“Move fast with stable infra.” This was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s update on the old Silicon Valley bon mot “move fast and break stuff,” and perhaps the best single descriptor of how the company evaluates security and avoids the types of data breaches that are...
Angie’s List might have Monday, March 30, marked on its calendar…because that’s when Amazon.com officially becomes a direct competitor. When the eCommerce giant goes live with its on-demand services marketplace, Amazon Home Services, the launch will include a much larger number of categories than its...
Most people during their elementary school education learn that March is named for the Roman god of war: Mars. Far fewer people know why March was named this way. As it turns out, Romans had world-conquering season in much the way modern man has baseball...
Twitter has cut a deal with Foursquare to let users tag their tweets with much more specific location information, Twitter announced in a blog post on Monday (March 23). Users have long been able to add a general location label to tweets, such as “SoMa,...
With its latest $367 million of funding in the bag, the image-sharing startup Pinterest is now valued at $11 billion. This makes Pinterest one of the most highly valued startups in the world; as of this round, only five private, venture-backed companies in the world...
Facebook is continuing to expand and improve its efforts in the personalized shopping business. The social network said on Friday (March 13) that it has acquired TheFind.com, a shopping search engine that uses personalization, recommendations and ad search. Facebook launched its own personalized-ad business in...
Got an elevator pitch? MasterCard wants to hear it. The company will provide the elevator. The payments tech mainstay is partnering with Mashable for the Priceless Elevator Pitch promotion, which will be held at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, on March 13-15. Any...
Community powered digital retailer Joinem announced March 10 that it has raised $5 million in investment funds and has officially its public website. Joinem is a social media website that focuses on “collective buying,” where products are shared among the website’s users in an attempt to...
A new group payments app from a startup called Glassjar takes a more businesslike approach to the problem of friends who need to chip in to pay a bill: It literally sends them invoices, according to Tech in Asia. The Silicon Valley-based startup, which started...
