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| Feb 17, 2009 | Tech Layoffs Surge to 300,000 | http://widget.icharts.net
Layoffs in the tech sector are accelerating. It took exactly three weeks for tech layoffs to surge to 300,000, according to our Layoff Tracker. Since late January, when the tracker hit 200,000 layoffs, another 100,... |
| Feb 10, 2009 | Law Firm Blunder Reveals Value Of Facebook Payout To ConnectU: $65 Million | The founders of ConnectU were apparently paid as much as $65 million in cash and Facebook stock to settle their longstanding dispute with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, according to an ad unearthed by The Recorder this morning. The advertism... |
| Feb 10, 2009 | Analyst sees a $99 crippled iPhone in your future | reader comments 28 with 25 posters participating
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There's no end in sight to folks clamoring for a cheaper iPhone (nearly similar in size to the group clamoring for cheaper ... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | StumbleUpon Hits 7 Million Users, Quietly 50% Bigger Than Twitter | What’s got a button to push, knows how to make money while changing the world and is read all over? StumbleUpon! The social discovery network, like Pandora for webpages and videos, just passed 7 million users according to the site. That’s a... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Bebo Prepares Itself for Reinvention | Earlier this week, we were lamenting about Bebo’s lack of innovation in the online social networking space. Here it was 2009 and they were only just now releasing tools that would help take Bebo mobile. Once again, it looked like Bebo was f... |
| Feb 5, 2009 | Roundup: Ashton’s new show, Woz’s new company and more | Here’s the latest action:
Pansonic lays off 15,000: The consumer electronics giant shed 5 percent of its work force. It joins NEC, Sony, Hitachi and other Japanese companies in announcing major layoffs.
Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Media teams... |
| Feb 4, 2009 | Motorola disses Windows Mobile: Android “more competitive” | reader comments 19 with 17 posters participating, including story author
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Handset maker Motorola has revealed plans to scale back its commitment to Windows Mobile as it cont... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | Bebo to add a “timeline” — and data from Facebook and MySpace? | Updated
Will social network Bebo roll out new features to help it regain its stride against larger rivals like Facebook and MySpace — and justify the $850 million that AOL paid for it? Well, the latest answer to that question is a screensho... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | Huffington Post’s Lerer teaches journalism students to think like VCs | [Editor’s note: As newspapers watch their business models crumble, journalism schools are moving fast to restructure their curricula to emphasize technology and new media. Below, Columbia journalism graduate student Chikodi Chima reviews a ... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | Roundup: Ma.gnolia, Red Herring, Microsoft spy and Japan have a bad week, and more | Google Toolbar gives Firefox a taste of Chrome — Toolbar now offers personalized “new tab” pages with linked thumbnails of favorite and bookmarked sites (just like Google’s Chrome browser, only in Firefox).
Bill Gates, Debbie Downer of Davo... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | NYT could cut costs in half by giving subscribers a Kindle | Silicon Alley Insider has found that printing the New York Times costs twice as much as if the company gave every subscriber an Amazon Kindle using some rough numbers and elementary math. Obviously, not everyone likes the Kindle and cutting... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | No Fallout 3 PS3 DLC (and what's with all the schadenfreude?) | How many times can you tease Sony about the state of the PS3 before you become bored? The news that Bethesda won’t be developing DLC for the PS3 version of Fallout 3 has prompted me to ask this Very Important question.
