Cook: Apple Will 'Double Down' on Siri and Secrecy
Posted by PCWorld
At the D10 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company is doubling down on Siri, played coy about Apple’s approach to the gaming and television markets, and spoke emotionally about Jobs’ death[...]
Continue ReadingLockerz Acquires Fashion Community ‘Chick Approved’
Posted by TechCrunch
Social commerce startup Lockerz just announced that it has acquired online fashion community Chick Approved.
Lockerz allows its members to earn “PTZ” by sharing content and other activity on the site, which are then redeemed for discounts in the Lockerz store. Fashion, style, and beauty are the company’s fastest growing categories, says founder and CEO Kathy Savitt, and she describes this acquisition as a way to “really double down” in that area.
It sounds like Savitt is excited about getting access not just to Chick Approved’s audience (which she describes as “a really significant concentration of curatorial young women”), but also continuing[...]
Continue ReadingLockerz allows its members to earn “PTZ” by sharing content and other activity on the site, which are then redeemed for discounts in the Lockerz store. Fashion, style, and beauty are the company’s fastest growing categories, says founder and CEO Kathy Savitt, and she describes this acquisition as a way to “really double down” in that area.
It sounds like Savitt is excited about getting access not just to Chick Approved’s audience (which she describes as “a really significant concentration of curatorial young women”), but also continuing[...]
Peer To Peer Lending Crosses $1 Billion In Loans Issued
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Peer to peer (p2p) lending was always an idea with great potential. It is a simple concept. Match people who want to borrow money with people who want to invest money. Cut the banks out of the equation and everybody wins.Of course, it hasn’t been that simple. When the industry was just getting established the two leading players, Lending Club and Prosper, found themselves coming under the scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In 2008, while still in their infancy, both companies had to go through the expensive and time-consuming SEC registration process. Even though many people were writing the industry obituary at this point both Lending Club and Prosper survived.Today,[...]
Continue ReadingHomeland Security will track this article if I say electric pork cloud virus. Oops.
Posted by VentureBeat
The world now has access to a list of words and phrases that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security uses to monitor social networks and news article comments for terrorism and general threats against the country.
The list was part of a 39-page “2011 Analyst’s Desktop Binder” document that was released due to a Freedom of Information Act request by privacy watchdog organization Electronic Privacy Information Center. The list contains references to all the related governmental agencies, obvious references to threats (attack, nuclear threat, etc.) and then some pretty generic words like pork, cloud, electric, port, dock, and many others.
The overall report is interesting bec[...]
Continue ReadingThe list was part of a 39-page “2011 Analyst’s Desktop Binder” document that was released due to a Freedom of Information Act request by privacy watchdog organization Electronic Privacy Information Center. The list contains references to all the related governmental agencies, obvious references to threats (attack, nuclear threat, etc.) and then some pretty generic words like pork, cloud, electric, port, dock, and many others.
The overall report is interesting bec[...]
Idiot teenager’s gaffe proves we have no clue about Facebook privacy
Posted by VentureBeat
Today, an Australian teenage girl’s indiscreet Facebook post led to a break-in and robbery at her mother’s home.
The girl, 17, had been helping her grandmother count the 72-year-old woman’s personal savings. Apparently wishing to impress her friends and the world at large, the teen snapped a picture of the cash and uploaded it to Facebook.
Within hours, masked robbers showed up at the girl’s own house with a knife and a club, breaking in and stealing cash and personal possessions from the teen’s 47-year-old mother.
Local police issued a general warning to Facebook and other social network users that they shouldn’t be total nimrods about what they post and[...]
Continue ReadingThe girl, 17, had been helping her grandmother count the 72-year-old woman’s personal savings. Apparently wishing to impress her friends and the world at large, the teen snapped a picture of the cash and uploaded it to Facebook.
Within hours, masked robbers showed up at the girl’s own house with a knife and a club, breaking in and stealing cash and personal possessions from the teen’s 47-year-old mother.
Local police issued a general warning to Facebook and other social network users that they shouldn’t be total nimrods about what they post and[...]
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