MySpace Co-Founder And CTO Aber Whitcomb Leaves, T...
September 29, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
MySpace has just announced that CTO and co-founder Aber Whitcomb will be leaving the company, to be replaced by MySpace Music’s current CTO Alex Maghen. The news doesn’t come as much of a surprise — we speculated that Whitcomb would be leaving the company as part of the core executive …
Ruby-On-Rails Startup FiveRuns Acquired By WorkThi...
September 29, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
Ruby-on-Rails startup FiveRuns has been acquired by WorkThink, according to FiveRuns’ site. FiveRuns provides a variety of monitoring products for Ruby on Rails and related open source and commercial systems. Built on Rails and delivered as a hosted service, FiveRuns’ products manage the co…
Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos Joins Benchmark As ...
September 29, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
Mårten Gustaf Mickos, former CEO of MySQL, is Benchmark Capital’s newest Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR).
Mickos served as chief executive officer for the open source database company from January 2001 to February 2008, when Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL for $1 billion. Benchmark was a rela…
Financial Startups Demo Their Dashboards At Finova...
September 29, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
The following guest post is written by Larry Chiang, a co-founder of Duck9 who additionally regularly blogs for BusinessWeek. Today he is reporting from the Finovate startup conference.
At the FinovateStartup conference in New York City today, it is clear that financial startups are pushing forwar…
Microsoft Courier Gets Demonstrated More Fully, Li...
September 29, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
The trickle of news about Microsoft’s Courier device continues, and that moment there’s a bit more of a realistic walkthrough. The device is being shown to be much more of a next-generation notepad than all-purpose tablet, and that’s probably for the best; Microsoft overreaching with a device like t…