LittleBits Raises a $3.65M. Series A to Build Toys That Aren’t Cheap Trash Local maker-minded startup LittleBits just announced a $3.65 million Series A, led by True Ventures. Also participating were Khosla Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech By Kelly Faircloth
Caterina Fake’s New Startup: Pinwheel, ‘A Flickr for Places (Ish),’ Lets You Leave Notes on a Map Last June, Flickr and Hunch cofounder Caterina Fake announced that she had raised $2 million from investors like New York’s By Nitasha Tiku
Mike Arrington Goes Nuclear: Says NY Times Is Conflicted Tech Investor via True Ventures Mike Arrington warned on Twitter that the New York Times was playing with fire after David Carr wrote a column By Ben Popper
Jo Fish Confronts the Tension Between Flesh and Data in a World of Visual Saturation By Elisa Carollo
Job Hugging: The HR Buzzword That Reveals a Deeper Productivity Crisis By Dr. David Oxley and Dr. Helmut Schuster
One Fine Show: “Strange Realities, The Symbolist Imagination” at the Art Institute of Chicago By Dan Duray