Influence Archive
Archives for January 2015


Business Insider could be Germany-bound.


Developers are plowing money into ads that are supposed to get their apps on your phone. Tune helps them figure out which ads work.


Gates also reveals that he has two dogs, likes sauce on his BBQ and his big regret is not learning a foreign language.


Can you say tax free?


Tradesy’s product range covers $2700 Louis Vuitton purses and $50 Toms shoes.


And SpaceX is now worth $10 billion, thanks to Google and Fidelity.




Button hopes that as more people buy stuff on phones, apps will be able to tap new audiences through direct links with other apps.


This will be the year that companies start really learning from big data, Index partner Mike Volpi says.


The announcement comes as the bitcoin ecosystem faces turbulence amid a year-long slide in the value of the digital currency.


Planet Labs wants to take a daily picture of every angle of the earth at a resolution of five meters or less.


And Urbanspoon got bought for $50 million.


One problem: It would be a very big round, and Uber has tied up many of the potential investors.

