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| Sep 24, 2025 | A big Realtors settlement could have led to lower agent commissions. They haven’t changed | When Eric Itakura listed his Mountain View, California, condo last year, he hoped to save some money on commissions.
The rules over how agents’ fees are set had recently been rewritten as part of a landmark settlement reached between the Na... |
| Jun 19, 2025 | The Tug of War in Real Estate: Who Really Wins? | The real estate market is a battlefield. On one side, you have Zillow and Redfin, waving the flag of transparency. On the other, Compass is pushing for a new way to sell homes. But who is really fighting for the buyers and sellers? Zillow a... |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Zillow says it’s fighting for buyers. Compass says it’s fighting for sellers. What if neither is fighting for you? | Zillow and Redfin say they are for transparency in the market, which is good for both homebuyers and sellers. The only way to know a home’s true price, they argue, is to advertise it as broadly as possible.
But Brian Boero, chief executive ... |
| Oct 11, 2024 | Commentary: US vice presidential nominee JD Vance articulates Trump’s policies better than Trump himself | Listen to this article
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| Oct 9, 2024 | Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian tech workers | In what might be viewed as reverse discrimination, Cognizant, a New Jersey-based outsourcing firm that provides thousands of workers to Silicon Valley’s tech industry and other Bay Area companies, was found guilty of discriminating against ... |
| Sep 12, 2024 | California Politicians Embarrass Themselves By Calling For ‘Warning Labels’ On Social Media | Can we add a warning label to the First Amendment that says “Actually reading this can cause extreme embarrassment to grandstanding politicians”?
California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, has just lost two separate cases in the Ninth Circuit ... |
| Jun 11, 2024 | CodeBase Relaunches CodeClan | CodeBase is relaunching CodeClan, the digital skills academy, with three Scottish colleges and a Silicon Valley teaching programme for coding.
The pilot with Edinburgh College, Borders College, and West Lothian College, is set to commence t... |
| May 29, 2024 | 10 TV Shows Every Entrepreneur Should Watch on Netflix Have some free time on your hands? Get into one of these series. | |
| May 22, 2024 | Electric School Buses Boost Health and Savings in US Study | By Quincy Jon
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| May 20, 2024 | AI Safety Institute releases LLM safety results | The UK Government's Institute for AI Safety has published its first AI testing results. Five leading models were screened to assess their cyber, chemical, biological agent capabilities and the effectiveness of safeguards.
The institute has ... |
| Apr 19, 2024 | Meet the Founder: Neatleaf’s Elmar Mair discusses the critical role of autonomy in ag: “It takes a lot of anxiety out of cultivation” | Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Neatleaf.
As AgFunder partner Tom Shields recently wrote, it’s time to take greenhouses into the next era, where we’ll need to “optimize yield and reduce costs. To do tha... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Avaya ENGAGE® 2024 announces guest speakers for its conference | Avaya, a global leader in customer experience and communications solutions, announced the guest speakers and new interactive experiences at Avaya ENGAGE®─ the premier event where CX-savvy customers converge to discover how Avaya and its glo... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | ‘A Brief History of the Future’ offers a hopeful antidote to cynical tech takes | Cynicism is a quality taken almost for granted in tech journalism, and certainly we are as guilty as the next publication. But both the risk and the promise of technology are real, and a new documentary series tries to emphasize the latter ... |
| Mar 26, 2024 | MarTech Interview with Abhay Singhal, Co-founder, InMobi and CEO of InMobi Advertising Platform | 1. Kindly brief us about yourself and your journey as Co-founder, InMobi and CEO of InMobi Advertising Platform.
I come from a humble background in a small northern Indian town. Raised in a middle-class family where conventional and reliabl... |
| Mar 25, 2024 | It pays to have rich friends — and whether you have them depends a lot on where you live | Economy It pays to have rich friends — and whether you have them depends a lot on where you live
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| Mar 15, 2024 | 4 of the most competitive rental markets in the country added virtually no new apartments in 2023. It shows the housing crisis isn't going away. | Economy 4 of the most competitive rental markets in the country added virtually no new apartments in 2023. It shows the housing crisis isn't going away.
