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| Aug 5, 2015 | IoT could demand a whole new, dedicated network — here’s why | Today, most networked appliances on the Internet of Things (IoT) are not too demanding from a bandwidth perspective. Often they just share simple data that only require a few bytes to transfer from one device to another. For example, a sens... |
| Aug 5, 2015 | IoT could demand a whole new, dedicated network — here’s why | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today, most networked appliances on the Internet of Things (IoT) are not too demanding from a bandwidth perspective. Often they just sh... |
| Oct 14, 2014 | Eric Schmidt on the special trait of Google’s top talent and how to attract them (in 3 quotes) | Google’s Eric Schmidt is out promoting the company in a new management tell-all, How Google Works. He and his co-author Jonathan Rosenberg argue that because the Internet industry is littered with the graves of fallen empires, companies nee... |
| Dec 5, 2012 | Musicians fault Vinyl Vaults | Do you remember Napster? Not the paid streaming music service sold last year to Rhapsody, but the original peer-to-peer music sharing service that was hugely popular from 1999-2001 when it went down in a legal ball of flames over copyright ... |
| Sep 17, 2012 | Keen On… Don Dodge: Why Indoor Location Is The Next Big Thing [TCTV] | Don Dodge is well known to longtime TechCrunch readers. Dodge was the guy who Mike Arrington turned into a bit of a martyr after he got unceremoniously fired by Microsoft back in November 2009. Indeed, as Dodge told me last week backstage a... |
| May 7, 2012 | Google Ventures-Backed Location-Sharing Service EchoEcho Raises $750k From Bullpen, PROfounders | EchoEcho is one of the more useful location-based applications on the market today. Instead of focusing on check-ins and deals, the application simply makes it easy for you to find out where your friends are and lets you set up a meeting wi... |
| Apr 15, 2012 | An Open Letter To Those Not Employed At Instagram | Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip.
Dear Non-Instagramers,
Sorry that you didn’t ... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Instagram is worth $1B to Facebook | Yesterday, Facebook announced that it acquired Instagram for $1 Billion. The company is less than two years old, has no revenue, and about a dozen employees. Remember, acquisitions are about what the acquirer can do with the company in the ... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble | It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s... |
| Oct 15, 2011 | Top 10 Greatest U.S. Digital Media M&A Deals Of All Time | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo.
Back in November 2006, I published the Top 10 Greatest Internet Digital Media M&A Deals of All Time. It included eBay’s $1.5 billion acquisition of Pa... |
| May 26, 2011 | Four tests to test for a good startup idea | Fundamental tests to help you determine whether to take the plunge
Everyone has a few ideas for a startup company. But how do you know if this is the one big idea you should do? There are hundreds of questions along the way, but these four ... |
| May 15, 2011 | Failure is experience on the way to success | At Google we say, 'Achieving 65% of the impossible is better than 100% of the ordinary'
Failure gets a bad rap. It is actually an important element of success. When I speak at conferences around the world, I say "In America, we don't u... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Healthcare arrives at SXSW (Morning Read) | SeeMyRadiology
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Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the Wo... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | Seed-stage investment bubble? | Not really. Investment is down and so is the average investment per deal
Is there a bubble in seed stage investing? Critics point to Twitter raising $200M at a $3.7B valuation, and Facebook being valued at $35 Billion, or Groupon at $6B val... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Hiring a big company exec for your startup? | Fast-growing startups don't need experienced CEOs to run their company
Fast growing startups need experienced big company execs to take them to the next level, right? Wrong. Big company execs are wired differently than startup ninjas. My la... |
| Oct 31, 2010 | Are You A Pirate? | I read blog posts by Don Dodge and Glenn Kelman today about people jumping from Google to Facebook and it got me thinking about entrepreneurs.
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they ha... |
| Oct 3, 2010 | Napster 10 years later | Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker changed the world, and they're just 29 and 30-years-old
Ten years ago in October, Shawn Fanning, co-founder of Napster, was on the cover of Time Magazine. Today, Sean Parker, the other co-founder of Napster, is... |
| Oct 2, 2010 | How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today | Remember three years ago, when Microsoft paid a quarter-billion dollars for 1.6% of Facebook and the exclusive right to run banner ads across Facebook.com? Tell the truth, how many of you thought that was a killer business decision? I can’t... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | Google Fights Back In Battle For Talent, But May Be Creating A Worse Problem For Itself | Earlier this month I wrote about the extraordinary steps Google is taking to retain talent. It doesn’t seem like such a big problem – after all LinkedIn is only tracking 118 (well, it’s 120 now) former Google employees now at Facebook. But ... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | TechStars Launches 11 New Startups In Boulder | Editor’s note: The following report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing and is a Developer Advocate for Google. TechStars is a seed accelerator program that selects about ten companies a year and provides fund... |
| Jun 18, 2010 | Working at Google - the first six months | So what's the difference working at Google vs Microsoft?
