In a rather surprising move considering Verizon's lack of compelling handsets, the nation's biggest wireless carrier has decided it's going to pass on the Palm Pre , if reports are to be believed. This is a serious blow to Palm's aspirations, and their stock took a 5% hit as if to rubber-stamp it. Although the team here is divided over Palm's new efforts (and advertising strategy ), I think we were all secretly rooting for Palm just a bit. [...more]
SkyGrid is slowly expanding its real-time financial news empire. The powerful business news aggregator, recently struck a deal with StockTwits, a popular site that lets you track real-time discussions about stock information on Twitter, to feature a live feed of real-time news. [...more]
Animoto , the startup that lets you automatically build custom music videos starring your own media, just got even more awesome. Tonight the site is launching support for video, which means you’ll be able to generate customized music videos featuring your home movies, along with photos and music, with almost no effort required. We first previewed the new feature last month, and now the company is opening it to everyone [...more]
At best people consider myYearbook an afterthought in the social networking world - they weren’t even included in our 2009 Social Network valuation model because of a lack of available traffic data. And yet…the company has managed to achieve profitability, a goal some of its huge competitors are still struggling to reach. CEO Geoff Cook told me today that the company is generating over $1 million/month in revenue, and became profitable in Q1 2009 (they’ve been ebitda profitable since last year) [...more]
![MyTouch 3G Rooted, Ready For Your Custom ROMs [Android]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/60437cce2ctouch1.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
It was only a matter of time before this happened, but the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G has been rooted, i.e. cracked wide open , meaning that it's ready for all kinds of customization that the stock Android installation keeps out of reach, including cooked ROMs . In real terms, this means you'll be able to port the Hero's fantastic Sense UI to your MyTouch, as people have been doing on the G1 and the virtually identical HTC Magic for months [...more]
![Digidudes Are Keychains with Built-In Camera Tripods [Tripods]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/ae459c35f8inz-02.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
These Digidudes keychains aren't just cute little robots/monsters. They also open up into tiny tripods, letting you set up your camera anywhere. Sure, $20 is pretty steep for a keychain, but if you want to be able to pop your camera down easily anywhere without carrying an extra tripod around, this looks like a pretty great solution. [...more]
Hot European music startup Spotify is back in the news today. On August 4 we broke the news that the big music labels have secretly been shareholders in the company since 2008, and that they paid roughly the same price for their preferred stock as venture capital investors Northzone Ventures and Creandum paid last year. Now, though, Swedish news site ComputerSweden is reporting that those music labels actually got their stock for free [...more]
Anyone wondering who got the better deal today (my detailed thoughts later) need only look at the stock movements of Yahoo and Microsoft . Yahoo dipped 12.08% to $15.14, knocking $2.91 billion off their market cap [...more]
![It’s a Woot! Off, Everyone [Dealzmodo]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/images/no-img-thumb.jpg)
Everyone's favorite witty, one-product-per-day often-electronics online warehouse reseller, Woot!, is doing one of those fun Woot! Offs where they sell the remainders of all their stock at once. Let us know what you've snagged! [ Woot! ] [...more]
What's up, Gateway? You think you're too good for the Atom [...more]
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