Archive for April, 2010

Windows XP Errors Sounds Uncomfortably Harmonious [VIDEO]

Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 568 views | Add a Comment
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If the viruses on your Windows XP computer decides to have a party, I have a feeling that this is what it would be like. Check out the video below. [BuzzFeed]

Ann Arbor Firm Mobil33t Sells iPhone App DoGood To Tonic.com

Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 4,190 views | 1 Comment
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Tonic.com has acquired iPhone application DoGood from Ann Arbor, Michigan mobile firm Mobil33t.  DoGood [iTunes link] is a Lifestyle iPhone and iPod Touch application that suggests users to do a specific good deed that the the application says for the day.  Mobil33t used social media resources on Facebook and Twitter to give the application publicity and gain awareness about their cause.  The crowdsourcing around the Twitter hashtag #DoGood helped virally market the application too.  After you complete the good deed suggested by DoGood, simply press done.  Mobil33t worked with the University of Michigan student organization DoRAK (Do Random Acts of Kindness) on the application.

LendingClub Raises $24.5M In Series C

Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 752 views | Add a Comment
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Lending Club has raised $24.5 million in Series C funding from Foundation Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and Canaan Partners.  The company now has a total of $52.7 million in funding.  The additional funding will be used to advance their existing platform which allows lenders and borrowers to avoid the middleman (banks) for investing among peers.  This round of funding will also be used for launching new products, marketing, and improving customer service. [PRNewsWire]

Oracle Acquires Drug Data Software Firm Phase Forward For $685M

Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 3,980 views | Add a Comment
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Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) has agreed to acquire drug data management company Phase Forward Incorporated (NASDAQ:PFWD)? for $685 million. Oracle will be paying Phase Forward shareholders $17 per share which is a 30% premium of the closing stock price from last Thursday ($13.08). The deal is expected to close in mid-2010. Phase Forward’s clients include AstraZeneca and Boston Scientific. [DealBook]

Friendless South Park Character Kip Drordy Has Over 150,000 Facebook Fans

Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 5,243 views | Add a Comment
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Recently South Park had a Facebook themed episode that featured a friendless character named Kip Drordy.  He was also considered to be lame because his Facebook status updates were usually mundane, such as “There was a bee in my room.”  In real life Drordy is friendless no more.  Now he has over 150,000 Fans on Facebook in real life.  Drordy’s Facebook Fan page was created by a South Park fan in North Carolina. [Facebook Fan Page]

Josh Berman and Diego Berkadin Leave MySpace’s Slingshot Labs

Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 1,999 views | Add a Comment
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Slingshot Labs, the R&D arm of MySpace recently saw two of their key executives resign. The two executives are EVP of Strategy and Product Diego Berkadin and President Josh Berman. According to a source with TechCrunch, the two executives gave in their resignations to News Corp. Digital Chief Jon Miller last week. Slingshot Labs is supposed to be working on a “LinkedIn Killer” service that would be integrated with The Wall Street Journal. The progress on that project is unknown.

Another reason why Berman’s resignation is significant is because this means that all of MySpace founders are no longer with News Corporation. Josh Berman was COO of MySpace when News Corp. bought them out. Chris DeWolf, Tom Anderson, Aber Whitcomb, and Colin Digiaro did not stick around for long after News Corp. bought MySpace. [TechCrunch]

Microsoft Changes Kin Ad That Encouraged Sexting [VIDEO]

Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 735 views | Add a Comment
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has changed an ad that encouraged people to perform in “sexting” using their mobile phones. This ad shows a man put a phone in his shirt, take a picture, and SMS it over to another person at a party. Consumer Reports captured the ad and uploaded it to YouTube with a description that says “Microsoft is promoting its new Kin cell phones, aimed at socially networked young people, with an ad that we think comes uncomfortably close to encouraging sexting–that is, sending nude photos via cell phone.”

“Microsoft takes the issue of sexting very seriously and it was never our intent to promote it in any way,” stated a Microsoft spokesperson. The original video can be seen here:

The New iPhone Will Most Likely Have A Webcam At The Front [SCREENSHOT]

Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 1,744 views | Add a Comment
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Gizmodo broke an amazing story today: pictures and a video of a new upcoming iPhone. Gizmodo’s story instantly hit 2 million views in a day, hit 4,000+ Diggs, and received 20,000 retweets.

The new iPhone was allegedly found at a bar in Redwood City, California camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3G S. Gizmodo got their hands on it and disassembled it. If this is a real production model of the new iPhone, features will include a front-facing video chat camera, improved back camera, Micro-SIM instead of a standard SIM card, improved display, secondary mic for noise cancellation, split volume buttons, and metallic power/mute/volume buttons. The new iPhone would have an entirely flat back instead of the rounded edges. According to the person that found the iPhone, they said that iPhone OS 4.0 was already installed on the phone before the actual iPhone OS 4.0 announcement was made.

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