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| Apr 11, 2012 | Here’s the reality: Silicon Valley drama is too hot for TV | A clip lasting just seconds was enough to put the real people of Silicon Valley in a tizzy over a Bravo reality television show tentatively titled “Silicon Valley.”
The show, still in development, will chronicle the lives of five relative u... |
| May 15, 2009 | Roundup: Has Della got its groove back? Hulu, Google, etc. | Here’s the latest action:
Dell revises “Della,” its netbook marketing web site targeting women, after allegations of sexism — As Jezebel covers.
The once and future Valleywag — Owen Thomas (pictured right) is leaving to become editorial dir... |
| Mar 18, 2009 | SXSW – where everybody knows your Twitter name | “In the last two days I’ve had better conversations about the technology we’ve developed than I’ve had in the past 2 years in London.” So said one of the UK entrepreneurs on the Digital Mission to me while we shared beers in a bar at one of... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Jason Calacanis’ “Project A” is surprisingly compelling Mahalo Answers | Today, Jason Calacanis launches Mahalo Answers — the latest project from Mahalo, his “human powered search engine”. Mahalo Answers is a possibly clever cross between Yahoo’s free-wheeling Q&A bonanza at Yahoo Answers, and Google’s highl... |
| Dec 5, 2008 | Yahoo CEO short list, gets shorter | The search for a bold, new leader and turn-around artist continues...
It's been 2-1/2 weeks since Jerry Yang stepped down from his CEO post at Yahoo.
Since then, the blogosphere has been busy reporting, evaluating, predicting and basic... |
| Dec 4, 2008 | Facebook delays employee stock sale, citing recession | Facebook was planning to let its employees sell some of their stock in the company per an unconventional plan we discovered this summer. But that plan is now on hold; although, from what we hear it hasn’t been called off for good. Of course... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | A Pownce and a miss for social networking | Call it consolidation, call it the economy, call it what you like, but don't post your thoughts to Pownce. After the 15th, the social-networking site won't be there anymore.
Blogging juggernaut SixApart announced on Monday the ass... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | Microsoft Hires Yahoo Search Team Engineer | News Microsoft Hires Yahoo Search Team Engineer By Kurt MackieNovember 20, 2008 Microsoft is hiring a member of Yahoo's search team who is considered to be a key engineering asset. Sean Suchter, Yahoo's vice president of search te... |
| Nov 14, 2008 | Content filter CrowdSifter cleans up with $50K from former Sex.com owner | Someone is finally mobilizing the collective wisdom of the porn-viewing masses. Well, sort of. CrowdSifter, the new content filter out of startup Dolores Labs, gathers and shows batches of images to a pool of thousands of public viewers who... |
| Nov 14, 2008 | Tech Roundup: Microsoft 0% financing, Retail Bad, IBM Power Line IP, More | Microsoft offer zero percent financing -- Showing that having a whole lot of cash can be useful when the banks who lend to your customers don't, Microsoftis offering zero percent 36-month financing on its Dynamics ERP and CRM offerings... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | Citi analysts: The ad slump approacheth | Citi Investment Research (formerly Smith Barney) looked at the near future of advertising and predicted yesterday that US advertising budgets will shrink by almost 2% by the end of this year, and as much as 4% next year.
Analysts from Citig... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | Tech gossip site Valleywag sails into Gawker.com | Valleywag is not exactly the local beacon of fair and balanced reporting, but as the leading gossip blog of Silicon Valley, it helps keep things real — like the proverbial pearl-making sand in the oyster, maybe. Which is why I’m sad that Ga... |
| 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 | Project Playlist hires Owen Van Natta and raises $20M, but for what? | Project Playlist, an interactive streaming music site and application provider on social networks, has raised nearly $20 million from the Pilot Group and brought on former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta as its new chief executive.
Van Na... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | If and how will Obama get citizen feedback? | What is president-elect Barack Obama’s new transition site, Change.gov, going to become? Right now, the site just contains basic information that the campaign has already made public. But it promises to help make the U.S. government more tr... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Video: E-Waste in China, a toxic industry | http://current.com/e/76355482/en_US
Current has, in its Naked China series of videos, this interesting but scary breakdown of just what happens to all those old PCs, printers, and DVD players that are obsoleted every year and binned.
