Bidding is now opened for a what is described as having "Coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, at Google in New York City." "Sit down to coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, for 30 minutes at Google in New York City." Bidding is underway at CharityBuzz.com, where there are currently 4 bidders with a high bid of $8,000. There are 15 days left in the … [Read more...]
House Passes Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act
Grant Gross wrote a piece on PC World about the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act. There has been a ban on Internet access taxes for several years in most states. The ban has been extended three times. As I said some states had these taxes and there was a grandfather clause which allowed states like Texas to take in $350 million per year. From the article: The House, in a voice vote Tuesday, … [Read more...]
Secret.ly Bought For $3,500 On Sedo 9 Months Ago Raises $25 Million At $100M Valuation
It was just back in March that the New York Times chatted about, what was at that time, a 5 week old app called Secret which uses the domain name Secret.ly Today the company announced it has raised an additional $25 Million dollars, on top of the $8.6 million the company announced it raised in March from a number of well-known investors, including Alexis … [Read more...]
Linton’s Fashion Metric Selected As 1 of 11 Out of 1,500 For Techstars Austin
Morgan and Daina Linton's FashionMetric.com, which uses big data to enhance fit and sizing for men’s clothing is one of 11 startups selected for the latest class of Techstars Austin. FashionMetric was founded in 2012 by Morgan and Daina and world famous entrepreneur Mark Cuban owns part of the company. The news was reported by Xconomy.com Techstars says that more than 1,500 startups … [Read more...]
Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018
Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world's population), up from 2.5 billion in 2013 By 2018, there will be 21 billion networked devices and connections globally, up from 12 billion in … [Read more...]
Directi Rolls out Ringo.co
Directi has rolled out a new service called Ringo described as a new international calling app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone device. Ringo is an international calling app that uses a unique call flow to provide best-in-class call quality at costs lower than other popular calling apps. Ringo calls do not use the Internet, wifi or data and are instead use regular phone lines. Ringo is unlike … [Read more...]
After Spending $5 Million For its Brand, JD.com $1.9 Billion IPO Hits Wall Street This Week
JD.com is going public this week as it IPO hits Wall Street. It was just a year ago in March 2013 that we told you, China’s” leading direct B2C e-commerce company”, Jingdong , who was operating as 360buy.com, purchased re-branded as JD.com. In February we found out the company may have paid as much as $5 Million for JD.com. The company is trying to sell $1.9 Billion dollars … [Read more...]