1 min read · 21 July 2009
3 min read · 20 July 2009
I'm sorry but I have to post this story of true love made possible through (venture-backed!) Facebook. I especially love that the piece, just reported online by the Miami NBC affiliate, a.) refers to the groom as "male Kelly" and the bride as "female Kelly" throughout and that b.) the wedding will be held at a yacht club in Lighthouse Point, Fla. -- "though male Kelly has no reservations." Kelly Hildebrandt is in love with Kelly Hildebrandt, and soon they'll be married. It's been a whirlwind romance for the guy and gal who share the same name, and it all started with an innocent Facebook message. "She started off 'Hey, I saw we have the same name,and I thought it was kind of cool, Just wanted to say hi I guess. LOL,'" the male Kelly said.
2 min read · 20 July 2009
1 min read · 17 July 2009
2 min read · 17 July 2009
2 min read · 17 July 2009
By now, pretty much everyone who cares about the startup Twitter knows that a French hacker managed to access both some of the company’s confidential and personal documents last month. We know because on Tuesday night, the individual, a Frenchman who uses the handle “Hacker Croll,” sent several hundred confidential Twitter documents and screenshots to TechCrunch, after French blogger Manuel Dorne, who claims he received the documents first, decided not to post anything other than a few screenshots. "I don't want to cause damage to Twitter or to help their rivals,” Dorne told the BBC yesterday.
3 min read · 16 July 2009
1 min read · 16 July 2009
1 min read · 15 July 2009
Israeli high-tech companies raised $279 million from VCs around the world in the second quarter, according to the Israel Venture Capital Research Center. That's a full 40% less than the $465 million that 115 startups raised in the second quarter of last year, but it's 5% more than the country’s startups attracted in the first quarter of 2009. The IVC also reports this morning that that despite the slight uptick in committed capital, Israeli venture firms themselves will also raise less this year than last - by a lot. In 2008, they secured $793 million in capital commitments. This year, the IVC predicts local firms will raise around $300 million.
1 min read · 15 July 2009