In a p... |
| Nov 7, 2008 | Google Faces Patent Extortion From Russia | Google has become a big target for patent lawsuits over the years, as does just about any successful company. Most of the lawsuits seem like more of an attempt to shakedown a successful company, rather than any legitimate complaint, and the... |
| Nov 6, 2008 | Etelos reboots business, wants to move your apps to the cloud | Just a few weeks after removing its chief executive, a company called Etelos is shifting its business by launching the Etelos Platform Suite. Like many other companies, it wants to move applications into the Internet cloud, but it’s rather ... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Faddell receives Apple stock options upon departure | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Yesterday, we brought you news that Tony Fadell, SVP of the iPod Division at Apple, was "reducing his role" at the co... |
| Oct 31, 2008 | Gentrify: A web app to find your “natural habitat” | San Francisco techies, are you sick of hearing that you’re destroying the city’s working class neighborhoods? Googlers are probably the biggest targets — their colonization of the Mission has spurred critical newspaper articles and hipster ... |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Yahoo founders against Prop 8 | Co-founders donate the most in the city of Sunnyvale
Last week, Apple and Google made headlines for announcing their opposition to California's Proposition 8, which aims to restrict marriage to couples of different genders. At the time... |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Cash Rich Tech Companies Becoming Banks? | In one of my posts about the financial crisis, I noted two important things: that if banks really did stop lending money, there would be opportunities for others to start lending (though, the question was whether or not widespread fear woul... |
| Oct 24, 2008 | Video site Break lays off 11, looks to hire more | There are a lot of video sites out there these days, and none of them — including market leader YouTube — have figured out how to become billion-dollar businesses. So layoffs in this area are not surprising, now that startups are facing the... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | Roundup: Yahoo, Apple pre-earnings reports, Akamai’s new ads, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Earnings: Yahoo may shortly be cutting employee compensation — This may be instead of or in addition to planned job cuts.
Earnings: Apple lowballs projections, as usual — Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog has a closer look ... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | Roundup: Web data offers election insight, banks gets big bonuses and more | Here’s the latest action:
Web data offers new info on presidential election — It remains to be seen whether Barack Obama’s tremendous lead over John McCain in Facebook friends will lead to a similar victory on election day. Meanwhile, anoth... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | I read a new rumor about “Facebook Music” but all I got was this stupid picture | Facebook is perpetually rumored to have some sort of in-house music service in the works. The latest story is a vague piece today in the pseudo-tabloid New York Post. Apparently Facebook has been talking to people in the music industry abou... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | The world’s top 10 tech companies | While the global economic downturn is set to wipe out some internet start-ups, a lot of Silicon Valley is continuing to do quite well.
While the global economic downturn is set to wipe out some internet start-ups, a lot of Silicon Valley is... |
| Oct 10, 2008 | Seesmic.com loses seven people from the team | Is there a light at the end of this tunnel yet?
Seesmic, a site dedicated to online video conversations, today announced that it will be cutting 7 positions in the company. Loic Le Meur said on his blog that "It's never easy to ad... |
| Oct 1, 2008 | Is The Original Spyware Company Finally Dead? | For nearly a decade, we’ve followed the changing business of what was originally called Gator. When it first launched, back in 1999, the company was offering an e-wallet product, and even though there were many such things on the market, Ga... |
| Sep 30, 2008 | My Thoughts On "Startup Depression" | I received a bunch of requests yesterday to address Jason Calacanis’ "startup depression" email that was sent out over the weekend. Alley Insider had the full text of it online but they took it down yesterday, apparently at Jason’... |
| Sep 25, 2008 | Glam lays off seven percent of its employees, prepares to launch “Men” | Updated with more details about Glam’s channel for men, which has been called “CodeBlue” internally — see image below left
Glam, the women-focused online ad network, is laying off 14 out of 200 employees, mostly in sales, reports by Valleyw... |
| Sep 19, 2008 | The Twitter song | It’s Friday. I’m already sick of the “Talk Like a Pirate Day” stuff. I think we’re all due for a musical interlude. Today’s entertainment comes from Ben Walker. He’s written a song called “You’re No One If You’re Not On Twitter.”
For some b... |
| Sep 19, 2008 | Cisco buys instant message company Jabber, to make money from IM | Network giant Cisco has bought instant message technology company Jabber for an undisclosed amount. Sure, Cisco has also been buying up consumer-facing web companies in a move to become directly relevant to consumers. But that’s not what th... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | Microsoft drops Seinfeld, to target “Get a Mac” with new ads | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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As quickly as it began, Microsoft's fling with comedian Jerry Seinfeld has come to an end. In a development first reported... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | Microsoft Gives In To Online Critics: Fires Seinfeld | I recognize that I was in the minority of folks who actually thought the Microsoft Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ads were good and entertaining, but I’m still quite surprised to see Valleywag report that Microsoft is ending the Seinfeld ads, de... |
| Sep 17, 2008 | Seinfeld takes the European carry-all, Gates takes the man-fur as the two part ways? | No, seriously, what is the deal with those Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates Microsoft ads? In what I can only think is an attempt to upstage the lackluster finale of the show Seinfeld, the ads are apparently over, Valleywag reports. But why?