So, what is it like working at Google? How is it different than working at Microsoft? I have answered that question at least 500 times in the past 6 months, so I thought I should writ... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | How to be an angel investor... and make money | Attributes of success - founders are awesome, growing market, excellent tech, experienced investors
Angel Investors are a special breed. They take on the riskiest investments at the earliest stage where VCs will not engage. That’s why they ... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | TechStars Boston Graduates Ten New Startups In 2010 | Editor’s note: The following report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing and is a Developer Advocate for Google. TechStars is a seed accelerator program that selects about ten companies and provides funding of ... |
| Apr 7, 2010 | Announcing First 3 Mobile Summit Sponsors | Excitement is building for our upcoming Mobile Summit – May 7th at the Computer History Museum. Get ready to explore, think and create the future of Mobile! As in our last event, The Real-Time Web Summit, it will be you – the attendees – wh... |
| Mar 18, 2010 | Google Offers Tool To Ditch Microsoft Exchange | News Google Offers Tool To Ditch Microsoft Exchange By Kurt MackieMarch 18, 2010
Google has taken another step toward making it easier for IT departments to abandon Microsoft Exchange for Google Apps.
On Wednesday, the company announced a n... |
| Mar 18, 2010 | Google Offers Tool To Ditch Microsoft Exchange | News Google Offers Tool To Ditch Microsoft Exchange By Kurt MackieMarch 18, 2010
Google has taken another step toward making it easier for IT departments to abandon Microsoft Exchange for Google Apps.
On Wednesday, the company announced a n... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Lost: If Microsofties Can't Live Together, Microsoft May Die Alone | There’s a very interesting op-ed piece in The New York Times today entitled Microsoft’s Creative Destruction. In it, the author details what he feels are the reasons that Microsoft has failed to innovate at the same pace as their competitor... |
| Feb 3, 2010 | Don Dodge: The new anti-Microsoft evangelist | Somebody at Microsoft should be fired for laying off Don Dodge. The list of reasons why his layoff was stupid gets longer by the day. Yesterday's Dodge blog post, "From MSFT evangelist to Mac enthusiast -- the other side of the road,&q... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Former Microsoft evangelist Don Dodge joins Google, discovers Gmail | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Don Dodge, the Microsoft startup evangelist whose... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Former Microsoft evangelist Don Dodge joins Google, discovers Gmail | Don Dodge, the Microsoft startup evangelist whose layoff earlier this month was much-bemoaned in the tech community, has landed on his feet, and then some. He has accepted a new job at Google, where it sounds like he’ll be occupying a role ... |
| Nov 10, 2009 | Don Dodge Weighs In On Leaving Microsoft, What’s Next, and Friends Old and New | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It was big news here in New England last week when Don Dodge announced on his blog that he had been laid off from Microsoft as part of some 800 layoffs at the software powerho... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Microsoft Dumps Don Dodge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Don Dodge, admired by many technology entrepreneurs as Microsoft’s enthusiastic ambassador to the startup world, is one of those swept up in today’s big round of layoffs at th... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Microsoft Loses Don Dodge. This Is A Huge Mistake | Among the 800 or so employees laid off by Microsoft today: Don Dodge, Microsoft’s Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team, reporting to VP Dan’l Lewin. Don writes about the change on his personal blog.
All layoffs su... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Microsoft confirms another 800 job cuts | reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating
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| Sep 11, 2009 | TechStars’ First Class of Boston Startups Launched at Microsoft-Hosted Gala | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One of the big tickets in town last night for the tech startup community was the TechStars Investor Evening at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center in Cambr... |
| Sep 9, 2009 | CEOs to Follow on Twitter, What Tweaks VCs, What Entrepreneurs Should Copy, Making Cleantech Pay, & Other Recent Boston Blog Posts to Peruse | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Coming out of the long weekend, with summer vacations over, I can feel the pace of entrepreneurial action quicken. With a lot of people out of town or chillin’ the past few we... |
| Jun 29, 2009 | Why fast followers beat first movers | Better business model, better marketing, better timing, better management
Innovation drives our industry, attracts the best talent, attracts VC money, and wins fame for its leaders. Innovation leaders burst onto the scene, win early market ... |
| May 28, 2009 | How to use Twitter effectively | Guy Kawasaki calls it the most powerful marketing tool invented since TV
Can you communicate anything useful in 140 characters? I admit, I didn’t get Twitter at first. I am a blogger and enjoy long-form writing, analysis, charts, links to r... |
| May 26, 2009 | Newspapers lose $9.6 bln in ads | ... but they gain $3.1 bln in online ads Newspapers have been hit by a perfect storm; classified ads devastated by Monster.com and craigslist, and an economic recession that has reduced all forms of advertising. Cnet reports on a report fro... |
| May 18, 2009 | Vulture Capitalists To Gather In Boston | Hide the women and children, and any stock you hold dear in your Internet start-up.
