The Fire Hose
This section shares a short list of some of our favorite news and information sites. Click on the links below and read for yourself.
» http://techcrunch.com
- Wishpond Launches Mall360 To Bring Your Local Shopping Mall Online
- Machinima Gets $35M In Funding, Led By Google
- Disrupt NYC Day 1: Your Startup Battlefield Companies
- Babelverse Is Out To Democratize Translation
- Sprint’s EVO 4G LTE Has Cleared U.S. Customs, Pre-Orders To Be Filled As Early As May 24
- Tagbrand Gives Fashionistas An App To Check-In Their Brands
- Stevie Turns Your Social Feeds Into TV Shows
- StyleSaint Wants To Turn Virtual Fashion Tear Sheets Into Custom Apparel
- Led By Former Microsofties, GitHub Brings The Party To Enterprise With New Windows Client
- Punch! Launches A Platform For Building Interactive iPad Apps, Sans Developers
» http://www.moconews.net
- Is a cheaper, ad-supported Kindle Fire on the way?
- Urban Airship prepares for its Super Bowl moment
- How mobile networks are policing the web — badly
- Will Facebook adapt to mobile or will mobile adapt to Facebook?
- Japan’s Docomo buying mobile content powerhouse Buongiorno for €224 million
- Expect a 6 month freeze on Facebook’s Instagram acquisition
- Nokia launches Reading app for Lumia in Europe
- Beyond the birds: Rovio finally ready to diversify?
- Samsung boosts its mobile ecosystem with mSpot purchase
- Want to disinherit the kids? There’s an app for that
» http://www.gigaom.com
- EMC buys Syncplicity to serve as Dropbox for business
- Flash Valet’s mobile app accelerates your car’s return
- The Webby Awards assemble all-star cast to honor Steve Jobs
- 3 UK firms that sound boring but make some cool mobile tech
- Emails reveal new details about Arianna’s role in HuffPo founding
- If you want to build the next Siri, ai-one wants to help
- Google leads $35M funding round for Machinima
- Wall Street got the Facebook IPO it deserved
- HTC EVO 4G LTE phones pass Customs; on way to Sprint customers
- Ark’s people search engine banking on Facebook-Google rift
» http://www.venturebeat.com
- Motorola’s DreamGallery wants to eliminate crappy TV user interfaces
- Funding daily: Safely use a wifi hotspot to buy your house something pretty
- Entrepreneur “student fair on steroids” brings heavy hitter VCs to Stanford
- Reddit kicks off new gift exchange to boost troop morale
- Stitch Labs integrates with BigCommerce to help small sellers track their stuff
- Google ponies up $10M for fraud case patents
- Spotify brings its streaming music nirvana to Australia and New Zealand
- Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz steps back due to illness
- Google gives Cornell’s NYC tech school free space in its headquarters
- Google’s Motorola buy closing this week, layoffs likely coming (report)
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- Samsung notes 4G chip shortage; Some Motorola phones may be blocked in U.S.
- Apple's Cook, Samsung's Choi to meet on patent dispute
- Cable companies agree to nationwide Wi-Fi roaming deal
- MVNO Voyager Mobile launches unlimited $19 and $39 plans
- Google gets Chinese approval for Motorola deal, must keep Android free and open
- Forget net adds and ARPU – the future of wireless is 'revenue per account'
- Grading the top 10 U.S. carriers in the first quarter of 2012
- T-Mobile isn't jumping on the shared-data plan bandwagon
- Smartphone growth to propel LTE to 1B connections by 2017
- German operators slam regulator over LTE approval delays