So, Bethesda told MTV... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Gatehouse And NY Times Settle Linking Dispute: Bad News For Everyone | It appears that GateHouse Media and the NY Times have settled their dispute over the NYT’s Boston Globe linking to GateHouse’s local events site with a snippet of the text (something GateHouse’s own sites did as well). GateHouse had little ... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Tech Legal Week: IBM's EU Complaint, Apple Hat Trick, Plots Against Google, More | IBM Might Face EU Investigation -- Florida-based mainframe vendor T3 has filed a complaint in the EU against IBM for refusing to sell its z/OS operating system to companies using T3 hardware. [Source: Computerworld]
The plot to kill Google ... |
| Jan 25, 2009 | Best Buy's 32-inch 1080p HDTV & 80GB PS3 combo for $1,1000 is better than nothing (but only just) | It’s not quite a price cut, but it’s the next best thing. Walk into your local Best Buy and you should be able to pick up a 32-inch 1080p LCD Sony Bravia and an 80GB PS3 for $1,100. That’s about $300 less than you’d pay for the two items se... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Cisco Doing Servers a Symptom of the Times | The news that Cisco will push into the server market might seem like a big surprise -- and a big departure from its traditional base of networking equipment. But if you think about the direction computing is moving, it's not really surprisi... |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Analysts more or less expect positive results from Apple for Q1 | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jan 16, 2009 | Indie radio station goes Internet-only, back to roots | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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What happens when the Man cancels some of your best indie programming in the name of boosting ratings? If you're LA's Indie 103... |
| Jan 16, 2009 | It's About People, Not Technology | I don’t post much about Twitter even though I think about it a lot. First of all, being an investor and board member makes it complicated. Second, there’s way more chatter about Twitter than is necessary, and if anything the hype machine sh... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | Twitter and the iPhone on the scene of the US Airways Hudson River crash | A US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River this afternoon shortly after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport. As of right now a rescue mission is underway, but early reports indicate that everyone on the plane might be okay. Whil... |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Video: CNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan takes Jim Goldman to task over Steve Jobs’ health, too | CNBC Silicon Valley bureau chief Jim Goldman is having a tough week. Goldman said in December that “sources inside [Apple] tell me that Jobs’ decision was more about politics than his pancreas.” Ah, but this week, Apple announced that Jobs ... |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Video: Dan Lyons takes on CNBC’s Jim Goldman over Steve Jobs’ health | Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons takes CNBC’s Silicon Valley bureau chief Jim Goldman to task after Goldman swore that sources told him that Steve Jobs’ health was not the reason Apple marketing head Phil Schiller presented at Macworld instead ... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Roundup: Balderton’s new fund, Google’s “environmental impact” and more | Here’s the latest action:
Balderton Capital raises $430 million fund to take advantage of downturn — The London-based firm tells the Financial Times that “[p]art of the reason for raising this fund now is to take advantage of the opportunit... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Avoiding The Big Yellow Taxi Moment | There was an exchange between RickG and me in the comments to the "A Focus Group Of One" post I did on thursday.
Rick said the following:
First, you don’t report. You opine. That’s fine and I very much like
reading the site, but i... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | Packed House For The Crunchies, See You Tonight | Tonight’s Crunchies award ceremony in San Francisco is now totally sold out. We’re sorry if you didn’t get a chance to grab a ticket, but you’ll still be able to watch the show streamed live via Ustream (click here to start watching once th... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | Zynga's making big bucks, but not $50 mln | There is money to be made on social networks as poker addicts buy chips
When you sit around playing Texas Hold 'Em for hours on Zynga, you can start to see how the addictive nature of the popular game can compel you to spend big bucks buyin... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Polaris Antes Up for JibJab’s Third Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When I got an “ElfYourself” e-greeting from my brother’s family before Christmas 2007, I remember being surprised that the free greeting, though sponsored by OfficeMax, was ac... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Spark Capital Heads List of Boston VCs Most Exposed to Web 2.0 Tailspin | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated, Jan. 8, 8:40 am—see below: Everyone knows that when it comes to Internet investing, New England VCs are low flyers compared to their high-flying Silicon Valley counte... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Virtual goods making money for Zynga, but $50 million a year? | updated
Social networking applications generally aren’t known for making tens of millions of dollars. But Zynga, a company that makes casual games for sites like Facebook and MySpace as well as Apple’s iPhone, is making somewhere between $3... |
| Jan 6, 2009 | AOL Exec Kevin Conroy Out After Product Empire Dismantled | AOL’s EVP of Products and Marketing Kevin Conroy is leaving to take a new position at Univision.
This isn’t much of a surprise – we speculated on his future back in July when he announced (internally) the shuttering of four of his products ... |
| Dec 31, 2008 | VentureBeat’s integration of Facebook Connect: Working pretty well so far | We integrated Facebook Connect earlier this week, so now you can sign in and leave a comment on any of our articles using your Facebook username and password. The idea is that Connect will make it easier for you to show off your identity on... |
| Dec 30, 2008 | Consumer Reports consumes Consumerist | Gawker Media, the publisher of popular blogs such as Gawker and Jezebel, has sold its Consumerist blog to Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports.
Consumerist snarkily brings readers product deals and discounts as well as critique... |
| Dec 30, 2008 | Large form iPod Touch to launch in Fall '09 | We’ve got this from three independent sources close to Apple: expect a large screen iPod touch device to be released in the Fall of ’09, with a 7 or 9 inch screen. Prototypes have been seen and handled by one of our sources, and Apple is ta... |
| Dec 30, 2008 | Roundup: Cisco’s digital stereo, Twitter gets authority search, and more | Cisco offers digital stereo — The shift to digital entertainment is a big change from the company’s roots in routers and Internet pipes.
