Cartoon: Hold Your Horses There, Zuckerberg
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Married Mr. Zuckerberg, Business Man?
With a wedding ring on his finger and his company public, is Mark Zuckerberg ready to make Facebook produce more profits, not just more social connections?
His fanfare-less marriage to long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan this weekend would seem to indicate he won’t be getting too distracted by family
Elaborate Nike YouTube video has hidden Sonic Game (video)
When you’ve got a marketing budget the size of Nike’s, a few international footballers and a glossy video aren’t really enough. That’s why its latest "My time is now" campaign is an all out interactive spend-fest, complete with a hidden Sega Sonic the Hedgehog mini-game. The standard YouTube version
Microsoft’s New Social Network, So.cl: It’s Like Google+ For Wonks
File this in the "we-try-it-out-so-you-don’t-have-to" category. So.cl is a derivative social network that may be useful to students, but it won’t fly elsewhere.
Over the weekend, Microsoft quietly launched an experimental social network called So.cl. It’s a mix between Google+ and Storify. Users are
ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity Series hits the FCC
Remember that high-resolution variant of the Transformer Prime ASUS trotted out at CES? The federal government just finished putting it through its paces. The WiFi version of the firm’s upcoming Transformer Pad Infinity (formally numbered TF700T) sauntered its way through the FCC, revealing itself as
How The Media (Including TechCrunch) Is Wrong About Facebook’s IPO
Judging by many of the headlines on Friday, you might think that Facebook’s IPO was a miserable failure. The Wall Street Journal declared, “Facebook’s IPO Sputters,” and our very own TechCrunch declared that bankers were “struggling” to keep the share price up. Nevermind that it was the highest ever
Hands-on with the Electric Imp at Maker Faire (video)
Yesterday at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 we visited the Electric Imp booth to chat with the startup’s founders and get some hands-on time with the tiny wireless computer. What is the Electric Imp? It’s a module containing an ARM Cortex M3 SoC with embedded WiFi that’s built into an SD card form factor.
Yahoo to sell back half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1 billion, more in the latter’s future IPO
It’s been a bit of a sour year for Yahoo — it’s seen the departure of one of its founding fathers, suffered through a patent dispute with Facebook and lost its new CEO in a sea of scandalous accusations. Yikes. At least former head honcho Scott Thompson’s negotiations to sell the firm’s stake in Alibaba
Backstage With The Disrupt NYC Hackathon Winners: Thingscription, PoachBase, & PractiKhan
The speaker schedule for TechCrunch’s Disrupt NYC conference has been set for a while now, but three brand new presenters were just added to the lineup: The winners announced earlier today at the finale of this past weekend’s 24 hour Disrupt 2012 Hackathon, Thingscription, PoachBase, and PractiKhan.
Cartoon: Hold Your Horses There, Zuckerberg
See more of Rob’s cartoons at Noise to Signal.