Ari Levy
Covering finance then technology then finance then technology for Bloomberg since 2003.
Covering finance then technology then finance then technology for Bloomberg since 2003.
It’s an old adage that Kevin Lynch can surely appreciate now: If you can’t beat them, join them. Lynch, who is leaving Adobe to work at Apple, spent the past eight years at the software company, including the last five...
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings still hasn't recovered from a series of past mistakes that he attributed to "arrogance."
More than a year after triggering a cyber-revolt among his subscribers, Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings said he’s only halfway to redemption. “You might say we’re on probation at this point, so we’re out of jail,” Hastings said during...
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Spreecast's Jeff Fluhr expects to make money by providing audience data to producers.
In his quarter century of broadcast journalism, Scott Baker said he has used virtually every expensive and hard-to-use piece of audio, video and webcasting equipment on the market. So last year when he tested Spreecast, a website that lets users broadcast...
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Axel Toelke (left) and Ijad Madisch, the CEO and co-founder of Berlin startup ResearchGate.
Since opening its doors in 2008, ResearchGate has aimed to be the Facebook for scientists — a website for medical researchers to connect and share their findings. But following Facebook’s disastrous initial public offering last year, ResearchGate is spending 2013 trying...
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Brad Feld, the venture capitalist and author, is using BookShout to field questions about his latest book.
Venture capitalist Brad Feld has been advising entrepreneurs since around the time Jeff Bezos started selling paperbacks out of his garage. A longtime investor, board member and author, Feld recently found his new favorite way to communicate with his growing...
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AnchorFree's services are popular in countries such as Syria where governments may censor online content.
Silicon Valley startup AnchorFree makes computer-security software that has been downloaded more than 100 million times, often by people in China and the Middle East looking to circumvent Internet censorship. But as personal computing increasingly goes mobile, the company is...
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Moshi, formerly an Internet telephony company, has found a big business in selling accessories for devices such as the iPad.
Technology startups are notorious for making dramatic product changes, whether that means moving from hardware to software or from an ad-supported business to one based on subscriptions. In Silicon Valley, it’s called the pivot. But few companies have pivoted the...
Read more »For Zazzle, Cyber Monday was madness. Like many online retailers, the company spent the day processing many thousands of orders. But unlike most shopping sites, these orders were for customized items, such as T-shirts, skateboards and even pacifiers. The closely-held...
Read more »For all those reluctant holiday shoppers who hate long lines, Heddi Cundle has a suggestion: Give the gift of travel. Cundle is the founder and self-titled “big cheese” of myTab.co, a website she launched last year to help consumers, as...
Read more »Social media isn’t just for startups anymore. Fortune 500 companies need to join the movement, and quickly, or risk being left behind for good. That was the message not just from market analysts, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists at the Techonomy Conference,...
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