The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is targeting an IPO between April – June 2012 (VentureBeat)
Spotify launches a music platform (Evolver.fm)
Complaints pop up for Jawbone’s UP wearable health/fitness device (All Things D)
RIP Napster. Napster officially merged with Rhapsody. (Mashable)
It was a bad week for Mozilla. Chrome overtakes Firefox (ZDNet) and their deal with Google is ending (ZDNet)
Acquisitions:
- SAP acquires SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion (NY Times DealBook)
- Facebook acquires the Gowalla team but not the app (Gowalla blog)
Path launches the 2.0 version of their app and got mostly positive reviews. Some concerns were raised about the feature that automatically tracks your location.
- One Year Later, Path ‘Personal Network’ App Still Brings the Love (Wired Gadget Lab)
- New Path 2.0 automatically chronicles, shares your life (Rafe Needleman, CNET)
- New Path kicks ass… (Robert Scoble)
Robert Scoble interviews Path founders Dave Morin and Dustin Mierau: