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Techmeme: With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins (Colleen Taylor/TechCrunch) Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins — Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the foundin...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:16pm -07:00T (54 words)
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Techmeme: How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses — Three months ago, celebrated video game publisher Valve did something completely out of character: it fired up to 25 workers, in what ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 8:01pm -07:00T (46 words)
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Techmeme: Welcome to Google Island (Mat Honan/Wired)
Mat Honan / Wired:
Welcome to Google Island — I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco's Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 5:31pm -07:00T (54 words)
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Techmeme: One issue holding up Apple iRadio: The economics of skipping songs (Paul Sloan/CNET)
Paul Sloan / CNET:
One issue holding up Apple iRadio: The economics of skipping songs — Apple wants to roll out its streaming music service this summer, but it's still hammering out details with Sony Music over some very specific terms. —...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 3:16pm -07:00T (58 words)
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Techmeme: At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom (Nick Bilton/NYT Bits)
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom — The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal. — I had just wrapped up a conversation ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 2:01pm -07:00T (57 words)
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Techmeme: With PayPal-Like Ambitions For Bitcoin, BitPay Raises $2M Led By Founders Fund (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
With PayPal-Like Ambitions For Bitcoin, BitPay Raises $2M Led By Founders Fund — BitPay, the startup with ambitions to become the PayPal of the bitcoin world, is today announcing that it has raised another $2 million....
Dateline: 2013-05-18 11:46am -07:00T (60 words)
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Techmeme: Glasses with Google Glass: Prescription versions appear at Google I/O (Scott Stein/CNET)
Scott Stein / CNET:
Glasses with Google Glass: Prescription versions appear at Google I/O — What about Google Glass for those who don't like contacts? A few glasses with Glass attached were lurking on the show floor. — SAN FRANCISCO&mda...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:31am -07:00T (54 words)
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Techmeme: GrubSeam? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge (Rip Empson/TechCrunch)
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
GrubSeam? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge — Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:16am -07:00T (53 words)
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Techmeme: Tumblr May Reject Yahoo's $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being "Too Low" (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Tumblr May Reject Yahoo's $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low” — Tumblr feels that Yahoo's $1.1 billion offer as “too low” and view it as “only a first offer”, according to s...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 8:01am -07:00T (53 words)
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Techmeme: If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn? (Joshua Brustein/Businessweek)
Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:
If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn? — If Yahoo succeeds in its attempt to acquire Tumblr, it will end up with one of the hottest Internet properties in today's Web, with access to the coveted...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 6:46am -07:00T (64 words)
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Techmeme: Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million user IDs leaked: Kyodo (Neha Alawadhi/Reuters)
Neha Alawadhi / Reuters:
Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million user IDs leaked: Kyodo — (Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp said on Friday night it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been “leaked” and it detected an unauthor...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 3:01am -07:00T (60 words)
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Techmeme: Canada's Competition Bureau plans investigation into Google Canada (Matt Hartley/Financial Post)
Matt Hartley / Financial Post:
Canada's Competition Bureau plans investigation into Google Canada — Canada's Competition Bureau is gearing up to launch a formal inquiry into the business practices of Google Inc.'s Canadian operations. — ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 11:16pm -07:00T (50 words)
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Techmeme: MacBook Air inventory begins dwindling ahead of Apple's WWDC (Neil Hughes/AppleInsider) Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
MacBook Air inventory begins dwindling ahead of Apple's WWDC — With Intel's next-generation Haswell processors set to launch in a matter of weeks and WWDC to kick off soon after, availability of Apple's 13-inch MacBook...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:46pm -07:00T (49 words)
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Techmeme: Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Each Quarter (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Each Quarter — Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:31pm -07:00T (57 words)
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Techmeme: Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr (AllThingsD)
AllThingsD:
Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr — According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion all-cash offer...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (47 words)
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