Baskin-Robbins oughtta be scared. Easily the highlight for me while attending DEMO 2006 was sampling the wares of the Moobella Ice Cream vending machine. Yesterday they announced their $25M Series A financing, which is an impressive indicator of how far along they...
Lesbians: It’s always about them, isn’t it? They take and they take and they take. It’s just not enough that they want to get married, work alongside us, raise their children, invade the fantasies of otherwise normal tobacco-chewing NASCAR-watching...
As GigaOM reported, Google announced the $625M acquisition of Postini this morning, which was not unforeseen. With Cisco’s $800M acquisition of Ironport (which was hardware-based), Symantec’s $300M acquisition of Brightmail (which channeled its services...
The law of unintended consequences can be a bitch. When you meddle with the natural order of things, imbalances inevitably occur. Regulators (because that’s what they do) observe the imbalances and add more meddling regulations in an attempt to counteract them...
Earlier this year GIZMODO announced the obvious, that Rogers Wireless would eventually launch the iPhone in Canada, based on the ever-reliable “confirmation from customer service” which took the form of an apparent email… this turned out to be a...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