The Internet does another round of arguing about Twitter — Loic Le Meur, founder of video site Seesmic,... |
| Dec 28, 2008 | Crunchies 2008 voting begins! | Voting for the 2008 Crunchies is now open.
This is the second year of the tech-startup awards ceremony. It’s where the 15 best startups, founders and executives are awarded by the community based on outstanding performance. While the ceremo... |
| Dec 28, 2008 | Go Vote For The 2008 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2008 Crunchies awards, brought to you by VentureBeat, GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch went up for vote earlier this evening. Vote here for your favorite startups, products and entrepreneurs.
Nearly 180,000... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Record Labels Learning They Have Little Leverage On YouTube | Over the weekend, the story made the rounds about Warner Music’s dispute with Google over getting money from YouTube videos. As we discussed in our post on the topic, it seemed like Warner had very little leverage here: Google has no legal ... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | Some Good News For Project Playlist – A Deal With Sony BMG | It looks like embattled music service Project Playlist has someone other than Facebook in their corner. This morning, after remaining silent all weekend over the MySpace ban, they are announcing a much-needed agreement with Sony BMG to give... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Roundup: RIM sales holding up, Panasonic buys Sanyo, TV sales slowing | Here’s the latest action
RIM offers good guidance: Research in Motion said the third quarter was weak but the fourth quarter is turning out better than expected thanks to sales of new BlackBerry models such as the Storm.
Twitpay lets you se... |
| Dec 18, 2008 | The 3D Web in 2008 | What’s going on with the 3D web? At one point, it was being heralded as the next big thing. Is that still the case? Take for example, the virtual world Second Life. Once a booming place where every business had set up their online presence,... |
| Dec 18, 2008 | Those PSP2 rumors are wildly innacurate | Flickr’d
The rumors are wrong, Virginia, and Sony is not actively working on the PSP2. Rather, Sony is moving developers away from UMD and toward digital distribution, using the PSP store. Somehow, this was transformed into, “OMG SONY WORKI... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Apple's MacWorld Bailout: The Outlook for Trade Shows | I had already scratched CES off of my January calendar but was starting to book meetings for MacWorld, leaving time open for the Steve Jobs keynote speech, of course. But now that Jobs is sending in a second-stringer for the big spotlight e... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Traditional media are unlikely buyers | Don't expect TV and Print establishment to buy up consumer Internet startups
Over the last few years TV and Print publishing companies have been acquiring internet companies and providing the primary source of exits as IPOs have been few an... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Get Yer Crunchies Tickets Right This Second | Tickets for the one and only Crunchies, which honors the best products, startups and founders from around the tech world, are now on sale at Amiando.
The event is being held on Friday, January 9 at the beautiful Herbst Theater in San Franci... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Twitter Humiliates MySpace | Google Friend Connect launched with Twitter this morning, a big win for Google in the fight for control over user logins on third party sites. Recent speculation was that Twitter would be partnering with Facebook to integrate Connect first.... |
| Dec 14, 2008 | Video: PlayStation Home isn't a safe environment for female avatars | The video is totally SFW, but you might lose a few brain cells by watching it
PlayStation Home for the PS3 could be the absolute dumbest thing ever produced in the history of human civilization. (Penny-Arcade doesn’t like it either, and the... |
| Dec 13, 2008 | Home opens its doors for the PS3 | Sony's PlayStation 3 sales dropped 19% in November, but with the public availability of Home, the console has increased in value.
Silicon Alley Insider's Eric Krangel posted an op-ed today calling the PlayStation 3 a "sinking ship.&quo... |
| Dec 12, 2008 | Consumer Internet predictions for 2009 | From consumers seeking cheap thrills to the raised value of user-gen content
For the last two years I’ve been making predictions about the consumer internet, and this year is no exception.
First let’s take a look at how I did on last years ... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Bebo launches new homepage, its take on lifestreaming | Bebo is launching a big upgrade to its user homepage. The social network is integrating ways to read email and see what friends are doing on other sites in one place. It’s the AOL-owned company’s take on a web trend called “lifestreaming.”
... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Last Call For Those Crunchies Nominations | The Crunchies awards are right around the corner. Who will be named the Best Startup of 2008? The Best CEO? The Best app? The Best mobile? The Most Likely to Make the World a Better Place? You have until midnight PT tonight to enter your no... |
| Dec 8, 2008 | Tech Legal Week: Qualcomm, Broadcom, Apple, Yahoo, AA, Cisco, AMD, Intel, More | Qualcomm ups and downs -- A federal court upheld part of a previous ruling that Qualcomm failed to disclose certain patents to a standards body, but vacated part of the ruling saying that the company could not enforce the patents. This is p... |
| Dec 6, 2008 | Roundup: YouTube HD links, Del Biaggio charges, Korean game support, and more | YouTube gets links to high-definition videos — It already offered HD videos, you just had to use a simple hack to access them. In other YouTube news, the company is offering a new service for adding sound to videos you upload.
Valley invest... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | Cyber Monday Morning Quarterbacking: What Happened | If Black Friday is supposed to be the stomping grounds -- unfortunately literal in some cases -- of the average consumer, then Cyber Monday should test the spending mettle of the more techno-savvy that head online. It actually doesn't, as t... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | Tech Roundup: IE Loses Ground, Monty Disses MySQL 5.1, iPhone Linux, More | Microsoft loses Internet gateway ground -- The number of people using Internet Explorer dropped to below 70 percent as both Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox made gains. [Source: ZDNet's Between the Lines]
CES to feel the spending heat -... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Tech Roundup: Yahoo Stumbles, Dell Grumbles, VC Tumbles, More | Yahoo tries to find a path -- At this point, any direction might be better than the tail spinning for Yahoo, which is considering CEOs with no Internet or media experience. Could it be because anyone already in the field and qualified to do... |
| Nov 29, 2008 | Every time you buy an HDTV an angel gets its wings (or the economy is saved, one of those) | How were the crowds at your local Best Buy, Circuit City and PC Richards yesterday? Good? Great? Grim? (My local Best Buy was pretty crowded yesterday, to say nothing of the mall itself; parking space was at a premium.) To be sure, if there... |
| Nov 28, 2008 | As holiday season closes in, e-books exploding in popularity | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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There are a number of trends that have skyrocketed in popularity this year despite the otherwise muted economy. One of those tr... |
| Nov 26, 2008 | ComScore: Google search share still creeping upward | Data firm comScore released its latest search engine rankings today, showing that search leaders Google and Yahoo slightly increased their market share, while other engines held steady or fell.
Google, of course, retains overwhelming domina... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | KickApps raised $14 million in new funds | White-label social network raises a total of $31 million
KickApps, a popular of white-label social networking solutions, raised more than $13 million in a Series C round of funding. The round was led by North Atlantic Capital, with particip... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Magnify.net takes $750K for web video hosting | Magnify.net, a New York-based startup that helps regular people add videos to their web sites, snagged $750K in first-round financing to expand its operations. It tacks this total onto the $1 million it raised in February. The service allow... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Reuters Bails On Second Life After Figuring Out It's Really Not That Interesting | One of the sillier attempts by businesses to look cool by setting up shop in Second Life was that of Reuters, which assigned a reporter to hang out in the virtual world full-time and report on it as if it were any other economy. While we no... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Tech Roundup: Google, Microsoft Face Off, Kindle Late, Best Buy MacBook Prices, More | Google cutting workforce, costs -- Google has confirmed that it's paring back a contractor force that numbers 10,000, but apparently the plans have been in place for six months and there is no word on how many contractors would get the axe.... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | StockTwits creates another way to unlock Twitter’s potential | StockTwits, a startup that aggregates stock-related “tweets” on micro-messaging service Twitter, has released a Firefox extension that links stock tickers to the StockTwits site. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures (a Twitter investor) say... |
| Nov 24, 2008 | Tech Roundup: Apple Un-Mail, Engineers Get Jail Time, Sprint Loses Exec, More | Apple faces e-discovery bungle -- In its court action against Mac cline maker Psystar, a document apparently shows that Apple had no company-wide plan for archiving, saving, and deleting email. That could cause a problem in the face of e-di... |
| Nov 23, 2008 | Russian investment firm ONEXIM to acquire Forbes? | Update: Elevation’s Roger McNamee has just responded, saying the reports are untrue: “Forbes absolutely denies this rumor, and has no knowledge of the source. Forbes Russia is also not for sale to the ONEXIM group.”