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| Dec 26, 2023 | (Не) безопасный дайджест New Year Edition: презентация секретов, мстительные сотрудники и случайная утечка | Традиционно в канун Нового года и Рождества мы просим наших аналитиков поделиться самыми запоминающимися инцидентами уходящего года. Итак, в финальном дайджесте 2023 года рассказываем о краже корпоративных секретов, мнимых тружениках, утечк... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | Made at Intel. Окаянные дни — начало | Часть 1 >> Часть 2 >> Часть 3 >> Часть 4 >> Часть 5 >> Часть 6 >> Часть 7 >> Часть 8 >> Часть 9 >> Часть 10 >> Часть 11 >> Часть 12 >> Часть 13 >> Часть 14 >&g... |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Apple обязана выплатить $500 млн по делу о замедлении работы iPhone | Anonymous 15 августа 2023, 15:34 Apple обязана выплатить $500 млн по делу о замедлении работы iPhone
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| Jun 27, 2023 | Silicon Valley: The Mecca for Venture Capital May Be Cooling on Crypto | Silicon Valley was the second-highest ranked U.S. hub in CoinDesk's Crypto Hubs 2023. Several of the eight criteria were measured on a national basis, so all the U.S. hubs were hampered by a middling crypto regulatory score, a drivers crite... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Ford lifts the hood on its EV business, Turo updates its IPO filing and Waymo releases a safety case for AVs | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| Jan 4, 2023 | Cooler Master Expands Gaming Peripherals Line: MK770 Keyboard, MM712 Mouse, More | Andi C., Tech Times 04 January 2023, 07:01 pm
Cooler Master showcases its new line of gaming peripherals as it ventures toward a new market of gamers.
With a variety of new lights, mics, keyboards, and headphones, Cooler Master is pushing b... |
| Oct 23, 2022 | The Big Tech layoffs you won't hear about: How the shift to remote work is leaving Meta janitors and bus drivers jobless | More than 100 shuttle-bus staff contracted by Meta (formerly Facebook) are being let go, records show.
Meta said it's adjusting transportation services "to better reflect the needs" of its hybrid workforce.
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| Oct 21, 2022 | An ominous warning for California economy | Economic warning signs are mounting in California — foreshadowing potentially tough budget decisions for the state officials and policymakers who emerge victorious from the Nov. 8 election.
One particularly eye-popping statistic: Just nine ... |
| Sep 29, 2022 | California food delivery start-up slammed with $140,000 fine for violating child labor laws by employing underage drivers | Locale co-founder Chris Clark says the company did their best to keep up with the company's growth as friends and family stepped in to fulfill orders. Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images
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| Mar 19, 2022 | Former Apple Employee Allegedly Defrauded $10 Million Out of Apple After Working There from 2008 to 2018 | Urian B., Tech Times 19 March 2022, 02:03 pm
Apple has reportedly been defrauded out of $10 million by one of its former employees. The federal authorities reported the news that the fraud made use of his supply chain buyer position to gain... |
| Oct 12, 2021 | Основатель code.org рассказал о своей «стыдной» провальной сделке с Джобсом | Инна Бондарович 12 октября 2021, 16:04 Основатель code.org рассказал о своей «стыдной» провальной сделке с Джобсом
На прошлой неделе в десятую годовщину со дня смерти Стива Джобса в соцсетях и СМИ активно вспоминали основателя Apple. В ам... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | First Theranos patient takes the stand, defense begins to shift blame onto Sunny Balwani | Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (center) arrives at federal court in San Jose, California on Aug. 31, 2021. [Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images]A former Theranos patient took the stand at Elizabeth Holmes’ federal fraud... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Apple is Preparing to begin Construction Activities at its North San Jose Office Campus with a Portion devoted to Affordable Housing
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| Jun 12, 2020 | High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach | Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has filled social media feeds. Meanwhile, police surveillance of protesters has remained la... |
| Feb 11, 2020 | The engineers behind Google’s Bookbot have launched a delivery robot startup | The engineers behind Google’s short-lived Bookbot — a robot created within the company’s Area 120 incubator for experimental products — have launched their own startup to bring the sidewalk delivery bot back to life.
The secretive startup c... |
| Nov 7, 2019 | Judge orders FDA, CMS to produce missing documents in Theranos case | Elizabeth Holmes back during her black turtleneck days at Theranos — in 2014 [Photo by Max Morse for TechCrunch TechCrunch – TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2014, CC BY 2.0]A federal judge has ordered the FDA and the Centers for Medicare &... |
| Nov 5, 2019 | Former Theranos CEO wrangles with FDA over missing emails | Elizabeth Holmes back during her black turtleneck days at Theranos — in 2014 [Photo by Max Morse for TechCrunch TechCrunch – TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2014, CC BY 2.0]As she prepares to face a criminal trial over federal wire fraud c... |
| Jul 31, 2019 | Cloudflare Said To Pursue September IPO, We Say Heck Yes | 60 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: Cloudflare is reportedly going public this year, meaning that we have at least two big-name IPOs left in the tank.
