Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 365 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Firefox, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 4

Mozilla released Firefox 4 about a month ago and they hit 100 million downloads within one month. The milestone was revealed by the Firefox download stats ticker. Now Firefox 4 has a 7.94% browser market according to StatCounter. Internet Explorer 8.0 has 29.99%, Firefox 3.6 has 24.43%, and Chrome 10 has 15.35%. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 475 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, T-Mobile

BoyGeniusReport.com was sent a screenshot of an iPhone 4 with the T-Mobile signal indicator appearing on the top left where the AT&T, Verizon, or a WiFi symbol would normally be placed. It is likely that Apple employees are testing a T-Mobile friendly radio with an iPhone for future possibilities. It makes sense to do some testing now since AT&T has plans to acquire T-Mobile.
Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 292 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Jiayuan

Jiayuan is a Chinese dating website that plans on raising $100 million in a U.S. initial public offering under the Nasdaq symbol “DATE.” Jiayuan’s goal is to help people that go on dates end up in marriage. Jiayuan’s filing did not specify a price range of the shares or the number of American Depositary Shares that will be sold.

Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 440 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Accelerator Ventures, Brad Keywell, Charles River Ventures, DoubleDutch, Eric Lefkofsky, Launch Capital, Lightbank, Venture51, Zig Capital

DoubleDutch is an enterprise mobile start-up company that has raised $1.2 million in funding. The lead investor is Lightbank, a venture capital firm run by Groupon co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell. Charles River Ventures, Launch Capital, Accelerator Ventures, Venture51, Zig Capital, and other angel investors also participated in this round.

Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 836 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Android, Dell Inc., Dell Latitude ST, Dell Latitude XT-3, Dell Streak Pro, Google Android, Microsoft Corporation, Windows 7

The names, specifications, and release dates of Dell’s newest tablets running on Windows and Android have been leaked by AndroidCentral.

Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 476 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Big Switch Networks, Bill Meehan, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Mark Leslie, Mike Volpi, Shirish Sathaye

Big Switch Networks has raised $13.75 million in a first round of funding. Big Switch Networks is working on building a platform that will bring virtualization and a cloud architecture to enterprise networks. Four new directors will be joining the board at Big Switch Networks as a result of the funding: Mark Leslie, Bill Meehan, Shirish Sathaye, and Mike Volpi. The investors in this round include Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. [San Jose Business Journal]
Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 2,244 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Beats by Dr. Dre, Chrysler, Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine

Chrysler Group and Beats By Dr. Dre has announced a new partnership that brings a studio quality experience into cars for the first time. Beats by Dr. Dre will be rolled into the 2012 Chrysler 300S to start. Beats by Dr. Dre founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine had worked closely with the engineering team at Chrysler to design the audio system that contains 10 speakers.

Amit Chowdhry | April 25, 2011 | 368 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Baidu, Baidu Ting, Kaiser Kuo

The Chinese government is penalizing Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) for allowing users to download music illegally. The government is penalizing 14 different websites for illegal music downloads, which include Baidu. The Xinhua news agency in China reported this matter today. These websites were repeatedly warned about the illegal music downloads.
