Evernote Closes $85 Million Round
Organizational productivity app Evernote closed its latest round of financing on Friday, raising another $85 million in funding. Seventy-five percent of those funds are in the form of a secondary...
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Livescribe Writes Fix for Security Flaw With Its Wi-Fi Digital Pen
Digital pen maker Livescribe on Monday issued a security update for its new Sky digital pen, plugging a hole that could have allowed unauthorized access to its customers’ notes. Livescribe said the...
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Going Beyond Personal Productivity, Evernote Launches App for Businesses
Less than a week after closing $85 million in funding, Evernote is all business — small business, that is. Evernote Business for Mac The company just announced that it will launch a premium,...
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Fresh Design Brightens Evernote 5
Evernote 5, currently available for Mac and devices with the iOS operating system, features a complete redesign, with an improved ‘Cards’ view, top, of saved items. Ever miss the simplicity of file...
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2012, The Year I Basically Stopped Using Apple's iOS Apps
As I took a moment to edit my iPhone homescreen this weekend, I realized that I use very few of Apple’s iOS apps anymore. There are several iOS apps I have barely ever opened — Stocks, Compass and the...
View ArticleIn Wake of Hack, Evernote to Add Heightened Security Features
Just days after a widely publicized security breach, Evernote said it planned to add additional security features to its product, according to a statement made to Information Week on Tuesday. The plan...
View ArticleClearing Up an iPad Picture Problem
Q: I was so delighted to get your instructions last week on how to delete pictures from my iPad but it doesn’t work for me. I can check off the photos I want to delete and the red delete button does...
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Jerry Yang Is Back (And Investing More Than Ever)
If truth be told, Jerry Yang never really disappeared from the Silicon Valley scene, even if he left Yahoo rather suddenly just over a year ago — resigning from the board and all other positions at...
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The Building Is the New Server
Image copyright Oleksiy MarkThe personal computer is dead. As quickly as we moved from the desktop to the laptop, we are moving to the tablet — never to return. With the death of the PC, an entire...
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Evernote's Phil Libin Talks About Global Expansion, Google Incursion and...
Last week, I motored on down to Evernote’s spanking (and quite delightful) new offices in Redwood City, Calif., to talk to Phil Libin, its CEO and co-founder, about what has been happening of late at...
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LivingSocial Hacked -- More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails,...
LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive cyber attack on its computer systems, which an email from CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy — just sent to employees and obtained...
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LivingSocial Hack Update: Investigation Ongoing, While Emails Out to 50...
After a massive breach of its computer systems yesterday, LivingSocial has sent out emails to all of the 50 million customers impacted, a company spokesman said, and is now working with law...
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A Year Later, What Google Drive Means for Startups
Startup image copyright white_boardA year ago, we were a launch partner when Google unveiled Drive. Much has been made of what this means for Google or the cloud storage wars, but there’s been an even...
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Evernote's Phil Libin and Flipboard's Mike McCue on iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks
It’s easy to tell what Apple thinks of iOS 7, with everyone from Tim Cook on down praising it as the biggest thing since the iPhone. To get a reality check, we chatted just after the keynote finished...
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ThousandEyes Aims to Ease Solving Cloud Performance Problems
Today’s a day for enterprise-focused companies to be coming out of stealth. The latest is called ThousandEyes, and its aim is to address a peculiar problem that emerges in the era of cloud computing....
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Photo-Sharing Startup Cooliris Partners With China's Tencent, Russia's Yandex
Cooliris, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup focused on bringing a photo-browsing gallery-like product to mobile and the Web, announced on Tuesday a new joint partnership with Tencent and Yandex, two...
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LiveMinutes Brings Collaboration to Evernote, Also Raises Money
Evernote is a personal tool that is increasingly put to business use. Last year, it launched a premium business version that added support for sharing task lists and notes with spreadsheets or...
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Quip Is Great for Collaborating, but Still a Word-Processing Work in Progress
I’m writing this column using a new app running on my desktop browser. When I’m finished, I’ll send it to my editor, who is also using this app, by simply hitting a “share” button and typing in her...
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Media Device Stores and Shares Well With Others
[ See post to watch video ] Plenty of people are digital pack rats and proud of it. And why not? With seemingly unlimited remote storage options available free of charge or for a small monthly fee,...
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Morgenthaler Ventures' Internet Partners Rebrand as Canvas Venture Fund
The Internet investors from Morgenthaler Ventures would like a fresh start, please. Gary Little, Rebecca Lynn, and Gary Morgenthaler So they’ve chosen a new name, Canvas Venture Fund, and raised a...
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Evernote Looks to Pen and Paper to Expand Its Digital Products
Evernote used its annual conference on Thursday to show off the usual array of updates to its signature apps and services. But its most significant announcements were a series of partnerships aimed at...
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Livescribe 3, Jot Script and Pencil: Three “Smart” Pens for the Tablet Era
When was the last time you hand-wrote something? Maybe you don’t remember. Maybe you do, but your hand started to hurt after one paragraph. Maybe you didn’t even recognize your own handwriting. For...
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Seven Questions for Evernote CEO Phil Libin
Having crossed the threshold of 50 million users, cloud software company Evernote has in the last few months reached into a fundamentally different realm: Selling physical goods. It started simply...
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The NeatConnect Scanner Is a Cloud-Connected Guilty Pleasure
Scanners, like printers, often get a bad rap — and for good reason. They sometimes stubbornly resist connecting to your computer, even if they’re physically connected to the machine, and require the...
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Evernote CEO Phil Libin on Turning Loyal Users Into Paying Customers
Chances are that if you’re an Evernote user, if given the chance to sit down with its founder and CEO Phil Libin, you’d want to take the opportunity to do a deep dive on the company and its product....
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