Investing in a service that decodes hip-hop is, for the principals at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and Rap Genius cofounder Mahbod Moghadam, both an investment in a culture and a way to rethink the way we browse the whole web.
In just over three decades, “personal computing” has gone from towering desktops to mobile devices and an entire ecosystem of apps. So how did we get here? And what can that journey tell us about the future of mobile computing?
The Singapore-based startup is creating new markets for TV producers--and beating the pirates--by getting shows translated using Wikipedia-style crowdsourcing.
This is a big deal, as the firm's philosophy is to focus on only the 10 or 15 companies it thinks are going to matter in the long run. (See: Facebook, Airbnb, and Groupon, among others.)
The online shoe company cofounded by Kim Kardashian announces it's scrapping the monthly subscription model and adding lingerie and dress lines. The moves reveal its true secret sauce.
