Amit Chowdhry | October 18, 2010 | 1,557 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Facebook, James Grable, Judge Richard Arcara, Mark Zuckerberg, Orin Synder, Paul Ceglia

Paul Ceglia is a man in New York that is claiming that he is entitled to 84% ownership in social networking website Facebook.com. Ceglia’s lawyers are arguing that since Mark Zuckerberg lives out of a duffel bag, the lawsuit should be tried in the state of New York. They claim Zuckerberg has not set his legal roots in California.

Amit Chowdhry | October 18, 2010 | 1,041 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Digg, Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow recently hit 1 million questions and they receive about 60 million page views per month. Stack Overflow runs on only 5 servers. Social bookmarking service Digg.com receives 200 million pageviews per month and runs on 500 servers. Proportionately something seems off according to Joel Spolsky, the co-founder of Stack Overflow.

Amit Chowdhry | October 18, 2010 | 692 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under DeviantART

DeviantART is a 10 year old website known for having an extremely vibrant stock photography community. There are about 15 million members on the website. DeviantART recently announced that they will be working with Fotolia to allow members to start selling their stock photography. “DeviantART is the purest of all artist communities throughout the world. It works on democratic philosophy that complements our goals with Fotolia,” said Fotolia in a statement. DeviantART also recently released an HTML5 painting application that works on the iPad. [ReadWriteWeb]
Amit Chowdhry | October 18, 2010 | 2,161 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Apple App Store, Apple Inc., Google, Google Android Market, Tango

Tango is a mobile video chat application that launched a couple of weeks ago. The company reported that they hit 1 million mobile application downloads in 10 days. The Tango application allows users to video chat on Android and iOS on 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi.

Amit Chowdhry | October 18, 2010 | 480 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Restaurant.com

The daily deals business model never ceases to impress me including Groupon and LivingSocial growing across hundreds of local markets. Another daily deal accomplishment made this month was by Restaurant.com.

Amit Chowdhry | October 18, 2010 | 713 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Alibaba Group, Alibaba.com, Etao.com, Microsoft Corporation

Alibaba.com Limited (HKG:1688) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) have partnered with each other to create a new website called Etao. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) owns about 40% of Alibaba.com. Etao has the potential to be a major competitor to Baidu Inc. in China. Etao would also drive traffic to Alibaba’s retail website Taobao.com.

Amit Chowdhry | October 14, 2010 | 798 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Emergence Capital Partners, xAD

xAD is a mobile advertising that creates local ads. The company has raised $4 million in funding from Emergence Capital Partners. xAD is already profitable but they plan to use the funding for expansion and advancing their technology platform. xAD can identify, who, what, and where end users are and serves them relevant advertising. xAD currently serves 200 million local ad requests per month and has partnered with large mobile ad networks like Millenial Media for providing local ads. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | October 14, 2010 | 1,249 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Facebook

Facebook has launched a couple of new security features for those who log in from public computers. The first security feature is a temporary one-time password and the second feature is the ability to sign out of Facebook remotely. Here is how they both work:
