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By Ken Kurson 1/15 4:00pm

Technology

Making hearts and algorithms throb.

Third Time’s (even more) the Charm? Ori Allon Aims to Replicate Success With NY Real Estate Startup

Ori Allon, the charmed entrepreneur who has already sold one company to Google and another to Twitter, has been feverishly working on his third—Urban Compass. So far, Mr. Allon and founder Robert Reffkin won’t even say what Urban Compass does. But that air of mystery hasn’t slowed the company’s growth—they have raised $8 million from an impressive group of seed funders including Goldman Sachs, AmEx CEO Ken Chenault and Thrive Capital*. The start-up now has 18 employees and counting.

One of those 18 offers a clue to what Urban Compass will actually involve, and our guess is real estate. As first reported by The Real Deal, Gordon Golub, who was an Executive Vice President at Citi Habitats, left after 18 years to join Mr. Allon and Mr. Reffkin. Read More

By Drew Grant 9/28/11 4:35pm

Technology

Now life is perfect!

Subway Cell Service Proves “Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy” Theory

First the iPhone was only available to AT&T customers, forcing Verizon users to wait four whole years until they could play Angry Birds like the rest of the tech elite. But with the release of the Android and various other Smartphones using a variety of carriers, it no longer seemed necessary to pay the $200 cancellation fee to switch cell phone providers. Until now. Read More

By Hunter Walker 11/10/10 3:44pm

Technology

The NYT’s Blog Blackout [Updated]

The blogs on the web site of The New York Times experienced an outage from sometime Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday. According to the anonymous band of Times critics over at Nytpicker, all of the paper’s blogs were down:

“For the last 12 hours at least, the NYT’s entire blog system has gone suddenly, quietly Read More