Micro... |
| Sep 9, 2008 | Google cuts how long it keeps your IP data by half | Google announced yesterday evening it would change how long it stores the IP addresses of its users without anonymizing the information, down to nine months from 18. The announcement comes a year and a half after Google instituted the 18-mo... |
| Sep 7, 2008 | Roundup: MyHeritage raises funding, news feed psychology, Bell drops “basic research,” and more | Here’s the latest action:
Genealogy site MyHeritage raises $15 million — The Israel-based company has grown from 17 million to 25 million registered users over the past year. Investors include Index Ventures and Accel.
High-imaging satellit... |
| Aug 28, 2008 | Roundup: Facebook movie casting, Yahoo shuts down Mash, and more | The Facebook Movie has a very unofficial casting call — Yesterday, top Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin let it be known he was working on a movie about the high-flying social network. Here’s a (rather entertaining) formulation of which a... |
| Aug 27, 2008 | Axes To Grind | Having and "axe to grind" is a phrase that means you’ve got a dispute to take up with someone or possibly an ulterior motive. I’ve seen and/or participated in several such axes in the past 24 hours and it’s gotten me thinking that... |
| Aug 25, 2008 | Google dinners are still free (for now) | A rumor has been floating around suggesting that Google is no longer going to provide free dinner to its employees — these delicious meals have been a symbol of its success. A later version of the rumor suggested it was only going to provid... |
| Aug 25, 2008 | Roundup: Virgin Mobile absorbs Helio, Kindle for students, and more | Mobile voice network operator Virgin Mobile USA has finished absorbing rival Helio — We heard a rumor, more than once, that “massive firings” were being considered, but Virgin Mobile tells us that this won’t happen. Instead, some employees ... |
| Aug 25, 2008 | TheFunded delivers subpoenaed documents | TheFunded, the VC-review site that was recently subponaed by EDF Ventures, says it has handed over the requested documents — and, amusingly, site owner Adeo Ressi decided to videotape himself as he delivered the documents to the Oakland off... |
| Aug 21, 2008 | Finding The Last Sucker To Invest | Valleywag points us to a rather scathing profile of late stage “investment” firm Advanced Equities in Chicago. Valleywag refers to the operation as a venture capital firm, but the details suggest it’s a bit different than a traditional VC f... |
| Aug 20, 2008 | Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook [Updated] | Updated
Yeah. I know. It’s a slow day today. Anyway, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — a nonprofit religious organization that may have up to $30 billion in wide-ranging assets — is trying to buy Facebook. That’s what Zach K... |
| Aug 15, 2008 | Friday afternoon Apple links: iMac turns 10 edition | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Happy Friday! It's hard to believe that we're already halfway through August, but it's true. Summer is fading aw... |
| Aug 8, 2008 | Roundup: MySpace virtual currencies, the Russian invasion, and more | Here’s the latest action:
MySpace apps also making money from virtual currencies — We’ve covered how some Facebook application developers are making seven figures through virtual goods and currencies. Offerpal, a company that offers adverti... |
| Aug 6, 2008 | BitTorrent Fires 20% of Its Employees | One of the main plans of BitTorrent Inc. was to be the next iTunes, by selling movies and music via their “BitTorrent powered” online store. For several reasons, DRM being one of them, the store never became the success they hoped it to be.... |
| Aug 5, 2008 | Advice For Google's VC Arm: Don't Be Boring | Last week, there was a lot of skepticism surrounding Google’s VC effort as observers pointed out all the pitfalls of corporate venture capital funds and the historic performance (or lack thereof) of other companies that have tried to do wha... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Facebook to let employees sell some stock — at internal $4 billion valuation | [Updated: Facebook has confirmed the employee stock sale program.]
Facebook has an internal valuation of $4 billion, as we’ve previously reported. It will begin letting current employees sell 20 percent of their fully vested stock options a... |
| Jul 17, 2008 | PodTech purchased by ViewPartner for less than half a million, ending a bloody story | Updated, including the full press release, below the article.