News broke yesterday that Cloudflare, an Internet security and con... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | Stanford University Unveils Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence | Stanford University has announced a new institute designed for studying, guiding, and developing human-centered artificial intelligence technologies called the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). HAI’s missi... |
| May 23, 2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, May 23 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Wednesday, May 23.
Foxconn Industrial Internet is seeking a $4.3 billion IPO. Apple supplier and a subsidiary of the world’s largest contract manufacturer Foxconn,... |
| Jan 19, 2017 | Fragrances, video walls and “cafes”: Is this the new breed of bank branches? | Banking institutions around the world continue to grapple with technological disruption and changing customer behaviour, but some are choosing to meet these challenges head on by reinventing what a humble bank branch looks like—and what it ... |
| Aug 25, 2016 | Uber & Lyft As An Extension Of… Or Replacement For… Public Transit | Lyft just announced an interesting partnership with MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority to basically help get more people to and from MARTA stations. It’s an interesting approach to try to help make public transit more c... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Stanford Judge Allowed Sexy Photos in Court to Disprove Plaintiff's PTSD | Aaron Persky, the judge who sentenced Stanford athlete Brock Turner to a mere six months in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on a sidewalk, was also at the helm of a controversial gang rape la... |
| May 30, 2016 | How I moved my startup from San Francisco to San Diego | Andrew Gazdecki Contributor
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| May 16, 2016 | San Francisco Climate Tax Raises Questions About Tech’s Carbon Footprint | Every San Francisco homeowner might soon have to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to being green—and citizens are wondering whether Silicon Valley's tech giants are paying their fair share to save the local environment.
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| Nov 27, 2015 | Nordicmade.org showcases the Nordic startup ecosystem | NordicMade.org brings together the disparate grassroots movements in the Nordic startup community. Hashtag communities such as this have sprung up over the past few years to help promote entrepreneurship ecosystems.
The purpose of Nordic M... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Here’s A Detailed Breakdown Of Racial And Gender Diversity Data Across U.S. Venture Capital Firms | Chamath Palihapitiya, the opinionated venture capitalist who once got into a public spat with Ron Conway over income inequality and challenged founders to have the “courage to move to Oakland” a few weeks ago, has catalogued detailed racial... |
| Aug 23, 2015 | There Is No Silicon Valley Crash Coming — For A While | John Rampton Contributor
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| Aug 31, 2014 | This Labor Day, Reflect On Diversity And The Future | 2014 is the year that work became a central point of discussion in Silicon Valley. For the engineers and knowledge workers in the region, issues of diversity and inclusion finally got their turn in the limelight, forcing us to question our ... |
| Jul 16, 2014 | Yahoo Exec Accused Of Sexual Harassment Files Defamation Counter-Suit | Prominent Yahoo executive Maria Zhang filed a defamation complaint Wednesday against a former female employee who sued her for sexual harassment and subsequent wrongful termination. In her filing, Zhang called Nan Shi’s allegations — that s... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Mobile Devices with Nickel including Apple's iPad may cause Mild Rashes
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| Jul 11, 2014 | Female Yahoo exec sued by ex-employee for sexual harassment | A high-ranking executive at Yahoo is being sued by an ex-employee on charges of sexual harassment, reports the San Jose Mercury News Friday afternoon.
The high-ranking executive being accused, Maria Zhang, plays a key role in Yahoo’s mobile... |
| Apr 5, 2014 | Samsung's Big Strategic Point at Trial about Apple Declaring a Holy War on Google Fizzles under Scrutiny
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The San Jose Mercury Press, blogging daily from the California court house about the Apple-Samsung patent trial, noted Samsung's lawyer highlighting a 2010 email from S... |
| Jul 15, 2013 | Booting Up: Fab.com Dumps Daily Emails, Is Netflix the New HBO? | The new, new Fab.com
Fab has axed its daily email blast and instead users can now “follow” designers or things they like on a Pinterest-esque board. Maybe that’ll help! [TechCrunch]
Apple is “aggressively” hiring for its iWatch device, whic... |
| Jul 15, 2013 | Google delaying development of new campus | Google signed a 40-year lease from NASA in 2008 to build new headquarters
Don't worry: Google is still going to be buiding a new campus in Mountain View, California. It just might take a little longer than originally expected.
