Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

OutCast PR cofounder Margit Wennmachers is now a partner at one of the more powerful and active VC firms in the valley, Andreessen Horowitz.

The New York Times's Claire Cain Miller, who broke the news, says the gig puts Margit in rare company:

This has us wondering: I...

Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

OutCast PR cofounder Margit Wennmachers is now a partner at one of the more powerful and active VC firms in the valley, Andreessen Horowitz.

The New York Times's Claire Cain Miller, who broke the news, says the gig puts Margit in rare company:

This has us wondering: I...

Engadget (Tuesday)
We just got a look at the new Kinect Dashboard-lite for the Xbox 360. In some ways, it's pretty charming, with fun, jazzed up icons (when you hover over them they tilt and show off depth), a simplistic layout, and some great voice controls. The downside is this all comes at the cost of a brand new,...

PEHub (Tuesday)
Tesla Motors, a San Carlos, Calif.-based maker of electric vehicles, has set its IPO terms to 11.1 million common shares being offered at between $14 and $16 per share. It would have an initial market cap of approximately $1.46 billion, were it to price at the high end of its range. The company repo...

Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

Good morning! A LOT of news:

Zynga raised a gigantic $147 million round from Softbank Capital to fund an Asian expansion. Twitter rolled out its "Places" feature allowing people to tweet their exact locations. Twitter integrated Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins with the feature. R...

Techdirt (Tuesday)
We're always amazed when we see companies blame their users for their own screwups. The latest company to do this, as reported on TechCrunch, is Zynga, who gave out some codes to certain users for $120 worth of in-game currency in one of its games if those users moved off of one social networking p...