PodTech, a company that publishes online and downloadable videos about new technology, has been sold — for less than half a million dollars, I’ve learned — to ViewPartner, a comm... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Bono Agrees With Manager: ISPs Are To Blame For The Downfall Of Music | About a month ago, we wrote about how Paul McGuinness, the manager of U2, was repeating an earlier rant blaming pretty much everyone but the recording industry for the recording industry’s troubles. Basically, the rant could be summed up: |
| Jun 27, 2008 | LinkedIn: Real Valuation for Real Value | At this point, you've probably heard that LinkedIn raised $53 million, mostly from Bain Capital Ventures, which translates into a $1 billion valuation. That leaves us with the obvious question: Can the company really be worth that much... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Tech Writer Musical Chairs Continues: Slate Snags Salon's Farhad Manjoo | Redeem now
The journalism job market is dicier than ever these days. But as Valleywag notes, now is a good time to be an established tech writer looking to land a new job at a big publisher: Newsweek's Steve Levy has jumped to Wired, F... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Learning from Flickr’s Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo | In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and the web hasn’t been the same since. Yahoo, on the other hand, didn’t change nearly as much as everyone expected it to. Pre-CEO Jerry Yang told then-Business 2.0 ... |
| Jun 12, 2008 | Viacom Demands YouTube Take Down Viral Video Made By Viacom | We know that Viacom really dislikes YouTube, but it seems to have taken that hatred a bit beyond reasonable (assuming you don’t already consider its $1 billion lawsuit unreasonable). For the MTV Movie Awards (MTV being a Viacom property), B... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | Once Again, The DMCA Doesn't Let You Takedown Any Content You Don't Like | Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding that something they dislike isn’t necessarily illegal — and because of it, they can sometimes take legal action even though they have no right to do so. This is quite common with the DMCA... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | Apple comments on Steve Jobs’ health following WWDC keynote | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jun 5, 2008 | Should Social Networks Be Regulated? | UK Says Yes, EU is Considering, is US Next?
A recent study in the UK showed that most Britons have a strong desire for the regulation of social network sites like MySpace and Facebook. In fact, 9 out of 10 people said there should be tighte... |
| Jun 5, 2008 | Not Your Every Day Tech Exec Scandal | While the good folks over at Valleywag might have you believe otherwise, most tech execs lead rather boring lives. There aren’t that many “scandals” that happen around these parts — and the ones that do happen, tend to be rather mundane. So... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Apple secrecy to new levels: fake store built just for ad | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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With 186 stores in the US, Apple has a retail presence in 37 of the 50 states. 29 of those states have multiple stores, includi... |
| May 27, 2008 | Roundup: NY Times building API, more wireless spectrum?, Yahoo signs 4Info, and more | New York Times building API for news page mashups — Like Web 2.0 companies, the New York Times has reams of data locked away on its servers. Now the forward-thinking newspaper company is developing its own API, to allow developers to remix ... |
| May 22, 2008 | Akimbo, online video delivery company, throws in towel for good | updated
We’re hearing that Akimbo, the San Mateo, Calif. video set-top box company that raised millions of dollars in fresh funding less than three months ago to make a fresh start in a new direction, has just thrown in the towel anyway.
In... |
| May 20, 2008 | Roundup: HP earnings strong, MySpace exodus, Russia’s Google goes public, more | Here’s the latest (updated) action.
MySpace exodus begins? — Silicon Valley companies have long been vulnerable to start-up fever: Employees leaving to join faster-growing start-ups, lured by potentially lucrative stock options. Now Carol W... |
| May 19, 2008 | Ballmer’s bad month comes to a head — as eggs fly at his head | Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer hasn’t had a very good month.
First, he walked away from his $45 billion deal to buy Yahoo when it became clear that the two sides would not be able to reach an amicable agreement — and that a hostile... |
| May 15, 2008 | Icahn haz Yahoo? A true shark moves in… | Microsoft bit off Yahoo’s arm. It was messy, but Yahoo was able to kick Microsoft in the nose and swim away. However, now there is blood in the water — a lot of it. And here comes a more aggressive shark: Carl Icahn.
Icahn, a billionaire fi... |
| May 14, 2008 | Comcast buys Plaxo to make itself more socially viable | After months of rumors, Plaxo, the social contact service, finally announced today that it is, in fact, being purchased — by Comcast.
