MapMyFitness is a veteran of the online health and fitness space, with the first iteration of its website appearing back in the summer of 2005. Since then, the startup has developed a suite of fitness-oriented websites (like MapMyRUN.com, MapMyRIDE.com, MapMyWALK.com, et al) to let users track and store their running, cycling, walking and hiking endeavors, along with accessing a database. 

High-end electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla announced the upcoming launch of its Model S four-door sedan, which should be available almost any day now. If you are one of the lucky people who ordered the luxury EV, it could arrive in your driveway as soon as June 22. The Tesla website breaks the Model S into two groups — the limited edition Model S Signature and the just plain Model S.. 

In a nearly 30 year career, the Flaming Lips have never adhered to conventional wisdom. In a truly epic performance this summer, the band will continue pushing boundaries and searching for what singer Wayne Coyne refers to as “absurd.” In June, the Flaming Lips will attempt a new test of endurance when the group tries to break Jay-Z’s Guinness World Records title for the most live performances. 

Why do Google Doodlers build the things they do? They’re fans, that’s why. When Google’s Chief Doodler Ryan Germick and Google Engineer Joey Hurst decided they wanted to build the Google Moog Synthesizer Doodle, it was to “Pay tribute to someone who was like a patron saint of the nerdy arts,” said Germick. Germick told Mashable that he was a huge Robert Moog fan. Moog,. 

Give me that Old Time Zeppelin The first time you see Eureka, it’s hard not to think of the Hindenberg era. (Of course, they are powered by completely different gases — helium, not hydrogen) Click here to view this gallery. If you live in the Bay Area, you’re likely already familiar with the Eureka. You can see its white and orange frame just about. 

Facebook’s initial public offering is off to a less than spectacular start, to put it generously. The stock closed at $31 on its third day Tuesday, down 18% from its initial offer price of $38, which valued the company just above $100 billion. After Facebook’s stock closed flat its first day, investors and media began to speculate whether Facebook’s initial offer price was. 

The blogging, Facebook updating, digitally hip mom has become a domestic trope these days. But what about dads? Statistics show they’re catching on too. In fact, in some ways dads may even be more social media savvy than their female parenting counterparts, according to family life survey conducted last year. Fathers, the study found, had 26 more online friends than mothers on average,. 

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Fundable Quick Pitch: Fundable helps crowdfund startups. Genius Idea: Taking advantage of new legislation that makes crowdfunding legal. Kickstarter may have provided millions. 

Former Apple software evangelist Guy Kawasaki thinks that Google+ has a lot in common with Apple. “When I saw Macintosh for the first time it was somewhat of a religious experience for me,” said Kawasaki during a talk at the Google+ Photographer’s Conference Tuesday. “Fast forward about 25 years and I had a second religious experience — which is when I saw Google+ for. 

Buried in the announcement revealing actor Samuel L. Jackson as the host for the 12th Annual BET Awards were brief descriptions of the ceremony’s first mobile app. Mashable, however, got an early demo last week of the massively interactive app. It’s sprinkled with gaming elements tied to voting for the award show’s nominees or predicting the order of performers during the July. 

From pedaling to charge our laptops to converting our body heat into electricity, the idea of using our bodies to generate energy is becoming more common. And a 24-year-old entrepreneur in Kenya has another idea to add to that mix: He’s created a shoe technology to help us charge our mobile devices as we walk or run. The technology lies within an ulta-thin chip of crystals that would be. 

First reported by TechCrunch, Sean Parker and Sean Fanning’s stealth video startup Airtime has announced a new round of funding along with its first acquisition. According to TechCrunch, the amount of funding raised for its B round is $25M. That’s not bad for a product that hasn’t launched yet. Regarding the rest of the story, Airtime has acquired a company called Erly, which describes. 

Days after giving London soccer club Chelsea its first ever Champions League title with a stunning penalty kick, star player Didier Drogba used YouTube to let fans down easy and tell them he’ll leave the team this summer. In a video posted to Chelsea’s official page on the video sharing network, Drogba looked fans in the face and thanked them for their support during his eight years with. 

We’ve discovered that Airtime, the video startup founded by famed Napster alums Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, has allegedly made its first acquisition — before truly exiting stealth mode. The target? Erly, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup aimed at letting people create social experiences around their experiences. Update: We’ve confirmed the acquisition with a source at Airtime,. 

Rumors are flying that Airtime, the video startup founded by famed Napster alums Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, has allegedly made its first acquisition — before truly exiting stealth mode. The target? Erly, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup aimed at letting people create social experiences around their experiences. It seems like a funny fit at first, but as soon as you scratch the surface. 

Uptime monitoring service Pingdom analyzed the top 10,000 websites on the web and unsurprisingly found out that 74.6% of them are served on web servers run by open source software. While it’s not surprising, it’s definitely impressive. Even more impressive is that Apache web service and nginx are used by 61% of the top 10k sites on the Web. Microsoft’s enterprise offering, which. 

Nellie Akalp is the CEO of CorpNet.com, an online legal document filing service, where she helps entrepreneurs incorporate or form an LLC for their new businesses. Connect with Nellie on Twitter or visit her free resource center. Today, independent contractors are a critical part of small businesses. They fill any number of roles, from social media consultant to web designer. And. 

If you’re someone who thinks gamification is just a fad, you may want to look away now. To be clear, Bunchball isn’t just jumping on the latest buzzword. The company was founded to deliver gamification tools all the way back in 2005 — founder and Chief Product Officer Rajat Paharia has told me that he probably came to the market too early, and has had to keep the company alive while. 

Foursquare users can now check-in to Olympics venues around the world — and potentially win a trip to the 2012 London Games by doing so. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) launched check-in locations around the world and an official Olympics badge on Tuesday. The IOC’s official Foursquare page has details on more than 40 historic sites from past games and venues for the. 

If you’re interested in what’s “next” in the world of technology, then watching Google’s CEO speak at this year’s Zeitgeist is a can’t miss. Of course, his talk was centered around all of the areas that Google focuses on, but that’s becoming everything you can think of, basically. During his conversation, which started out with his excitement about having Project Glass (not.