NYT Duck Duck Go: Silly Name, Interesting Search Engine The search engine market is obviously dominated by a small number of big players, but that doesn't mean that small companies with interesting ideas can't still get at least a small slice of this market. One of these services is Duck Duck Go, which has a rather silly name, but turns out to be a pretty interesting search engine. Duck Duck Go aims… Frederic Lardinois View comments
News Disney Comes to Hulu This morning, Hulu and Disney announced that Disney will join NBC Universal, News Corp., and Providence Equity Partners as a joint venture partner and equity holder of Hulu. Thanks to this, Hulu will now be able to feature shows from ABC's prime-time lineup like "Lost," "Grey's Anatomy," and "Private Practice," as well as shows from ABC Daytime and… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Apple Papa Johns Says iPhone App is a Dud - Maybe They Should Try Launching a Real One At the OMMA Mobile conference on Wednesday, Jim McDonnell, marketing manager, emerging channels for Papa John's International, shared some bad news about the potential for mobile applications associated with a business. In short, he basically called the Papa John's iPhone app a dud, saying that the company hasn't "seen anything that really delivers… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
mobile The Future of Advertising is Shakable and Location-Based Last month, you may remember having heard about a special iPhone ad from Dockers. Its claim to fame was that it was the world's first "shakable" ad. Called "Shakedown to Get Down," the ad prompted users to shake the phone in order to set the on-screen freestyle dancer into motion. The dancer, of course, wore Dockers. It was certainly a clever… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
A-team What Do VCs Say and Do in Early-Stage Today? In the last two months, we have interviewed six VCs. In each case, we asked the same question: "How is early-stage financing doing during this downturn compared to the last one in 2001/2002?" In this post, we consolidate all the responses, to see if a consensus among VCs emerged. But we also dig a bit deeper. We have been tracking Series A… Bernard Lunn View comments