Barnes & Noble Planning International Expansion
Want to be the head of Barnesandnoble.com’s international business? Because they’re definitely hiring a whole team, and they’re starting at the top. [...more]
Want to be the head of Barnesandnoble.com’s international business? Because they’re definitely hiring a whole team, and they’re starting at the top. [...more]
European startup Cloudmade , which offers data and tools to developers and OEMs for mapping and navigation applications, isn’t the only company to get hit hard by Google’s new disruptive Navigation product . But they aren’t reeling out of control either. Cloudmade CEO Juha Christensen sent us an email that he distributed to partners yesterday. [...more]
The Le Web conference in Paris always has a surprise or two for attendees. Last year, author Paulo Coelho spoke about how he uses social networking to spread word about his books, and how he encourages people to download pirated copies of his work. This year, Her Majesty Rania Al Abdullah , Queen of Jordan, will be on stage [...more]
Zynga founder Mark Pincus is the final speaker at Y Combinator Startup School 2009. My notes on his talk are below [...more]
Social gaming companies like Zynga and Playdom have proven that casual/social gaming can be an extremely lucrative business. But their success can’t be solely attributed to the quality of their games — they’re also finely tuned to maximize their virality. Users are often asked to invite their friends to join them, or publish stories to their accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and other services [...more]
Foursquare is a company with all of four employees. Yes, they just hired their fourth, we’ve learned (hello, Nathan Folkman , formerly of Betaworks , where he worked on Bit.ly ) [...more]
It’s been quite a while since we last covered Triggit , a startup that made it easy to integrate ads into websites using drag and drop Javascript. As it turns out, it’s for good reason: the company has spent the last year in stealth reworking its core product and adopting an entirely new business model, which it’s now unveiling to the public. [...more]
Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications , is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch). But Google Wave already has a few secrets [...more]
Editor’s note : This guest post was written by Paul Sloan, a journalist who’s worked for Business 2.0, Fortune, NPR, and CNN. [...more]
If you’re Palm you’re hoping that Pre owners love their phones so much that they cherish and protect them for always. So when a guy who owns a Palm Pre drops it in his beer just to see what happens, you can’t be too happy. It just doesn’t say a whole lot about how much a person values a phone when they drop it into a mug of beer [...more]