Tag Archives : San Francisco

Spotify will be deeply integrated into Facebook, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced at the f8 developer conference today. As part of its larger entertainment initiative, Facebook will launch a music [...]

The popular Facebook f8 conference is ongoing in San Francisco. Facebook is unveiling huge changes and features to your Facebook profile. Zuckerberg has just announced a brand new feature at [...]

GigaOM, a business and technology media company, today announced the 10 winners of the GigaOM Mobilize 2011 Launchpad, a high-profile competition that recognizes the 10 most promising mobile startups. The [...]

San Francisco-based venture capital investor Industry Ventures closed on Industry Ventures Fund VI, a $400M secondary fund. Symantec Corp. announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Clearwell Systems. [...]

Rocket Health is a seed accelerator exclusively for health startups providing capital, mentorship, operational support and office space in San Francisco. The program’s mission is to enable and empower an [...]

Founder Institute - San Diego, Brussells, Berlin, DC, NY, Houston, Paris, Boston, Bay Area – founderinstitute.com (this is a paid course) Y Combinator – San Francisco, CA – Ycombinator.com AngelPad – [...]

Airbnb a short term rentals company is a classic Silicon Valley story of bootstrapping, rejection and eventually success. Brian Chesky and his co-founder, Joe Gebbia, decided to start a company, [...]

Foursquare just raised $50 Million at a post money valuation of $600 Million. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. The CEO Dennis Crowley in a blog post said “Today, we’re really [...]

General Electric Co., the world’s largest maker of power-generation equipment, has awarded $63 million to 10 closely held companies developing solar and renewable energy technologies. GE is spending about $10 [...]

Planetary, launched in early May, generated a lot of buzz among app developers and music fans. Developed by San Francisco firm Bloom Studio, it turns users’ music collection into a [...]

Brian Chesky is co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. His primary responsibility is driving the company vision and assembling a passionate team to realize that vision. # Airbnb is a community [...]

Robin Vessey started a software development / venture development company 14 years ago. His personal role started out as software designer / developer and now is he is a CEO. [...]

Mixpanel provides an analytics platform companies can use to understand how users behave. The platform tracks how users interact with websites, social games, and applications in real-time. While other analytics [...]

GrowLab is a joint venture between entrepreneurs and angel investors in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as in Silicon Valley — that has signed up some high-profile financial backers including [...]

Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer. Dropbox is a [...]