Box Finally Ready To Hit Go On IPO

BoxWorks conference flags on light pole. Box filed its S-1 indicating it was ready to go public on March 24th last year. More than 9 months later, Box has at long last announced its share pricing, signalling the road show to Wall Street is ready to start — finally. But the 9-month waiting period was really only part of the story. Box is the quintessential start-up story, conceived in a dorm room by childhood friends, Aaron… Read More

Fitbit CEO James Park Talks About Wearables And The Apple Watch

fitbit-v-apple Fitbit recently announced a new smart devices, the Surge and the Charge and took to CES to show just how cool they were. I got the chance to sit down with CEO James Park to talk wearables, heart rate monitors, and his expectations for the Apple Watch.
See, Fitbit isn’t afraid and I’m not sure they should be. While a true popular wearable will cut into some fashion and tech watch… Read More

MongoDB Is Raising Another $100 Million, Regulatory Filing Shows

mongoDB MongoDB, the company known for its next-generation open source database technology, is apparently looking to raise up to $100 million in new funding, according to a regulatory document filed with the SEC this week. The filing, which was signed by MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria, says that MongoDB has closed on $79.9 million so far in an equity offering worth a total of $100 million. That means there… Read More

Gillmor Gang LIVE

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern.
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People, The Original Selfie Stick

Screen Shot 2015-01-09 at 12.24.03 PM If you’re like me, you’ve been sitting here, counting the hours until CES is over so you can get back to non-CES business next Monday (T minus five hours). Beyond CES, it’s been for all intents and purposes a harrowing, tragic week for the news business (Je suis Charlie). Awkward CES selfie stick images like the one above are a particularly small hairball in this… Read More

PicoBrew Automates Home Beer Brewing (And It’s A Great Excuse For CES Day Drinking)

PicoBrew If you’re a fan of craft beer, you might be tempted to try homebrewing — if only it wasn’t (to quote my colleague Ryan Lawler) “a pain in the ass.” Startup PicoBew has built a machine called Zymatic that should make the process a lot easier, automating the brewing process and making it more consistent. PicoBrew’s Greg White even pitched it (half-jokingly,… Read More

Smartphone Makers Need To Put An End To Distracted Driving

texting and driving I’m cruising down the road at 45 mph when – ka-ching! – the sound of a cash register blares out from my iPhone. It’s one of now several deal-finding apps I have installed that alert me to nearby sales at local stores. I love the functionality they provide, but I’m not thrilled with the timing. The phone buzzes some more as the alerts roll in as I coast past the… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg Will Hold His First International Q&A From Bogotá, Colombia January 14th

15901_10101814623945861_3907663345078646688_n International users will get their questions about Facebook answered while CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Colombia’s capital Bogotá on Tuesday, January 14th. The executive is in South America for meeting around Internet.org, Facebook’s partnership with telecoms to make the Internet accessible to everyone. After tackling decreases in organic Page reach, the Messenger migration, and why… Read More

PYOD Lets Your Print Your Own D

happy-kitten-kittens-5890512-1600-1200 Ahem. We begin this post by noting that the forthcoming material relates to human sexuality and should be construed as NSFW if you work at a retirement home for men or women of the cloth. The rest of y’all, hop on in! So PYOD is a product that aims to allow you to print your own dildo. The service wants to become your one stop shop for custom dildonics in that you can design the contour… Read More

Pew: Facebook User Growth Slowed As Others Gained, But Still Has Most Engaged Users

facebook-whatsapp-screen Facebook is still the most popular social network, but its growth has slowed in the U.S., according to a new report out this morning from the Pew Research Center. Meanwhile, more Americans are now using multiple social media sites, allowing platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn to all achieve significant increases in user numbers over the past year, the… Read More

Box’s Conservative IPO Pricing Is Not Surprising

aaron levie Today Box priced its IPO with a proposed range of $11 to $13 per share. Box intends to sell 12.5 million shares in its offering. Its road show comes after a long delay in the company’s offering, during which it raised an additional $150 million of capital.
According to the current filing, its maximum aggregate sale is $186.9 million. Box originally filed to raise as much as $250… Read More

“Native Commerce” Platform Okanjo Raises $1.7 Million

okanjo A Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based startup called Okanjo, which offers publishers an alternative to native advertising with what it calls “native commerce,” has raised $1.7 million in new funding in a follow-on round from local angel investors, bringing the company’s total raise to date to $3.2 million. The additional funding will be used in part to launch Okanjo’s product,… Read More

Google Calendar’s Enforced Birthdays Show The Ugly Side Of Algorithms

google You may recall that Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information”. So if you’ve been seeing the Birthdays of people you hardly know appearing UFO-like in your Google Calendar lately, never fear — this is just Mountain View doing its thang organizing your stuff. Read More