Bill Gurley Explains How Twitter Will Rule The World And Why Groupon Won’t (Matt Rosoff/SAI: Silicon Alley Insider)
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:Bill Gurley Explains How Twitter Will Rule The World And Why Groupon Won’t — Benchmark Capital led a $35 million investment Twitter back in 2009 before the company was fashionable, and has stakes in other hot young tech companies like OpenTable, Yelp, and Zillow. — Partner Bill Gurley is [...]
DROPBOX: We’ll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To (Steve Kovach/SAI: Silicon Alley Insider)
Steve Kovach / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:DROPBOX: We’ll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To — This is nothing groundbreaking, but Dropbox has updated its security Terms of Service to say that if the government asks, they will have to decrpyt user’s files and turn them over. — That’s standard [...]
Steve Jobs: Tablets Are Not PCs And Our Competitors Don’t Get It (Matt Rosoff/SAI: Silicon Alley Insider)
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:Steve Jobs: Tablets Are Not PCs And Our Competitors Don’t Get It — The iPad is not a computer, and competitors who approach it like the PC market will fail, says Apple’s Steve Jobs. — Like he did at last year’s iPad introduction, Jobs closed today’s iPad 2 event [...]
SURPRISE: Developing For Windows Phone 7 Isn’t A Total Waste Of Time (Matt Rosoff/Silicon Alley Insider)
Matt Rosoff / Silicon Alley Insider:SURPRISE: Developing For Windows Phone 7 Isn’t A Total Waste Of Time — The conventional wisdom among developers is to target the largest available platform. — According to that wisdom, developing apps for Windows Phone 7 is at best a “wait and see” prospect, and at worst a total waste [...]
Here’s How Apple’s iPad Is Invading The Business World (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider)
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Here’s How Apple’s iPad Is Invading The Business World — Apple’s iPad is a consumer device, first and foremost. (And it’s a good one, at that.) — But a few recent events have illustrated how the iPad could also potentially become an important device for business and enterprise users …
Netflix Bends To Warner Bros., Won’t Rent DVDs For 28 Days After They Go On Sale (NFLX) (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider)
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Netflix Bends To Warner Bros., Won’t Rent DVDs For 28 Days After They Go On Sale (NFLX) — This will please the movie industry: Netflix has agreed to a 28-day window before it rents Warner Bros. DVDs and Blu-ray discs after they go on sale. The idea is that this [...]
Amazon’s New Video Streaming Service Will Disrupt The CDN Industry(AMZN, AKAM, LLWN) (Dan Rayburn/Silicon Alley Insider)
Dan Rayburn / Silicon Alley Insider:Amazon’s New Video Streaming Service Will Disrupt The CDN Industry(AMZN, AKAM, LLWN) — This morning, Amazon announced that their CloudFront content delivery service now supports Flash streaming as long as the videos are stored on Amazon’s S3 service. Amazon has deployed version 3.5.2 …
