You've created your dream company. It's humming along. Then someone offers you $100 million for it. Could you turn it down? What about $1 billion? These entrepreneurs did.READ»
Bill Nguyen launches startups with haste, never researches the competition, and makes the same mistakes "again and again."
So why do people keep giving him so much money?READ»
Bill Nguyen recently told Fast Company "Facebook is broken." So why is he planning to re-introduce Color, his flop of a $41 million app, in conjunction with Facebook and its f8 developers conference? Nguyen explains. READ»
While seven-figure domain names might make sense for established web companies and online services, in the app space, there's a sense an expensive domain dot-com isn't as important. READ»
Color, the $41-million app designed to share photos with those in your immediate proximity, struck out its first time at bat. MyStream works much the same way, but lets you eavesdrop on friends and strangers' songs instead of pictures. Founder Richard Zelson on why sharing sound is more appealing.READ»
These days, it takes nearly a half-dozen apps to keep up with all our fragmented social networks. But a new app out today called Banjo aims to solve those disconnections by integrating all your social networks into one streamlined service.READ»
On this day in history Charles Goodyear received a patent for the vulcanization of rubber, and Mister Spock received a patent for the rubberization of ears ... well, we kid. But for genuine reports on what's in today's news read on:READ»
Popular check-in service Foursquare announced that it will add easy photo-sharing between friends, all tagged to check-ins. This service addresses the relevancy issues that crop up with Color, which shows you photos from random strangers all around you. READ»
"The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical." And one of those plans could be to catch up on the early news with iFive, to jump-start your morning.READ»
If new discoveries in the OS code prove true, Apple could be planning some clever, instant social media sharing skills for the iPhone's photo app. Could this have beaten Instagram and Color to the punch? READ»
Everyone on the web (read: that tiny subclass of "everyone" that gets paid to care about social networking apps) was shooting their mouth off last week about the latest'n'greatest app on the block, a $41-million funded doohickey ...READ»
Bill Nguyen, serial entrepreneur and founder of real-time photo-sharing app Color, says he plans to outmaneuver Groupon much in the same way Google bested Yahoo. READ»
Bill Nguyen is shamelessly confident about his latest product Color, a real-time photo-sharing app that launches today on the iPhone and Android. And so are investors, who have already sunk $41 million dollars into the service even before it's seen the light of day. READ»
The worst thing about bandages is taking them off: It hurts like hell, and half the time you just have to put the damn thing back on because the owie underneath hasn't finished healing yet. Repeatedly removing and reapplying bandages ...READ»
E-Ink's CEO said that the company will be releasing both color and touchscreen e-ink displays for e-book readers within a year. It's too bad nobody will want one.READ»
Amazon and Apple have shaken up the e-reader and tablet PC markets. Meanwhile newcomer Copia is intent on playing in both of these games, and Sony's determined, in its own way, not to play at all.READ»
The e-reader may only have a short time in the limelight, as tablet PCs get better. This notion is given an extra kick by the devices ever-dropping prices--including the Amazon Kindle.READ»
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