Dick Costolo chose to step… Read More
OS X El Capitan Review: Apple Brings Welcome Snow To Yosemite
Sep 30, 6:34PM
Mac users fondly remember OS X Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion. These two releases were the epitome of Apple’s best work on OS X. Two rock solid iterations that were all about refinements, performance updates and stability. While OS X El Capitan isn’t a true ‘Snow’ release, this year’s OS X follows the same tradition in many ways — and it’s a great thing. Read More
Google Brings HTTPS Support To Blogspot
Sep 30, 6:21PM
Over the last few years, Google brought support for encrypted HTTPS connections to almost all of its products, including search, Gmail and Google Drive. It’s now even using HTTPS support as a ranking signal in its search results. Starting today, the company is also bringing HTTPS support to its Blogspot blogging platform. Read More
Twitter Stock Up 4% On Report That Jack Dorsey Will Become Permanent CEO
Sep 30, 6:17PM
Today, Re/code reported that Jack Dorsey would be installed as permanent CEO after many months of speculation. Investors and those close to the company have been calling for Dorsey to take the post, but the board has been going through a process. One that may end as early as tomorrow, Recode’s sources told them. This means that Dorsey will simultaneously run Twitter and Square. The board… Read More
Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.30.15
Sep 30, 6:12PM
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Peter Rojas, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 11amPT/2pmET. Our LIVE chat is at chat.center/gillmorgang Read More
With The Success Of Wishbone App, Venture Studio Science Makes A Big Mobile Push
Sep 30, 6:06PM
With the runaway success of its mobile app Wishbone, the Los Angeles-based venture studio, Science Inc. is making a hard push into mobile content to build what it believes will be the next big media company. Wishbone is the first mobile app to come from what is now Science Inc.’s fourth big, in-house business unit. The investment group and conglomerate, which made a name for itself… Read More
Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 12: Hands On With Comcast's YouTube Wannabe, Watchable)
Sep 30, 5:58PM
As an increasing number of cable and satellite TV subscribers are cutting the cord – or never signing up for television in the first place – the traditional pay TV industry is scrambling to figure out how to compete in this new age of over-the-top services, on-demand streaming, and viewing that takes place on a variety of platforms beyond the living room’s big screen.… Read More
Google Acquires Jibe Mobile To Help Adopt New Standard For Carrier Messaging
Sep 30, 5:46PM
Today, Google announced that it will be adopting a new standard for carrier messaging called Rich Communications Services (RCS), thus eventually moving on from SMS. The company also announced the acquisition of Jibe Mobile to help bring RCS to its Android products. Here’s what Mike Dodd, Android RCS Software Engineer and Minister of Messaging had to say (and how cool is his title?):… Read More
OS X El Capitan Now Available To Download
Sep 30, 5:45PM
Apple has just released OS X 10.11 El Capitan. The update is now rolling out to eligible Mac devices. It’s available in the Mac App Store as a free download. If you don’t see the update right away, don’t panic as it could take a few minutes due to App Store propagation. Apple might as well use a queue system to ensure speedy downloads. Read More
TC Cribs: A Trip To TV Land With Hulu
Sep 30, 5:01PM
Sit back, relax and don’t turn that dial, this week’s episode of Cribs takes us to the online television platform, Hulu. The company’s giant 90,000 square foot headquarters sit betwixt Hollywood and the tech world in Santa Monica, California, in the same building as HBO. And it has changed the way we watch television. Shows like the Mindy Project and the Last Man on Earth… Read More
Facebook Starts Letting You Add A 7-Second Looping Video As A Profile Pic
Sep 30, 5:00PM
To keep its decade-old social network lively, Facebook is introducing five big changes to user profiles, which are viewed 4 billion times per day: The option to pin Featured Photos to the top of the profile Temporary profile pics Easier visibility controls for About info including a new 100 character Bio field A mobile-centric design with centered profile photos plus big sections for… Read More
Injury Prevention Tech From Kitman Labs Helps Pro Athletes Stay Off The Bench
Sep 30, 4:57PM
Last season, the Los Angeles Lakers paid Kobe Bryant $23.5 million as he sat on the bench indefinitely with a torn rotator cuff. That’s just a fraction of the $500 million that injured players’ salaries cost professional sports teams last year alone. To keep more of their players in the starting lineup, NFL, MLB and NBA teams are increasingly turning to Kitman Labs. Read More
More Than A Dozen Startups Pledge To Cover Breast Cancer Testing Costs Through Color Genomics
Sep 30, 4:25PM
Color Genomics, a genetic testing startup from a few early Twitter veterans, is using its deep ties within the startup community to get more than a dozen startups and venture firms to cover half the cost of breast cancer testing for employees. The company, which tests for the breast and ovarian cancer risk genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, is offering tests at $249. That’s more than an order of… Read More
NodePrime Raises $7M In Seed Funding To Help Companies Manage Their Data Centers
Sep 30, 4:18PM
Managing a complex modern IT infrastructure is hard. NodePrime, a San Francisco-based startup that’s emerging from stealth today, wants to make it easier for companies to map, monitor and control their data centers. The company also today announced that it has raised a $7 million seed round with participation from the likes of Menlo Ventures, NEA, Formation 8, Ericsson, Initialized… Read More
Naytev Wants To Bring A Buzzfeed-Style Social Tool To Every Publisher With Spark
Sep 30, 4:15PM
Have you ever wished you knew how many likes or shares a Facebook post would get before you pressed the blue button? 2014 Y Combinator-backed startup Naytev recently launched Spark, a tool that will allow media brands to test their best messages before posting them to their Facebook pages. The practice, commonly known as “dark testing,” allows publications (like TechCrunch) to… Read More
Social News Aggregator Nuzzel Enlists Investors From The Media Industry
Sep 30, 4:00PM
Nuzzel, the social news startup led by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, is announcing a bunch of new investors today — including Matter, the Knight Foundation-backed incubator for media startups. Abrams didn’t say how much additional cash he’s raised, but he described the new funding as “relatively small in size compared to some of our tech-industry… Read More
Singularity University Launches Accelerator To Seize Academia's Innovation Monopoly
Sep 30, 3:48PM
Singularity University, the technology think tank and incubator, on Wednesday announced a new accelerator program that aims to push technologies out of research facilities and into the real world. SU Labs Accelerator’s portfolio boasts companies whose ambitious goals range from restoring vision to the blind to deploying lithium-ion power to schools in the developing world. Such… Read More
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