Several news reports in ... |
| Nov 21, 2008 | Political news site The Huffington Post may or may not have raised $15 million | The Huffington Post, a popular political news site, has raised a $15 million third round of funding, according to The Times UK. The investor is Oak Investment Partners, PaidContent says it has confirmed, adding that the funding may be highe... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Announcing The Crunchies 2008 | VentureBeat is happy to officially announce The Crunchies 2008 — the second year of this tech-startup awards ceremony.
With the economic downturn setting in, there may be fewer business successes to celebrate for the foreseeable future. So ... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | It's Time For The Crunchies! | It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has gone by since we gave out those crazy gorilla awards to the best startup and product successes in Silicon Valley and around the world. Some of the photos from last year are here.
The Crunchies are... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Telecom Roundup: Sirius XM in Serious Trouble, Motorola Bribe Developers, More | Sirius XM keeps plummeting -- Sirius XMsubscribers are cyber screaming over changes in programming. Maybe that's one reason why the stock price dropped to 20 cents. [Source: Ars Technica, Silicon Alley Insider]
Motorola hopes that bribes wi... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Roundup: IBM snags Transitive, HP buoys market, Transmeta sells out | Here’s the latest action:
IBM buys Transitive Technologies: Transitive has come up with a way to translate code from one hardware platform to another on the fly. Companies such as Apple used it to transition to new operating systems without... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Telecom Roundup: Virgin Cuts, China Mobile App Store, WiMAX for Africa, More | Virgin Mobile to cut ten percent of staff -- Virgin Mobile will cut ten percent of its staff in New Jersey and California, which translates into 45 people. The trigger? "Continued synergies" by from the acquisition of Helio and ou... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | 1Cast: Sort Of Like Redlasso, But Legal | Earlier this year we watched as Redlasso, a very popular video service that allowed bloggers to clip portions of television content, got beaten into submission (at least temporarily) by a flurry of lawsuits. The company’s platform gave blog... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Who's going to reinvent Yahoo? | The characteristics, and the short list
Yahoo is in need of a great CEO who can re-brand the beleaguered company. No longer should the words "peanut butter" come to mind when people refer to this Internet pioneer. Rather, the new ... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Boxee | I wrote a post about our most recent investment, Boxee, today on the Union Square Ventures blog. Boxee founder and CEO Avner Ronen wrote a post on the Boxee blog about the investment. I encourage you to click on those links and read all abo... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | Joe the plumber's landing page | How ReachLocal, Yodle and Clickable can help the plumbers of the world
Last month I attended the New Business Models For News Summit and found myself running the "revenue" breakout group. We talked quite a bit about generating rev... |
| Nov 16, 2008 | Joe The Plumber's Landing Page | Last month I attended the New Business Models For News Summit and found myself running the "revenue" breakout group. We talked quite a bit about generating revenue from local merchants. There are a bunch of companies working on th... |
| Nov 14, 2008 | Tech Layoffs and Bad Management | It's official: Sun Microsystems is laying off 15 to 18 percent of its workforce. Such announcements from tech companies offer as little surprise as a single-day multi-hundred-point movement in the Dow. The tactic has become a management tru... |
| Nov 14, 2008 | Getting The Fill (aka buying on the way down) | One week ago, last friday morning, I wrote that I was waiting for the fill on three "good to fill" orders I had placed weeks before. They were:
$AMZN at $40
$GOOG at $320
$AAPL at $90
I got my fill on $GOOG earlier this week and m... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | Roundup: Intel cuts estimates, iPhone games taking off and more | Here’s the latest action:
Intel cuts fourth quarter estimates — The chip maker says sales could fall by as much as 19 percent, and things look similarly bleak for chip companies Applied Materials and National Semiconductor.
IPhone takes on ... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | Google Analyst: "Worst Economic Environment In Our Collective Lifetimes" | Google’s stock price closed yesterday at $291, the first time it has dropped below $300 since 2005. It’s 44% off of its 52-week high of $725. Most analysts think its cheap and getting cheaper – the average price target is still over $500. F... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | Online Video: Where's The Money? | Here is the stark reality of online video: nobody is making much money and the enthusiastic projections for online video advertising going from $500 million in 2008 to more than $5 billion in five years will undoubtedly be pared back in the... |
| Nov 11, 2008 | Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn?) employee stock sale begins | Christmas may come a little early for Facebook employees who own stock in their company. This summer, we learned the social network was planning a unique method of keeping talented employees happy before a surely-distant initial public offe... |
| Nov 11, 2008 | Restricted Stock vs Options When We Are "Under Water" | You’d have thought we would learn our lesson with stock options. Back in the post-bubble era, I spent a lot of time on boards talking about granting new options to employees who are underwater. When the value of a company goes up too fast, ... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | WiMax — Game on? | [Editor’s Note: Back in April, venture capitalist Paul Grim painted a somewhat bleak picture of the future of mobile WiMax networks, pointing to Sprint and Clearwire’s inability to strike a deal as one of its prime weaknesses. Last week, th... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Roundup: China stimulus plan boosts markets, Circuit City bankrupt, BitTorrent layoffs | Here’s the latest action:
China’s stimulus plan buoys stock market: China’s plan to spend $586 billion on infrastructure helped the country’s markets regain upward growth.
