Startup News
Comcast to buy GE's stake of NBCUniversal for $16.7B
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 23:54
Giant media company and TV/Internet service provider Comcast has decided it wants to own all of NBCUniversal, offering minority shareholder GE a huge bag of cash.
New Year's Resolutions For Car Companies And Consumers
Forbes - 12 Feb 2013 23:27
A clean slate provides some opportunities for car companies and their customers to get it right in 2013.
HBO Go kinda comes to Apple TV (via Airplay)
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 23:23
Rumors that Apple was working on bringing HBO's streaming video counterpart HBO Go to its Apple TV set-top box last week proved half-true today.
Why struggling startups should look beyond large company bailouts
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 22:44
Guest Post Virtually all tech acquisitions are characterized by large companies buying small companies, often for cash. But why does this have to be the case? Why can't small companies also participate in this bonanza of...
Wall Street says 'meh' to Tim Cook's fireside chat, Apple stock falls another $11 a share
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 22:32
"I'm very proud that we're out front ... that we're changing people's lives ... that we're doing what's right and just in moving the ball forward," Cook said today. "I don't mean to gush, but it's how I feel."
Intel's TV service/set-top box will be smart -- but *not* cheap
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 22:00
It's no secret that chip-maker Intel is planning to release a revolutionary new television service that will allegedly change the way people watch TV forever. What we don't know is the validity of those "revolutionary" c...
New Dropbox features are for the pros
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 21:40
The cloud storage wars are heating up: Dropbox has released a series of features for its Teams service that will boost its appeal to large corporate customers.
Looking to split people up, Virgin Mobile & OkCupid pair for 'National Breakup Day'
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 21:21
Not feeling Valentine's Day? Neither are wireless carrier Virgin Mobile and online dating service OKCupid.
Yahoo shows mobile ambitions with acquisition of location discovery app Alike
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 20:42
Yahoo took a big step toward making its mobile experience better today by acquiring location discovery app Alike.
Consumer United bands together $52M to lower insurance costs
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 20:05
Online insurance agency Consumer United forms consumer groups to access deals and discounts on insurance.
Thirst looks beyond Twitter to launch a social news network of its own
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 19:59
Thirst Labs' latest app is like a personalized newspaper.
Pulse's new 'Highlights' feature makes sense of all that social news sharing
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 19:32
Digital news magazine app Pulse has always been good at making sense of the many news sources available online, but now it wants to cull the insanity of your social circle to find only the most popular articles and links...
The Decline of Trust (and What We can Do About It)
Forbes - 12 Feb 2013 19:15It's so easy to start a company, everyone's doing it now
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 19:11
Why are there so many Pinterest clones and subscription-commerce sites? It's all thanks to a decade of engineering that has made it cheaper to start a company than ever before.
Treehouse will now teach you to use the command line. Poseur.
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 19:00
If you've been simultaneously intimidated and allured by the command line for too long, learn-to-code company Treehouse is here to help.
Twenty Female Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter
Forbes - 12 Feb 2013 18:57
20 brilliant young female founders to follow on Twitter to build an online network of e-mentors.
BlueStacks uses Android to fix the crummy Windows 8 app lineup
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 18:41
BlueStacks is launching its Android app player for Windows 8, giving Surface owners access to hundreds of thousands of Android apps.
Apple stores are 'prozak,' Tim Cook says (and we're adding 30 more this year)
Venture Beat - 12 Feb 2013 18:40
"If I ever feel I'm dropping down from an excitement level, I go in a store ... it's like a Prozak," Cook said. "It's a feeling like no other."
15 Ways To Invite An IRS Audit
Forbes - 12 Feb 2013 18:25
There's no reason to pay more tax than is legally required, but there's also no reason to make yourself a target for an Internal Revenue Service audit or to get your return flagged by the IRS' computers, which match bill...
Important Franchisee Legalese
NuWire - 12 Feb 2013 18:24
So-called "boilerplate" contract language that is agreed to by franchisees (or their attorneys) should not be taken likely. Sometimes this language can make the difference between, say, being insured for a natural disast...
Tuesday Sector Laggards: Education & Training Services, Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing Stocks
Forbes - 12 Feb 2013 18:17
In trading on Tuesday, education & training services shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.2%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Ata ADS (ATAI), off about 9.5% and shares of Capella Education...