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| Jul 13, 2013 | Google delays new campus for up to a year | Google has delayed its plan to build a new campus in Silicon Valley as it tries to improve the design of the massive complex.
The construction will be delayed by six months to a year, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News. The ... |
| Jul 13, 2013 | Google delays new campus for up to a year | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google has delayed its plan to build a new campus in Silicon Valley as it tries to improve the design of the massive complex.
The const... |
| Apr 9, 2013 | Tesla’s media strategy: build a brand without spending on advertising | It has been quite a week for Tesla Motors (TSLA). The Palo Alto-based electric car company reported that it reached profitability for the first time, saw its stock close at an all-time high, unveiled a new financing program and ce... |
| Nov 26, 2012 | Maybe Don’t Tweet About Your Insider Trading Because the FBI Is Watching | Like this but minus all the aliens and sewer monsters.
If you work at a hedge fund and perhaps do a bit of light insider trading to fund your daughter’s equestrian extracurriculars, you might want to be careful about what you’re posting on ... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Veterans Find Jobs, and New Mission, in Cleantech | |
| Nov 11, 2012 | Will Silicon Valley keep watching Bravo’s Start-ups Silicon Valley reality show? (poll) | 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!
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| Nov 11, 2012 | Will Silicon Valley keep watching Bravo’s Start-ups Silicon Valley reality show? (poll) | So the second episode of Bravo’s reality TV show, Start-ups Silicon Valley, airs Monday at 10pm. Will Silicon Valley keep watching as a guilty pleasure or just tune it out as an unreality show?
I watched last week’s premiere (and Christina ... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Flip Video co-founder unveils new e-learning company, Knowmia (YC S12) | On Tuesday, Flip’s other co-founder will unveil a somewhat meatier startup: Knowmia, which CEO Ariel Braunstein says will help parents cut down on the high cost of tutoring.
“There’s something magic that happens when a teacher and a studen... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | California Legalizes Some Texting While Driving, Sort Of | A few years ago, California outlawed texting while driving. On the whole, this is one of those things that certainly seems like a good idea. I’m still amazed that anyone — law or no law — thinks that texting while driving is a reasonable th... |
| Jul 15, 2012 | Tim Cook leads Bay Area CEOs in pay | Apple has the biggest market value of any tech company, so it’s no surprise that Apple chief executive Tim Cook has become the highest-paid CEO at a publicly traded company in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Cook beat out Larry Ellison ($77.5 m... |
| Nov 27, 2011 | For venture investing, will 2012 look more like 2008 than 2011? (poll) | 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!
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| Apr 17, 2011 | SV150 shows Silicon Valley recovery is in full swing — for big companies | Silicon Valley’s top 150 public companies saw their most profitable year in history as they put the big recession behind them in 2010, according to the San Jose Mercury News’ annual SV150 report published Sunday.
The Merc’s list showed that... |
| Mar 26, 2011 | Silicon Valley is abuzz with bubble and recovery stories — too soon? | The bulls are back in Silicon Valley in a variety of ways. Let’s hope reports of the recovery are true and that the optimism doesn’t get overheated too fast and turn into a bubble of the dot-com era’s scale.
The front pages of the San Jose ... |
| Aug 17, 2010 | Apple roundup: China Unicom gets iPhone 4, latest on kickback case, patent on slide to unlock | Apple is making news around the globe. Today, rumors surfaced that China Unicom will get the iPhone 4 for launch in China early next month. An Apple manager accused of accepting kickbacks from suppliers in Asia in exchange for confidential ... |
| Aug 17, 2010 | Apple roundup: China Unicom gets iPhone 4, latest on kickback case, patent on slide to unlock | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple is making news around the globe. Today, rumors surfaced that China Unicom will get the iPhone 4 for launch in China early next mo... |
| Aug 14, 2010 | Apple manager arrested for taking $1M in kickbacks from suppliers | This is one of those great gigs of the modern iPhone era, until you get caught. A mid-level Apple manager was arrested on Friday for allegedly taking $1 million in kickbacks from Asian suppliers for the iPhone and iPod, according to a publi... |
| Dec 4, 2009 | FTC expands antitrust investigation to cover Intel’s conflict with Nvidia | Even with the settlement of Advanced Micro Devices’ antitrust lawsuit, Intel still faces scrutiny for alleged anticompetitive behavior. A new report suggests that the Federal Trade Commission has widened its investigation to include Intel’s... |
| Oct 8, 2009 | Is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce corrupt? And why it matters | 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!
