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Just-Eat Founder Launches Platform For Virtual Therapists And Life Coaches
Sep 8th
Jesper Buch who co-founded Just-Eat, the European company that took fast food online, has launched his latest venture: Mentaline, a platform for therapists, life coaches and psychologists to deliver services to clients.
Ambitiously, it’s not a marketplace in which sessions eventually take place offline but instead the whole thing operates on the More >
Forget Netbooks, iPad Cannibalizing Entire PC Industry
Sep 8th
Apple’s (AAPL) iPad may not be cannibalizing Mac sales, but it’s evidently having a deleterious effect on the PC market — and not just its netbook segment alone. According to UBS analyst Maynard Um, the iPad is having a negative impact on the PC industry entire.
“Sales of traditional notebooks appear More >
The Future of Social Objects
Sep 8th
The Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, has been slow to attract the attention of budding entrepreneurs. However, there has been some startup action in so-called “social objects.” We’ve covered two companies in this domain in recent times, StickyBits and TalesOfThings. The New York Times More >
Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets
Sep 7th
Research In Motion has indeed acquired software developer DataViz–well, most of it anyway.
Confirming an earlier report at CrackBerry.com, RIM (RIMM) said it had snapped up the developer of Documents To Go–one of Apple’s best selling apps of 2009–along with much of the talent that developed it. “RIM has acquired More >
What the VMworld Labs Demonstrated About the Cloud
Sep 7th
VMworld set up a lab this year that ran a hybrid cloud.
The VMware team set up a data center at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco that connected to public clouds provided by Terremark in Miami and Verizon in Ashburn, Va.
The hybrid cloud was redundant so if it went down, the load could More >
As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
Sep 7th
Ever since Digg launched its new site design, it’s been plagued with all kinds of trouble, not least of which is that it keeps going down. The problems with the new architecture are so bad that VP of Engineering John Quinn is now gone, we’ve confirmed with sources close to Digg.
In a Diggnation video More >
HP Sues Former CEO Over Oracle Gig
Sep 7th
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is suing former CEO Mark Hurd for violating his non-compete agreement by signing on to become co-president of Oracle (ORCL) [ Details to follow]
Detailed Ads for Traffic Jams: RIM Patents “Adaptive” Billboards
Sep 7th
RIM, the company behind Blackberry smartphones, is getting into the smart billboard business, according to two patent applications it filed recently. But what would a smartphone maker and roadside advertising have in common? It could be a new way to serve up “adaptive” advertising according to data gathered from nearby Blackberry users.
According More >
Yahoo Engineers Talk Of Outsourcing To Bangalore; Yahoo PR Disagrees
Sep 7th
This has been one of the more interesting stories to track down. We got word over the weekend that Yahoo is in the process of moving large numbers of engineering jobs within the YOS group to Bangalore. Yahoo PR mostly denies this.
This includes YDN (Yahoo Developer Network, the platform for third party More >