Redbox, the company behind those now-ubiquitous $1 movie rental kiosks, has finally announced its plans for Blu-ray rentals. The company is rolling out $1.50 Blu-ray rentals to 13,300 kiosks over the next few months, and it plans to offer them at all of its 26,000 kiosks across the US by fall.
Redbox’s initial Blu-ray titles include [...]
Carriers are often the gatekeepers when it comes to deploying new services to mobile networks and devices. They can bring scale businesses in the mobile community in a sudden and dramatic way. And they are where the money is — the collection point of monthly subscription revenue from customers. Carriers will take the stage at [...]
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[Update: Google said its machines may have overestimated blockage to its services and that users are accessing search normally in the country.]
Google says its web search is now fully blocked in China.
A public site where Google has been documenting daily access to all of its services showed that for the first time, web search is [...]
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Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham today offered an overview of how he has seen the angel and startup world evolve in the last year. Among other trends, he argued that the traditionally structured venture round is becoming irrelevant.
Speaking at AngelConf today, the angel investing event hosted at Y Combinator’s office in Mountain View, Calif., [...]
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Earlier today, a Google status page which publicly tracks access to its services in China, reported that there was full blockage, or that search was unavailable between 67 and 100 percent of the time. But now Google says access to its search properties is normal and hasn’t been blocked.
A spokesperson tells us:
“Because [...]
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When SeatGeek launched its ticket search service last fall, it had a compelling hook — users don’t just see tickets from reselling sites like StubHub, they also see SeatGeek’s predictions (based on things like the weather and the team’s record) about whether the price will go up or down. Now the New York City startup [...]
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The biofuel market is turning into a diverse romp of venture-backed companies auditioning different microbes, catalysts and feedstocks, all with the same goal: to quickly, efficiently and cheaply transform renewable, non-food products (ranging from sugar cane to switch grass to carbon dioxide) into viable forms of fuel that can work [...]
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Google today announced on its Mobile Ads blog that it has launched location-aware display advertisements for mobile phones. Through Google’s “location extension” feature, advertisers can now include their location and phone numbers to appear in display ads on iPhone and Android mobile websites.
The feature, previously available only on search ads, will appear as banner text [...]
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Be prepared to be scared about your cell phone privacy. Two security researchers showed today how they can track down cell phone numbers, identify the person who owns the phone, and then track the whereabouts of that person. And they can do it with technology available to ordinary civilians.
That last part is the shocking part. [...]
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Microsoft held a meeting for financial analysts today to present the company’s strategy for its consumer, enterprise and small and medium business markets. A clear theme ran throughout the presentations: Microsoft’s continued emphasis on the industry transformation taking place around cloud computing.
During the past year, Microsoft’s message focused on providing customers choice. It was [...]
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