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| This Startup Had the Best 6-Second Pitch at SXSW | | Friday, March 15, 2013 3:52 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| An Australian startup called Sharetapes Rick Rolled its way to fame with a Vine that Mashable and NowThisNews deemed the best for any startup at South by Southwest this year. The Vine, below, tersely outlines the company's business model: NFC- and QR code-enabled physical cards that hold information like songs and videos.
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| Auto-Tuned Lucky Charms St. Paddy's Day Tribute Is Musically Delicious | | Friday, March 15, 2013 3:04 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, your favorite cartoon leprechaun gets a modern-day update in this auto-tune remix from YouTube user Melodysheep. "Machinima approached me about the opportunity to remix some vintage Lucky Charms ads for St. Paddy's day and as part of a new marketing campaign," melodysheep a.k.a. John D. Boswell, told Mashable. "General Mills provided me with access to a bunch of their old ads, dating back to the 60s/70s.
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| Dropbox Buys Mailbox | | Friday, March 15, 2013 1:19 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Dropbox, the cloud storage synchronization firm, on Friday announced that it has purchased Mailbox, a hot new email app. Under the deal, all 13 employees of Orchestra, the company that makes the app, have joined Dropbox. Financial details were not disclosed. "Like many of you, when we discovered Mailbox we fell in love—it was simple, delightful, and beautifully engineered.
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| Yahoo Should Seize the Moment and Improve Its RSS Reader | | Friday, March 15, 2013 12:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| RSS readers may be the iPod of the web — still viable but past their heyday. For Google, though, the analogy breaks down when you consider profits. Apple still makes a bundle on iPods, but Google never made a dime on its Reader and never will. That explains Google's decision this week to kill off Reader.
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| Hulu Names Interim CEO | | Friday, March 15, 2013 11:36 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| It seems that Hulu has been unable to find a permanent chief executive in the two-and-a-half months since CEO Jason Kilar announced his plans to leave the video-streaming company. Andy Forssell, Hulu's senior vice president of content, has been named acting CEO two weeks ahead of Kilar's scheduled departure.
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| Italian Anti-HIV Campaign Uses Toilet Paper With QR Codes | | Friday, March 15, 2013 10:21 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Toilet paper has been used to print your tweets and as a vehicle for ads and coupons, so why not HIV education? Italian HIV awareness charity Sieropositivo is giving the idea a spin with a campaign in women's rooms at trendy clubs in Rome and Milan.
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| Samsung's JK Shin Pans Windows Phone Sales | | Friday, March 15, 2013 9:43 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| When it comes to mobile platforms, we like to think it's a topic the CEO of one of the world's largest smartphone makers knows a thing or two about.
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| Mark Zuckerberg is the Highest-Rated CEO by Employees | | Friday, March 15, 2013 9:04 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Outsiders may question Mark Zuckerberg's leadership from time to time, but it seems that inside of Facebook, he can do no wrong. The 28-year-old Facebook CEO topped Glassdoor's list of the highest-rated chief executives. Zuckerberg got a 99% approval rating, a 14% jump over last year.
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