The Venture Summit East is starting up on Tuesday, which will be graced by such luminaries of the Sand Hill Road Gang as Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvets... |
| Sep 17, 2008 | Boston VCs: Counting the Billions of Dollars Raised | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is a revised version of an essay that Microsoft’s Don Dodge published today in his personal blog and contributed simultaneously to Xconomy.
Commonwealth Capital Ventures ... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | After Cuil, Blekko Will Be More Careful – But Does It Matter? | My first post for ReadWriteWeb, just over 1 year ago, started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only space left was (re)search – what users do after the basic search.
None of the search start-ups sinc... |
| Jul 17, 2008 | Newspapers take notice - Blogs are the future | Opinion and commentary are replacing "just the facts" reporting
Blogs are going professional and replacing newspapers for insightful, fast breaking, news and analysis. The same thing happened to network TV news years ago. Chris Ma... |
| Jun 30, 2008 | Microsoft Goes Forward Into the Past | With the departure of Bill Gates, it's tempting to call it the end of an era at Microsoft -- except it isn't. There is no real past at Microsoft. For all of its more and less successful forays into game consoles, PC games, the TV industry, ... |
| Jun 25, 2008 | Does Web 2.0 = Bubble 2.0? | All booms eventually go bust
Web 2.0 will too, but, as I wrote last year, this time it will be different. The boom companies aren't publicly traded stocks like they were in 1999, they are VC backed companies. VCs are very experienced at han... |
| Jun 2, 2008 | The Future Of Social Isn't Content Spewing (I Hope) | A conversation broke out today on the future of social media.
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson says his vision for the future of social media is very simply “every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of way... |
| May 28, 2008 | Discussing Web 2.0 | There are two web 2.0’s.
There’s the mantra that has come to define the second "up move" of the Internet. Every run needs a name and this one has been called web 2.0. That’s nice enough and if this run comes to an end, and surely ... |
| May 22, 2008 | The Executive Bloggers of Boston | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Cluetrain Manifesto, the classic book on how the Internet has changed the way consumers relate to corporations, was published in 1999. The word “blog” appears nowhere in i... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Where Have All the Bold VCs Gone? | As startups become cheaper to launch, more and more venture capitalists are finding themselves left out in the cold. Either angel investors are beating them to the punch in funding new startups, or Google buys them before any VC even gets t... |
| Jan 2, 2008 | The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko | Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career – taking on Google. In search.
Skrenta le... |
| Nov 20, 2007 | Thank You For Coming to TechCrunch MeetUp 11 with IDG Ventures Boston | Last week was my first TechCrunch MeetUp in Boston. We took over a club called the Estate right near the Boston Common. About 800 people came, and I think I talked to half of them. Mike was regaling the other half. And our CEO Heather, who ... |
| Nov 3, 2007 | Why Facebook Shouldn’t Fear OpenSocial | Google’s OpenSocial has caused quite a stir over the past week. With support from MySpace, Hi5, Ning, LinkedIn, SalesForce, Friendster and a number of other large social networks, many have wondered if OpenSocial might deal a large blow to ... |
| Aug 26, 2007 | The Web is Alive and Well (But on a Stable and Boring Platform) | Mark Cuban says the Internet is dead and boring, but Fred Wilson says it isn’t for him! Who’s right? Well, both of them. Let me quickly explain (before you get bored with what is actually a fairly pointless argument). Cuban wrote:
“Some peo... |
| Aug 17, 2007 | TechStars Demo Day – Class of 2007 | Y Combinator wasn’t the only incubator to demo their most recent startups today. Colorado-based TechStars also brought their startups on stage – ten of them – to give the audience a first look at what they’ve been up to all summer. Each sta... |
| Aug 15, 2007 | Google Lends Credibility To Sun StarOffice | Google has officially begun distributing office suite and Microsoft Office competitor Sun StarOffice as part of the Google Pack.
The proprietary office suite is based on the same code base as Open Office and was previously offered for $70.
... |
| Aug 13, 2007 | Y Combinator | A Y Combinator is a mathematical trick that provides a way to do recursions without the need to define symbols and therefore is a way of performing recursions with anonymous functions. I learned that from Paul Graham last Thursday at Y Comb... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | Competing With Google Search | In a previous
article, we explained that the pivot of the internet is shifting from search to
social interactions. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that search is losing its value.
