This is the latest from Tech Crunch: Angel investors gorged on one of their twice-a-year feeding frenzies at Y Combinator’s demo day earlier this week. Among other things, SV Angel and Yuri Milner finally got to see what they invested in a couple of months ago when they made a blanket $150,000 convertible debt offer [...]
Yuri Milner , founder of Moscow-based venture firm DST , has purchased quite a home in Silicon Valley, say multiple sources. The 25,000 square foot home, built just a few years ago sits on a tidy 11 acres. The price? $70 million. For personal reasons we aren’t going to print the address. But we’ve heard that Milner isn’t there much anyway and has no immediate plans to move to the U.S. Milner wouldn’t comment on the story, which isn’t surprising. He’s an intensely private person, as you can see from my interview with him earlier this year at the Crunchies, where he won Venture Capitalist of the Year. CrunchBase Information Yuri Milner Information provided by CrunchBase
This is the latest from Tech Crunch: Click for a larger version. The search wars have officially arrived! That’s right folks, Google’s ongoing quest to make its search results more impervious to spammers has become an infographic , which basically is a badge of honor for any tech bitchmeme. Closet and not so closet SEO [...]
This is the latest from Tech Crunch: App monetization and distribution platform Tapjoy is rolling out a publishing platform to support game developers, Tapjoy Publishing. Tapjoy, which used to be Offerpal , allows developers of mobile and social apps to turn on virtual currency, analytics and other monetization tools to their iPhone, Android and Facebook [...]
Samsung just announced their two new Galaxy Tabs , the 8.9 and the 10.1. Both are just 8.6 millimeters thick and support 4G and WiFi. Click through to watch the live video launch of these two Honeycomb tablets (with TouchWiz on top).
I woke up this morning and my Twitter stream looked like a Facebook Wall on a teenager’s birthday. “Happy birthday, Twitter!” “Twitter, you’re the best, happy bday!” “Can’t believe you’re five Twitter!” These messages came in fast and furious from folks in the tech sphere, folks not in the tech sphere, celebrities, Twitter employees. On and on and on
With all the real trouble in the world these days, it seems small-minded to ponder the impact of the latest wave of technologies on our lives. After all, TechCrunch is a blog about startups and the Valley, with only a tangential relationship to the struggles in Japan and the Middle East. But the larger theme of the role and limits of technology in solving our problems still resonates across this divide.
The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — or at lest 4/5ths of them were decked out with iPad 2s. That didn’t prevent the usual argument from breaking out about the New York Times’ pay wall.
Yesterday, I laid out why the new Netflix original content plan could be a game-changer in terms of television content and the ultimate disruption of cable. But it still all depends on if the show(s) they pick end up being hits. It appears that Netflix’s first bet, House of Cards , is just about as good of a bet as you could make — but it’s still no guarantee.
Two out of the three remaining Reddit programmers quietly left the social news community last week, Mike Schiraldi going to Google and David King going to Hipmunk where he joins Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. This means that the over one billion page view a month site is currently running with only one developer (Neil Williams, hired in November) and two sysadmins until it can hire new engineering staff. Reddit, which experiences about 75 million monthly visits and is one of the top 100 most visited sites on the Internet, had six hours worth of downtime yesterday which it chalked up to an Amazon Web Services failure.