News tagged with startup
Apple in talks to buy Lala.com
Dec 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application.
Sezmi offers a new kind of TV service
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Sezmi, a Silicon Valley startup that's pioneering a new type of TV service, is opening up a public test of its system Monday in California.
Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body
Nov 11, 2009 |
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James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart.
Google co-founder Brin prefers Yahoo! without Bing
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!
Venture-capital investments down 33 pct in 3Q
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Venture capitalists' investments in U.S. startups rose in the third quarter when compared with the first two quarters of the year, suggesting increased confidence in the economy. When compared with the year-ago period, ...
Google ready to open wallet again after stellar 3Q
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s earnings and stock price are soaring again - and so is the Internet search leader's optimism.
Something to tweet about: Twitter valued at $1B
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Twitter Inc.'s founders now have a billion-dollar baby, and they seem determined to raise it without a corporate parent.
Social online TV and invisible speakers among 'DEMOgods'
Sep 24, 2009 |
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An online network for farmers, social Internet television, and invisible speakers were among startups taking laurels this week at the DEMO technology conference here known as a launch pad for winning firms.
Date Check turns smart phones into 'sleaze detectors'
Sep 23, 2009 |
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People in the dating scene will be able to use iPhones as "sleaze detectors" to quickly check whether aspiring mates are creeps or gems.
Journalism still finding recruits if not profits
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- At 21, Alana Taylor has already seen her career in journalism transformed and perhaps cut short by the technology reshaping the news business.
Loopt shows iPhone a new trick
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Apple's iPhone has been a sensation from its launch -- even if, digitally speaking, it can't walk and chew gum at the same time. There are now more than 65,000 applications in the App Store, but the iPhone runs only one ...
Facebook testing Twitter-like 'Lite' version
Aug 12, 2009 |
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The Internet was buzzing Wednesday with talk of Facebook testing a streamlined "Lite" version of the social-networking service that could challenge microblogging sensation Twitter.
Low-Budget Fusion Reactor Could Generate Energy within a Decade
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, most nuclear fusion power plants are large, expensive projects that will take decades to benefit from. But a startup company in Vancouver, Canada, called General Fusion is taking ...
AOL tries to recapture that startup feeling
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It might seem an odd move for a company that relies on money from advertising. Yet AOL is reducing the number of ads it shows on its home page and some other Web sites it runs.
California sprouts marijuana 'green rush'
Jul 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A drug deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased Smart Car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his ...