After all, don’t we still live with previous paradigms lik... |
| Jul 2, 2007 | Universal Not Renewing Annual iTunes Contract | Major press sources including The New York Times this morning are citing anonymous executives reportedly with direct involvement in negotiations, as saying Universal Music Group has opted not to renew its annual contract with Apple's iTunes... |
| Jun 4, 2007 | Major Relaunch For Ask: Ask3D | Forget the advertising campaign debacle: There is some real news about Ask.com tonight.
The search engine, which is currently the fourth most used search service, is publicly re-launching tonight around 9 PM PST. You won’t see this when vis... |
| May 26, 2007 | Google Making $1 Per Internet User | Check out Don Dodge’s recent article, entitled ‘Why 1% of search market share is worth over $1 Billion’. His math concludes that each search query produces $0.12 ad revenue, which gives a value of $1B for just 1% of total search market shar... |
| May 15, 2007 | Google’s Potential Vulnerability – An Open Ad Network | Robert Scoble recently wrote an interesting post, about FOG – Fear of Google (an acronym coined by CEO of eMarketer Geoff Ramsey). I observed this phenomenon strongly first hand at the Web 2.0 Expo and shared my thoughts on it in the R/WW p... |
| May 7, 2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| Mar 21, 2007 | Google AdSense Beta to Apply Direct Sales Model to Advertising | In Dell Computer's revolutionary direct sales model, which altered the evolution of American business, component parts for building customer orders were purchased at or near the time of the order, reducing to near-zero inventory on hand and... |
| Mar 4, 2007 | Poll: Should a newspaper be a social network? | The title of this week’s poll is taken straight from Matthew
Ingram’s post about USA
Today’s re-design. The new-look USA Today incorporates many of the social
networking features that have become popular over the last year or so. Or as
the ... |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Your social network at Ning, join the thousands | Ning, the Palo Alto start-up, has relaunched to let you build your own full-fledged social network.
Ning announced the launch three days ago, and since then, users have created 5,000 new networks, chief executive Gina Bianchini tells us — t... |
| Feb 12, 2007 | PowerHype At Powerset | The more I dig into the new search engine startup Powerset the more I am wondering if it is nothing more than a house of cards. They’re an odd company with a bit of a split personality. For example, in some ways they are very secretive – ev... |
| Dec 22, 2006 | Is Microsoft Attempting to Patent RSS? | According to patent applications recently made public, it now appears that shortly before Microsoft publicly announced integrated RSS support within Internet Explorer and Windows Vista, it filed for two patents with the US Patent and Tradem... |
| Dec 22, 2006 | Because The Patent System Sucks, The Only Thing To Do Is File For More Bad Patents | Another day, another batch of patent lunacy. People keep asking us to comment on yesterday’s story about Microsoft applying for two patents around RSS technology. The two patent applications, one for a content syndication platform and the o... |
| Nov 1, 2006 | Is it bye bye Microsoft or just au revoir? | Due to the nature of TechCrunch (UK), I am forever installing and uninstalling beta software, therefore it was only a matter of time before my Media Center PC crashed. Luckily I only lost a few days worth of work which I had not backed up. ... |
| Aug 27, 2006 | Web Office update – Google and Zoho make moves | Lately
there’s been an increasing buzz about Web Office, something which I’ve been writing about
for some time now. Red Herring magazine wrote an article with the provocative headline 17 MS
Office Killers. While it would be quite a story if... |
| May 23, 2006 | Microsoft acquisitions and product strategies | The Microsoft VC Summit
2006 happened a week or two ago, but I’ve only just had a chance to review the posts that
came out of it. If you’re interested in where Microsoft is headed with its product range
and general Web strategy, there are s... |
| Feb 3, 2006 | Is Megite a Contender? | Megite has been getting some attention on the Web 2.0 Workgroup email list as possibly the first company to be able to group blogging conversations as well as Memeorandum (profiles). The site is very rough design-wise, but is grouping thing... |
| Oct 17, 2005 | Web 2.0 companies eclipsing 1.0 companies | Microsoft Emerging Business Team member Don Dodge has another thought-provoking post on Internet business. Don notes how so many innovative companies who were market leaders in the 90’s have been overtaken by the new era of “fast followers”... |
| Oct 11, 2005 | Acquisitions 101 | To all those Web 2.0 companies looking to get acquired by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! or eBay, Don Dodge has handily compiled a list of tips. Don works on the Microsoft Emerging Business Team.
In his latest post he starts by noting Microsoft’... |
| Healthcare arrives at SXSW (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry.
Healthcare at SXSW. SXSW is the arts-and-music-and-technology cutting-edge hipster showcase. This year, the medical industry found a place at ... |