Circuit City files for bankruptcy: At a time when tech goods sales a... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Spot.Us Experiments With Citizen-Funded Community Journalism | Newspapers are dying across the country. Local papers are shutting down, Gannett is laying off 3,000 people, the Christian Science Monitor will no longer put out a print edition, and even the New York Times is facing a serious cash crunch. ... |
| Nov 9, 2008 | Zuckerberg's "Second Law" And My Vision For Social Media | Nick Carr takes offense to Mark Zuckerberg’s "second law of social media" which Saul Hansell describes as:
“I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much
information as they share this year, and next year, they wi... |
| Nov 7, 2008 | Cash panic sweeping VC industry: The capital calls problem | updated
Reports are growing that the financial crisis is hurting big investors that have traditionally sustained the venture capital industry. Large institutions, such as pension funds, financial institutions (including some of the banks th... |
| Nov 6, 2008 | Coming soon to YouTube - Feature films | YouTube morphing to compete with Hulu, Veoh; but can it make money?
Just last week, I had a discussion with Jordan Hoffner, YouTube director of content partnerships, about long-form and short-form content online and monetizing both. Hoffner... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Tech Telecom Roundup: WiMAX Money, Sprint Suit, Nokia Cuts, HD Radio | WiMAX gets WiMAD money-- As companies get ready for a rocky slide, WiMAX management vendor WiChorus put down a considerable layer of burlap in the form of $18 million in funding from Pinnacle Ventures and three current investors. This makes... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | Here are the election sites I’m twitchily refreshing every minute | Yeah, this post will likely be completely uninteresting in a few hours.
But for those of us living in the moment, online….
Data analysis sites:
Pollster.com — Live poll analysis and map
Five Thirty Eight — Live poll analysis
Google’s live m... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | Netflix to stop selling DVDs | Know that little button that pops up that lets you buy DVDs on Netflix . It’s going away. They’ll probably sell all their old DVDs to wholesalers and save on the cost of shipping unwanted DVDs at a significant discount.
While I don’t believ... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | Upcoming iPhone production cuts may be due to slowing demand | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Nov 4, 2008 | Tech Telecom Roundup: Verizon Wireless Data, AT&T Caps, iPhone Slows, More | Verizon says data pay as you go should go, increases DSL bandwidth -- According to some documents that sneaked out of the company, Verizon Wirelesswill soon require any PDA or smartphone to have a data plan of at least $29.99 a month or mor... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | FCC Cracks Open 'White Space' | |
| Nov 4, 2008 | Apple's iPod chief steps down, iPhone sales outlook follows suit | Senior Vice President of Apple's iPod division, Tony Fadell has stepped down from his leadership position, and is being replaced by former IBM exec Mark Papermaster.
Fadell is regarded as the progenitor of the iPod ecosystem, bringing to Ap... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | Netflix cans used DVD sales | Online movie rental service Netflix has been evolving on an almost daily basis. Following a number of developments in its streaming video category, it announced yesterday it will soon cease selling previously viewed DVDs.
On the official Ne... |
| Nov 3, 2008 | Update: 115 People Lose Their Jobs At Spot Runner, Weblistic Acquisition Is Washed Out | The layoffs at Spot Runner are a lot worse than we expected. Instead of 50 to 75 people, Spot Runner is cutting much deeper—eliminating 115 jobs. Co-founder and CEO Nick Grouf characterizes this as “under 30 percent” of the company’s total ... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | Funding roundup: Playfish, Helium raise $17M | Playfish, Helium, TuneCore, and iStores receive funding this week Here's a roundup of companies in the mobile, video, digital media, social network, and advertising sectors that announced their funding this past week.
Playfish raised $17 mi... |