It’s been a remarkable few days for the U.S. Cham... |
| Oct 8, 2009 | Is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce corrupt? And why it matters | It’s been a remarkable few days for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 3 million-member business federation that says it spends more money on lobbying than any other organization in the U.S.
When the Chamber recently took a strong stance aga... |
| Apr 13, 2009 | Venture capital shrivels 40 percent — It really is the end of the tech boom | There’s no mistaking it. The richest era of internet boom, the early part of what has been called the “greatest creation of legal wealth in the history of mankind,” has played itself out.
Today’s data, which shows that investment into U.S. ... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Roundup: PG&E installs smart meters, Stewart cows Cramer, the market seesaws and more | MySpace Events get an upgrade — The network’s new event invite system takes more advantage of users’ social circles. TechCrunch has more.
PG&E smart meters get the green light — The utility will spend $467 million in taxpayer money to i... |
| Feb 2, 2009 | MedCity morning read, Monday, Feb. 2 | The news for the region may not be as bad as it sounds. The story reported that grants to small businesses had dropped by 50 percent. But, actually, those grants have held steady. In 2008, the region received almost $13.3 million in Small ... |
| 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... |
| Aug 6, 2008 | Huge correction: More opposition to Yahoo's Yang than first tabulated | In an error literally akin to finding the "0" key stuck on your typewriter, a major securities service admitted it had problems adding values ranging into the hundreds of millions, in its tabulation of Yahoo shareholder votes last... |
| Jul 18, 2008 | Why Silicon Valley Should Stop Worrying â€" and Get Busy | You can feel the panic slowly build in Silicon Valley: chests tightening as people vainly fight for breath, fearful glancing about, looking for a way out. Movers and shakers are trying to brace themselves for a crash of reality. Unfortunate... |
| Jun 26, 2008 | Despite 'smoking gun,' ConnectU must settle with Facebook | The college rivalry cum legal brawl between ConnectU and Facebook that resulted in a settlement in April, has now been enforced by a California District Court judge.
As Harvard students, the Winklevoss brothers, Divya Narendra, and Facebook... |
| Jun 6, 2008 | ConnectU Wants Out Of Its Settlement With Facebook; Wants To Sue Again | Earlier this year, we were disappointed to see Facebook agree to settle with ConnectU. ConnectU was another wannabe social network that Mark Zuckerberg worked for briefly before going off to found Facebook. The brothers behind ConnectU were... |
| May 5, 2008 | Fididel launches live-negotiation auction business | Fididel is new kind of auction site that aims to draw in buyers and sellers who aren’t happy with the lack of real-time negotiation on sites such as eBay or Priceline.com. The site gives buyers and sellers the ability to chat in real-time a... |
| May 1, 2008 | Roundup: KKR goes green, Sun reports a loss, RIAA chases co-eds | Private equity firm teams up with environmentalists: Green really does mean green, as in money, these days. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has teamed up with the Environmental Defense Fund to create a “green portfolio” partnership of companies tha... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Fallout From Alcatel-Lucent's Patent Nuclear War With Microsoft Continues | Part of the conventional wisdom in having tech companies apply for lots of patents is that they’re helpful as a “defensive” mechanism against other companies filing patent lawsuits against you. It’s the nuclear stockpiling argument that sug... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Microsoft Must Pay $140 Million For Using Multiple Passwords To Activate Its Software | Another day, another problematic patent ruling. Microsoft now needs to pay $140 million for violating a patent on using two or more passwords to protect against unauthorized use of a piece of software. Yes, someone actually got a patent on ... |
| Sep 11, 2007 | Roundup: AjaxWindows, Lemonade, MobiBucks, “racetrack” memory and more | Summary:
*AjaxWindows offers operating system in the browser
*IBM researcher says “racetrack memory” could unseat flash
*Noise reducing headset Jawbone wins backing from Sequoia
*Lemonade, latest company to offer online kiosks
*Adobe previe... |
| Aug 24, 2007 | Friday afternoon Apple links, now with more Woz | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jun 6, 2007 | Internet Companies Push For Mobile Phone Carriers to Open Up | In the US mobile phone carriers run closed networks: my Samsung phone will only run on the Verizon network, and if I switch to another carrier, the applications I bought over Verizon’s service won’t come with me. This set up has big Interne... |
| May 22, 2007 | Google invests in biotech company, 23andme, to form genetic database | Updated
In one of the more eye-opening investment moves we’ve seen lately, Google has invested $3.9 million into a biotech company run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s new wife.
