Two-year-old Hulu, which has quickly become Americans’ preferred method of consuming TV online, is now blocking startups from embedding its video library. But while Hulu is now (mostly) unfriendly to startup video aggregators, it’s still sharing its videos with its corporate parents’ friends: the big web portals and MSOs. Put together, the retroactive [...] Full story...
Citrix's announcement that its Receiver software will allow iPad users to run Windows 7 sessions via virtualization has caused predictions that the iPad may have much promise as a business tool.
I was totally on board with Google Buzz, the company’s late entry into the modern-day social web launching today, until it became dramatically evident how freaked out Google is by Facebook.
Cloud storage startup Nasuni entered public beta today, bringing with it a new, but familiar, approach to storing primary data: It sells software that looks and acts like a traditional file system but stores data in cloud offerings from Amazon, Rackspace, Nirvanix and Iron Mountain.
It's clear that location is an opportunity ready for its time, but making technology smarter by knowing where we are is by necessarily a part of a platform, not an end unto itself.
TweepML, which launched a Twitter-based service offering list management just a couple of months before Twitter launched something almost identical, is now up for sale.
The famously private investor David Gelbaum, founder of The Quercus Trust, who by his own estimates has between 40 and 50 cleantech investments, as a rule hasn't done interviews for years.
With more than 4 billion mobile phone users and some 1.7 billion Internet users, there's a market opportunity to provide web-style services for people who aren't online.
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's new startup, Tiny Speck, has announced its first product, a massively multiplayer online game called Glitch.
Twilio is launching an SMS service that allows web app developers to add SMS-based functionality into their web apps for about 3 cents a message.
Foursquare is working with Zagat, HBO and other high-profile media brands to get a leg up on competitors like Gowalla and Yelp.