Posts Tagged ‘VentureBeat’

Gmail’s Priority Inbox available for all, lives up to hype

Earlier this week, Google launched Gmail Priority Inbox , a new feature that will automatically sort your mail to combat email overload. ... (Continue reading)

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Twitter: 300,000 apps, but none of them matter

Twitter CEO Ev Williams posted a blog entry Thursday with an update on the microblogging service’s usage, which continues to grow sharply. More interesting than the numbers, though, was the message written between the lines: Twitter now has 145... (Continue reading)

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3 ways to improve entrepreneurial success

John Osher, developer of the low-cost spin toothbrush, was a successful entrepreneur because he thought differently. William Sahlman, professor at Harvard Business School, breaks down the three most important factors in Osher’s success in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture... (Continue reading)

Twitter’s new iPad app — smooth as butter

Much awaited by many, Twitter  released its official iPad app some hours ago. And it’s something of a gem — if you think you know what Twitter apps on touch screen devices feel like, you’re going to be in... (Continue reading)

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Why didn’t Apple launch its own TV? That will be its next step

Now that it has relaunched Apple TV, the next step in Apple’s living room strategy is the launch of an Apple-branded TV. Some wags expected Apple do so yesterday at its event where it launched the new $99 Apple... (Continue reading)

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Yammer 2.0: A Facebook for the Warren Buffett set

Yammer, originally launched as a “ Twitter for businesses ,” will soon expand its services into a full-on social network like Facebook — built to help streamline workplaces and network business professionals. Along with a redesign to be more... (Continue reading)

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Bootstrapping band of brothers raise $30M for people search engine Inflection

Brian and Matthew Monahan weren’t quite sure how to raise venture capital funding, so they built Inflection from scratch and made it profitable with its first website for searching public records, Archives.com. Now, they seem to have a pretty... (Continue reading)

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Apple’s iTunes-only Ping socializes your music with elements of Facebook (video demo)

As part of version 10 of iTunes, Apple announced its Ping social network for music fans. The new social network lets you publicly announce the music that you like. You can share it with your friends and make Twitter-like... (Continue reading)

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Why Apple’s Ping is about cutting out the social middleman

This morning at a press conference in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Ping , a social network for music that will be bundled into the next version of iTunes, its music software. After ten iterations of iTunes,... (Continue reading)

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A video demo of the new Apple TV shows a simple and elegant interface

After Apple’s press conference today, we were able to check out demos of new Apple products. Here’s our video of the new Apple TV’s user interface. The device is about a quarter of the size of the old Apple... (Continue reading)

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