Amazon said it will buy Audible, a digital audiobook publisher, for roughly $300 million.
Audible provides 80,000 products in audio form, ranging from books by famed authors Stephen King and Jane Austen, newspapers such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, magazines as well as TV and radio subscriptions. Audible has 160 employees [...]
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Micro-messaging site Twitter (Crunchies Award Winner for Best Mobile Start Up) has had a lot of issues with downtime in recent months. This is not only alienating users, it’s having rippling effects on the Internet community as a whole.
While the service had a scheduled downtime for maintenance last night, they overshot their window by several [...]
GreenRoad Technologies is a Redwood Shores, Calif. company that installs accelerometers in cars to sense when their drivers are behaving unsafely.
We covered the company last year during its launch in September, when it also moved from its homebase in Israel. Its competitors include DriveCam and SmartDrive, which both use more expensive technology based around video [...]
Widgetbox is another create-your-own widget company doing well for itself, although it’s often overshadowed by larger competitors like Clearspring. Widgetbox lets you create and embed a snippet of software code on other web pages, like this game widget called BurgerTime.
The San Francisco company claims strong growth on social network Bebo, and says it is being [...]