Baby shoe: It’s the difference between gutsy and stupid.

Many times in the world of tech, we forget that entrepreneurs exist in almost every field. When we cross the lines, sometimes we get to hear some interesting stories and gain some motivation for what it is that we do. Meet Gino. Not only is he an entrepreneur and a good friend of mine, he’s one of the more inspiring people I know.He’s a DJby the name Squake, running a production company and doing graphic design....

4 min · 671 words · Derrick Allen

Back Up Your Cloud Storage Locally with Joukuu

Joukuuis a Windows app that helps you manage the files you have backed up across multiple cloud storage accounts. Every cloud-based backup app has its own strong suits and we end up using a bunch of them. While one USP of cloud computing is redundant data storage, there are always those paranoid porcupines who want to have a local copy for safe keeping too. We might also need some files for quick access from the desktop too....

2 min · 417 words · Jennifer King

Background downloads come to Kindle for iOS

photo © 2010jfingas|more info(via:Wylio)If you’ve ever started the download of a book, flipped over to another to read while it finishes and then flipped back, you’ve been sorely disappointed. Until now, background downloads just didn’t work on theKindle appfor your iPad or iPhone. However, according toElectronista, the just-released 2.5 update to Kindle for iOS will allow you to finish (though not start) a download in the background while you enjoy other content....

1 min · 213 words · Michele Glover DVM

Background: how Twitter Counter acquired Twitaholic

So this morning weannouncedthatTwitter Counterhas acquiredTwitaholic. I’ll be the first to admit that this was not a multi-billion dollar acquisition but it was substantial enough for us as a young company to cause some sleepless nights. The complete PressDoc is here and you can getTechrunch’s storyon the acquisition here. I thought it would be more interesting to talk a bit about how we decided to spend our hard earned dollars on this and how we came to that decision....

4 min · 800 words · Daniel Lee

Backlash as beloved TowerBridge Twitter account is passed to ‘rightful’ owners

The 18th of May 2011 may have been a rather uneventful day for many people, but for followers of@TowerBridgeon Twitter, they may have noticed a slight deviation from the normal tweets they’d come to expect. It was on this day that this particular Twitter handle was claimed by its rightful trademark owners. You see, that particular Twitter handle had been owned – for several years – not byTower BridgeorThe City of London, but byTom Armitage“a twenty-something games designer and technologist....

3 min · 633 words · Richard Cox
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