The sunlight of summer has begun it’s annual transition to equinox, and we are all reviving the pulse of the work-year.
The President has returned from Martha’s Vineyard to face what will surely be a challenging fall. It’s mid-term election season and the mood of the voting public is downright ornery.
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Apple’s iPod line got refreshed today, with significant new upgrades to the flagship iPod touch and iPod nano.
While the iPod touch — basically an iPhone without a wireless contract, as Steve Jobs said today — is still a growth driver for Apple, the iPod business as a whole has pretty much stopped growing.
There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts).
Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. Prominent investors including Mark Suster and Seth Levine weighed in (I highly recommend reading their posts).
I Just read on Daring Fireball that the judge has denied TechCrunch’s claim for preliminary injunction against their former tablet partners and makers of JooJoo, Fusion Garage.
Gruber claims that “Mike Arrington gets smacked around in the first round of his lawsuit over the JooJoo/CrunchPad. In short: TechCrunch didn’t get much in writing regarding their “partnership” with Fusion Garage to develop the product, and, well, they should have.”
Get ready to see fake Mark Zuckerberg everywhere: “The Social Network” ad campaign is rolling out, even in the only somewhat nerdy NYC subway system. We spotted this on the way to work this morning…
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Kami Ragsdale, a senior finance executive at AOL reporting to CFO Artie Minson, is leaving to join ad-strategy firm Invision, an industry source says.
Described as a “rock star” by our source, Kami is the second long-time AOL executive whose departure became news today. The first was Marty Moe, AOL’s chief content executive, who is said to have had strategic disagreements with AOL’s new management team.
A revamped Apple TV is coming in September, and it’s going to “change everything,” says Digg CEO, and generally plugged-in dude, Kevin Rose on his blog.
The new Facebook Places logo is a four in a square, Alexia Tsotsis points out.
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