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Almost Famous: Savings.com's Loren Bendele
A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about. This week: A lunch date with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Loren...
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Almost Famous: Mehdi Maghsoodnia of BookRenter
A feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about. This week: We took a coffee break (and made an interview and video) with Mehdi Maghsoodnia,...
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Index Invests $25 Million in Sonos (Plus a Video Interview With VC Mike Volpi)
Earlier this week, BoomTown had lunch with Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi, the high-profile tech exec who turned into a venture capitalist recently at Index Ventures. We also did a video interview (see...
View ArticleNike's Not-So-Secret World Cup Ads Go Viral Before They Launch
The World Cup starts next month. So where’s the blitz of Nike (NKE) ads that always accompanies the globe’s biggest sporting event? Funny you should ask. Nike will formally start pushing out its new...
View ArticleTwitter Can't Promise It Will Stay Up During the World Cup
All those World Cup tweets you saw today? They’re not going to stop. And if they increase dramatically, well…Twitter can’t make any promises. That info comes at the bottom of a new blog post the...
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Newsflash! Big World Cup Game = Lots of Web Traffic, Twitter Fail Whales.
Of course Twitter failed during the U.S.-Algeria World Cup game yesterday. Twitter has been failing throughout the World Cup and does particularly badly when the U.S. plays. Not news. But! To be fair!...
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Coke Takes Out a Free Ad for Twitter Ads
So what do advertisers think about Twitter’s new “Promoted Trends” ad platform, which the service rolled out last week? Totally awesome! That’s the paraphrased verdict from Coca-Cola (KO), which tried...
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DST's Alexander Tamas Talks About New Investors, New Investments and Dealing...
After Russia-based Internet investor Digital Sky Technologies got $388 million in a stock-swapping deal with South Africa media giant Naspers–coming after an earlier $300 million investment from...
View ArticleCasual Contestant Shatters Texting Speed Record
Melissa Thompson, 27, of Salford, England, was out shopping over the weekend when the folks at a Samsung booth persuaded her to have a go at texting the official 26-word sentence used in determining...
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Microsoft of Arabia? If Windows Phone 7 Is as Freaky as This Ad, BoomTown...
Cue the desert music, mix in some swirling dust and a mirage, use a Middle Eastern font and a mysterioso tagline of “The Revolution Is Coming,” and show it at a movie screening of “Lawrence of...
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Google Buys Phonetic Arts to Make Machines Sound Human
Google is beefing up its voice services with today’s acquisition of Cambridge, England-based Phonetic Arts. Google’s view is that voice will be critical in making mobile devices with small screens and...
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RockYou Acquires Playdemic for Bigger Push Into Social Games
RockYou has acquired Playdemic of Manchester, England, to continue its transformation from a widget-maker on Facebook to a social games developer. RockYou plans to keep Playdemic independent, but will...
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Google Confirms That Groupon COO Will Be Google's Margo Georgiadis
Margo Georgiadis (pictured here), VP of Global Sales Operations at Google, will be COO of Groupon, Google confirmed. She is currently located in Chicago, where the social buying site is headquartered....
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Tick, Tick, Tick, HP Board: The Time to Act Is Today
The Hewlett-Packard board will meet as a whole today, after all kinds of committee confabs yesterday, in what sources describe as an intense debate over the fate of its current CEO, Léo Apotheker. You...
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Britain's First Software Billionaire Now Reports to HP CEO Meg Whitman
Hewlett-Packard just announced that it had closed its acquisition of the British software firm Autonomy. This is the company that HP decided to acquire under previous CEO Léo Apotheker on Aug. 18 for...
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Viral Video: Google Street View Address Is Approximately a Hit
Here’s a video I beg you not to miss, if you missed it last week in the holiday swirl. Made by a talented London production company called The Theory, using Google Street View, stop-action photography...
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Will That Be Sir Jonathan, or Sir Jony?
Apple design guru Jonathan “Jony” Ive has been awarded a second knighthood by the Queen of England as part of her annual list of honors. Ive has been named Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order...
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Spotify's Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same
Shakil Khan, the well-known head of special projects for the popular Spotify music service, is taking a job with the same title at Path, the fast-growing personal social networking start-up. Khan will...
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Yammer Makes Its First Acquisition: OneDrum
A little more than a month ago, the social enterprise and collaboration start-up Yammer raised an impressive $85 million funding round at an implied valuation somewhere in the neighborhood of $1...
View ArticleIndex Ventures Raises $442 Million in New Fund
Index Ventures said it had raised 350 million euros ($442 million) in a new sixth venture capital fund, which will be aimed at early-stage investments in the U.S., Israel and Europe. The London-based...
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