Like the rest of the big box retailers, Best Buy is gearing up for Black Friday, or as we like to call it around the Techfaster office, Black Thursday. Best Buy stores will open up at 8pm local time in all of their cities and have door busters planned accordingly. In fact the craziest of [...]
Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal ran an expose on Jim Vidmar a man who makes a living by helping people boost their social status on Twitter. Vidmar, who's based in Las Vegas, buys fake Twitter accounts in bulk and then uses those accounts to follow, tweet and retweet at his clients. When the [...]
If indeed Facebook is losing their hold on the teen demographic, it is not reflected in the companies' third quarter 2013 earnings report. If, indeed they are leaving, it seems as though the exodus is making Facebook more profitable.
On Friday many people's faith in humanity here in the United States was restored. It was all centered around Miles Scott a five year old who was diagnosed with Leukemia when he was one. He is now in remission. Because of his illness young Miles was eligible to participate in the Make A Wish Foundation. [...]
Just last week we reported that Facebook was opening up a satellite engineering office at the Cambridge Innovation Center building in Kendall Square. The Cambridge Innovation Center serves as part incubator, part co-working space, part educational space, part startup space and part accelerator. Twitter has now also taken up residency at a similar space in [...]
I gave up the good ole #FF on Twitter a few years ago but that doesn't mean we still can't have Follow Friday. Check out this great list of 10 techies to follow on Twitter for our first TechFaster Follow Friday: Myriam Joirie (@TnkGirl) Many of you know Myriam or Tank Girl from her Engadget [...]
Over the weekend a story started surfacing about an Instagram account that was exposing witnesses in criminal cases in Philadelphia. The account called "rats215" exposed affidavits and photos of victims and complainants in criminal cases. "There was a lot of information there ... a lot of information that was not for public viewing," Philadelphia Police [...]
He brought Sexy Back, he invested to bring the Memphis Grizzlies back and then he thought he could bring MySpace back. By all accounts, pop megastar, actor and entrepreneur Justin Timberlake's investment into the failing social network MySpace, seems to be doing well. They've reported record growth that the company hadn't seen since the pre-Fox [...]
Everyone knows that Facebook, the world's biggest social network began at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts. We also know to well the story of Boston investment firms missing out on a company that could have made them billions of dollars. It's been widely noted that at least Boston VC giant Battery Ventures was at least [...]
Yesterday just after Twitter's debut on Wall Street a good friend of mine tweeted and updated her Facebook status that she wasn't going to buy Twitter because it didn't have a profit. She couldn't be more wrong. Now we're not going to talk about making big tech bets and trying to make a quick buck [...]
