» The Flickr Bogan-Martin Award For “Media Overreaction”
2 hours ago by TechCrunch from Michael Arrington
One thing you can say about the Flickr team - there's some fight in 'em. They apparently were not super pleased with our coverage of their annual (and unofficial) Grant-Pattishall Award given each year to the Yahoo engineer who “who breaks Flickr in the most spectacular way.” I'm not sure why, I think the award is fun. So now they have a new award, called the Bogan-Martin Award: The Bogan-Ma ...

» Health Market Science gets $6M in venture capital
3 hours ago by Venture Capital News
Health Market Science, a King of Prussia, Pa., provider of data and analytics to the health-care industry, has received a $6.1 million, venture-capital investment, Edison Venture Fund said Thursday.

» Push-notification platform Xtify picks up $2.8M, ramps up development
3 hours ago by VentureBeat from JP Manninen
Working in the mobile advertising business, New York City-based Xtify has been building its platform for brands and other app developers, allowing for geo-targeted notifications — most often, ads — that are pushed to consumers when they are within a predefined area, say a one-mile radius from a department store. The company has announced it has raised $2.8 million in a first round of i ...

» Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut? [Video]
7 hours ago by TechCrunch from Evelyn Rusli
With more than 200 deals since 2005, Y Combinator's Paul Graham knows how to size up a young team of entrepreneurs. However, he didn't get it right from day one. On Friday, we got a chance to talk to Graham after his morning panel with SV Angel's Ron Conway. He discussed how his strategy has evolved over the past five years and why the balance of power is shifting in Silicon Valley. See videos a ...

» Are Most VCs Dinosaurs Who Need to Hurry Up and Die?
7 hours ago by Venture Capital News
The latest salvo in the ongoing debate over the health of the technology venture capital industry comes from investor and startup advisor Dave McClure in a blog post entitled Moneyball For Startups. One of the big questions that continue to spark heated discussion is whether angel or super-angel funds and investors are inherently better than ...

» Defcon contest shows corporate workers can be tricked into revealing company secrets
8 hours ago by VentureBeat from Dean Takahashi
Social engineering is the (morally vague) art of tricking someone out of their company’s technical secrets just by talking to them. It often involves deceit and relies on the fact that the weakest link in any computer security system is a human. At Defcon, one of the Capture the Flag contests performed by the attendees involved launching social engineering “attacks,” where conte ...

» Chamillionaire Just Wants Your Business Card
8 hours ago by TechCrunch from Alexia Tsotsis
Grammy award winning artist Chamillionaire (a.k.a Hakeem Seriki) has become a regular at tech conferences, perhaps because the hustle and flow culture of the rap business and the hustle and flow culture of the tech business are surprisingly similar. His stories of struggles between artists and music labels are resonant to anyone who's experienced the relationship intricacies of startups and VCs.

» Security researcher explains how he hacked ATMs (videos)
9 hours ago by VentureBeat from Dean Takahashi
Barnaby Jack, a security researcher showed how to hack two different automated teller machines in front of a crowd of hackers and security professionals this week at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. On stage, he hacked two different Windows CE-based ATMs on stage. Afterward, he spoke with the press. Here’s two videos where he responds to the press’s questions. During the ...

» Half Of All Facebook Users Play Social Games — It’s 40% Of Total Usage Time
10 hours ago by TechCrunch from MG Siegler
Perhaps you've heard: social games maker Playdom was acquired by Disney a few days ago for a deal potentially worth north of $750 million. Playdom CEO John Pleasants took the stage today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, to talk a bit about the deal and the future. Pleasants says that he's not exactly sure what his title at Disney will be yet, but he thinks he'll be the General Manage ...

» Soladigm Smart Window Maker Emerges From Stealth, Announces Plan To Build Plant In Mississippi
10 hours ago by TechCrunch from Matylda Czarnecka
Smart window startup Soladigm announced today its plans to build a factory in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The Khosla Ventures and Sigma Partners backed company makes dynamic glass windows that can be tinted on demand to block excess light and heat. Founded in 2007, Soladigm has been operating in stealth until now. The company employs about 50 people in its Milpitas, California headquarters, and pl ...

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