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Intuit CEO Brad Smith speaks during a Bloomberg West TV interview in San Francisco last year.
(This blog post was updated to include more details about Intuit’s online banking software.) Intuit Chief Executive Officer Brad Smith likes to talk about his company’s need to keep pace with industry shifts, especially when it comes to acquisitions. That’s...
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Airbnb has been focused on redesigning its website and a new iPhone app that lets users create wish lists.
Airbnb has been focused on redesigning its website and a new iPhone app that lets users create wish lists. Airbnb, a website for renting rooms in people’s homes, sees an initial public offering in the wake of Facebook’s IPO...
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ThisLife has facial recognition technology that can be used on the photos you upload.
Andrea and Matt Johnson wanted a single Website to conveniently store and display all of the photos and videos of their three kids, along with notes on the crazy things they’ve uttered. However, they couldn’t find one that met their needs....
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Axio's Arye Barnehama, left, demonstrates his headband that measures the user's focus at an event held by the HAXLR8R incubator.
Arye Barnehama had an idea for a headband that could measure a person’s level of focus. So last year, he recruited people with the know-how to design software and arrange circuit boards to help build it. “We had a really great foundation...
Read more »Charles Schwab, the founder of the brokerage company that bears his name, is among a group of investors providing $25 million in funding to Pearl.com, a website where users pay to pose questions to professionals. Schwab is joined in the...
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Codecademy co-founder Zach Sims said the site is considering building a career-matching service.
Codecademy, a free website that has taught computer programming to 5 million users, also wants to find them jobs. The New York-based startup, which announced today it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Index Ventures, is...
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There's no shortage of athleticism on Ooyala's team, which includes (left to right) Sean Knapp, Bismarck Lepe, Jay Fulcher and Belsasar Lepe.
(Updated to correct amount raised by Ooyala in sixth paragraph.) If the migration of old media to the Internet is more of a marathon than a sprint, then the management team at Ooyala Inc. has the legs for it. Sean...
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ICANN Chief Executive Officer Rod Beckstrom speaks on expanding Web suffixes in London today.
If the list of possible new Web suffixes is any indication of the Internet’s future, we may see a lot more apps, blogs and ninjas. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers released the list of 1,930 applications for...
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Indonesian staff wear 'Angry Birds' masks to promote the Angry Birds official Facebook launch at a mall in Jakarta in February.
Felicis Ventures, the “super angel” fund founded by early-Google employee Aydin Senkut, has closed a $70 million round of funding that will be used to invest in technology startups including those in the mobile, health and education industries. In the...
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Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, speaks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco in October 2011.
LendingClub, the peer-to-peer Internet lender, has landed another Morgan Stanley heavyweight as part of its push to go from niche to mainstream. The company said today that Mary Meeker, the former Morgan Stanley technology analyst turned venture capitalist, is...
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