On Saturday afternoon a group of 30 pint size wannabe hackers gathered at the GitHub offices in San Francisco for the first CoderDojo in the United States. Irish teen sensation, James Whelton had traveled to San Francisco to take his highly successful social hacking education platform to the United States. CoderDojo began in Whelton’s final year of high … read more here
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Facebook’s mobile ad strategy is a risk for Facebook and its advertisers (analysis)
February 29, 2012 by
Facebook’s mobile ads, announced today, are an attempt to patch one of the biggest holes in the company’s revenue model. Until today, the company didn’t have any way to make money from its mobile apps due to the lack of ads. Compounding the problem is the fact that consumers really don’t like it when ads … read more here
The Winners Of This Year’s $100,000 TechFellow Awards include Rdio, GitHub & Wildfire Interactive
February 22, 2012 by
Tonight, Silicon Valley’s heroes gave competition a rest and joined together at the third annual TechFellow Awards to celebrate the spirit of innovation. An all-star committee of industry moguls carefully considered your nominations of visionaries in the fields of engineering, product design and marketing, general management, and disruptive innovation. They chose 5 leaders per category and awarded them each a … read more here
Hot On The Heels Of Spotify, Rdio Expands Music Streaming To Spain, Portugal
February 22, 2012 by
The landgrab for music streaming customers is on, and Rdio — the U.S.-based startup from Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis — is joining that race in earnest. The company today announced that it is now live in Spain and Portugal, just one month after it launched its first European service, in Germany. The total … read more here
Rdio Extends Global Reach
February 22, 2012 by
Online music steaming site Rdio is now available in Spain and Portugal. The race for online music dominance just got tighter. Just one month after launching its European service in Germany, Rdio is now live in Spain and Portugal, TechCrunch reports. Rdio—launched by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis—is now available in eight countries; the … read more here
Ben Holmes sits atop the Power Top 50
February 22, 2012 by
Ben Holmes of Index Ventures has moved up three places to the top of the tree inBusiness XL’s annual Power Top 50 list of influential entrepreneurs and investors. The past year has seen Holmes and Index Ventures achieve an exit for portfolio company Betfair and close a £200 million sale of LOVEFiLM to Amazon. In topping the … read more here