VentureBeat’s life sciences blogger, David Hamilton, who for... |
| May 22, 2007 | Cisco buys IP-based video surveillance company, BroadWare | Updated
Cisco Systems has agreed to buy BroadWare Technologies, a Santa Clara, Calif., provider of IP-based video surveillance software.
The deal amount was undisclosed. (Update: The Mercury News has a story about the nascent trend in the s... |
| Mar 21, 2007 | Appeals Court Tells Minnesota, Yet Again, That It Cannot Tax VoIP | Regulators in Minnesota are nothing if not persistent. In 2003, government officials were upset that they were losing tax revenue as people switched from telephone services to VoIP services like Vonage. While telecom services are clearly re... |
| Mar 15, 2007 | Bring back the Dutch Auction IPO | Broadband router company BigBand went public today, and its stock rose 33 percent on its first day of trading, which everyone said was a good thing.
Scott Sweet, managing director of IPOBoutique.com said it was “particularly impressive.”
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| Jan 18, 2007 | Roundup: Genetics, Semel’s choke, Wikiseek, MySpace story and more | Round-up of the latest in Silicon Valley tech stuff:
Google-funded genetic start-up? — Anne Wojcicki, the biotech analyst who is reportedly engaged to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has co-founded a Mountain View personal genetics startup, ... |
| Jan 16, 2007 | Why Competing Successfully Is About A Lot More Than Just Copying The Technology | Last week, we kicked off quite the discussion following my post suggesting that Apple’s iPhone patents weren’t necessary. One of the commonly used arguments against that is that without the patents, others would simply copy Apple and there ... |
| Jan 5, 2007 | Making Sense Out Of Digital Music Sales Numbers | Now that we’ve jumped into 2007, we’re going to be seeing plenty of stories summarizing how different products or industries did in 2006, and it seems that the music industry is the first one out the door. Wasting no time at all, Nielsen So... |
| Jan 4, 2007 | Amazon.com Launches New Site To Compete With… Well, Amazon.com | If you read what we discuss about competition and innovation around here, it’s no surprise that we believe that a company that is simply resting on its laurels is going to eventually be in trouble. That’s why one of the most interesting thi... |
| Dec 18, 2006 | NYC Cabs Getting TV and Location Tracking | If you live in NYC like some of us, you know that cabs are nothing exciting. They’re just fast transportation (well, sometimes at least) from one point to another for when you’re drunk as a skunk. All that is about to change though, thanks ... |
| Dec 14, 2006 | Stumble Video, Seven, Panama, Skype 3.0, Venice Project & more | Here’s the latest round-up of Silicon Valley tech news:
Video launch of the day: Stumble Video — StumbleUpon, the site that lets you “stumble upon” other sites by offering up recommendations based on your perceived interests, has reportedly... |
| Dec 5, 2006 | Study Says No Cancer Link From Mobile Phones… But Don't Expect The Controversy To Die | The debate over whether cellphones cause cancer has been an endless game of scientific ping-pong, where a study will spring up supporting the conclusion, only to quickly be contradicted by a study that disagrees. A new Danish study tracked ... |
| Nov 14, 2006 | Government Study Determines That There's Porn Online | Remember how the government basically subpoenaed everyone they could possibly think of to get data to support their argument defending the constitutionality of the COPA (Child Online Protection Act)? Apparently, they used all of that data t... |
| Oct 26, 2006 | Politicians Mine Commercial Databases In Get Out The Vote Effort | It used to be that people were worried about all the data that the government collected on them, and would refer to things like “Big Brother.” However, more recently, with the rise of huge database companies and serious data collection and ... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | Believe It Or Not: TV Manufacturing Returning To The US | If you remember the history of the TV manufacturing industry, you’ll recall what a big scare it was when TV manufacturing completely abandoned the US for Japan (and, later, other parts of Asia). It generated a lot of fear in the US over the... |
