Archive for March 5, 2013
It's been a few years since Birchbox launched, and it's had to differentiate itself as other competitors have emerged. The company, which has $11.9 million in funding to date, started out as a subscription-based cosmetics company, but it's evolved int... Read the rest of this entry »
Roku announced today its third-generation set-top box, the Roku 3. Not much has changed with the Roku on the outside, but it does have a faster processor and more memory on the inside, so users will notice snappier performance when switching betw... Read the rest of this entry »
It was the news "Evil Dead" fans have been wanting to hear for years: In a recent interview promoting his upcoming Disney fantasy "Oz the Great and Powerful," director Sam Raimi mentioned that he and his brother Ivan were planning t... Read the rest of this entry »
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Frankly, this isn't going to get people all that jazzed, but Apple's next desktop operating system is probably close to release. MG Siegler notes that a look at the Google Analytics for "Intel 10.9" on TechCrunch and his own site show increased activit... Read the rest of this entry »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Blue-chip venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers expressed frustration with poor fund performance and promised to do better at gatherings for investors last month, according to people familiar with the discu... Read the rest of this entry »
Surprising no one (the last movie pulled in north of $200 million worldwide), a Shock Till You Drop report is claiming that the release date for the sixth "Resident Evil" film has been set by Sony for 2014, wrapping up director Paul W. S. And... Read the rest of this entry »
Samsung is sticking with plastic for the Galaxy S4 at a time when all of its rivals are shifting to higher quality materials for their phones. Why? Y.H. Lee, Samsung's executive vice president of the mobile business, tells CNET that it's because it's l... Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook has not gotten its fake account problem under control — yet — but it appears to be making progress.In its annual report, Facebook said that the number of duplicate accounts on its network had risen to 5 percent of all accounts... Read the rest of this entry »
Business Insider’s Social Media ROI conference is taking place May 15, 2013, in New York City — and we need your help! We’re doing a special session: “Brand Leaders Sound Off,” where McDonald’s Social Media Mar... Read the rest of this entry »