Aside from Comcast, both Facebook and Google were rumored to be purchasing the service at one point. Of al... |
| May 7, 2008 | The loneliness of joining the social | A lonely LA Craigslist user is looking for Zune love in all the wrong places. He posted a “Strictly Platonic” personal looking for someone to share music wirelessly with. As we all know, if you own a Zune and you go looking for someone to s... |
| May 6, 2008 | Roundup: Another Google exec leaves for Facebook, Mosso adds more storage to the cloud, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Another Google exec heads to Facebook — Elliot Schrage, Google’s vice president of global communications and public affairs will become the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, BoomTown’s... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Austin Ventures provides eyebrow-raising $50M to nascent enterprise social software company | Austin Ventures is pumping $50 million into a company, as yet without a name, that wants to somehow provide social software to enterprises. The founder, and apparently the reason for the large round, is Jeff Dachis, best known as the cofoun... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Roundup: More earnings reports, accelerating emissions, Russian censorship and more | Here’s the latest action:
More earnings info — While we wrote earlier about Microsoft’s earnings, plenty of other companies are posting theirs, too. Motorola disclosed that its market share is down to 9.5 percent, while Qualcomm’s profit is... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | Building A Viral Business Isn't About Alchemy | Adam Penenberg is a fantastic tech journalist whose work I’ve admired for many years. However, I simply can’t figure out what made him write a huge fluff piece in Fast Company magazine that makes a number of stunningly bad claims. Mostly, t... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Yahoo and Google discuss extending charade | Something about the test to run Google ads on Yahoo search result pages reminds me of the last North Korean election. You know, the one where Kim Jong Il won with 100 percent of the vote. Did anyone really need to sit through the charade to... |
| Apr 16, 2008 | Valleywag Fires Writer Who Criticized Valleywag | Apparently everything and everyone is fair game at Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag. Or, almost everything. Write a post criticizing Valleywag itself, and two weeks later you’re out of a job.
Writer Jordan Golson is the person who finds... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | When The Best You Can Do Is Get Fake Facebook Fans, You Know You Have A PR Problem | Ticketmaster is widely considered one of the more hated companies in America, so it made a few people scratch their heads when they saw that Ticketmaster was near the top of the list in terms of the number of “fans” it had on Facebook. Vall... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Roundup: VentureBeat site update, Microsoft’s new map service to avoid traffic jams, and more | Here’s the latest action:
The VentureBeat site today: So what happened was… We switched to a new web host, and due to a number of technical issues, the changeover was not especially smooth. In fact, if you were either trying to read our sit... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Ooma not failing, is fine, don't worry | Ooma, everyone’s favorite box that offers free phone calls and looks cool, isn’t failing, at least according to a tip by Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom. Trying to get further info. The company, backed by Ashton Kutcher, looked like it was goin... |
| Apr 9, 2008 | NY Mets Rickrolled… But MLB Uses DMCA To Shut Down The Fun | Rickrolling, the geek-inspired prank of tricking folks into watching a video of Rick Astley’s pop hit “Never Gonna Give You Up,” has been way too popular over the past few months, but looked like it was finally going to die a painful death ... |
| Apr 4, 2008 | Internet people: Theoretically millionaires | http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:southparkstudios.com:165195::
Canadians on strike! Pandas sneezing! Butt stuff! South Park, America’ favorite show most of us claim to watch but barely watch anymore, made fun of the writers strik... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | Cutting through the web of lies: VentureBeat’s top five April Fools hoaxes | I know, I know, you’re a big-shot executive, and you don’t have time for all this April Fools nonsense. To be honest, neither did we — yet there we were, watching TechMeme fill with lies, damned lies and statistics.
So if you’ve been feelin... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | IBM Patents Real-Time Auto Insurance Surcharges | theodp writes "Better think twice before volunteering to tutor underprivileged kids or delivering Christmas gifts to homeless children. Thanks to IBM, you could be rewarded with a hefty car insurance premium increase for your efforts. ... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | DiggFilter vs. DiggSuggest: Third Party Recommendation Engines Head-to-Head | Digg’s long-awaited recommendation engine might be the most anticipated upcoming feature at the social news site. It was first mentioned by Kevin Rose at the EmTech conference last September, and a month later in an interview with Jay Adels... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | Antigua Says It's Going To Start Ignoring US Copyrights (For Real This Time) | Officials in Antigua are now trying to draw a line in the sand, claiming that if the US doesn’t finally agree to allow some forms of online gambling by the end of this month, it will go ahead with its threats to ignore US copyrights with th... |
| Mar 12, 2008 | Roundup: iPhone SDK gets more than 100,000 downloads, Yahoo may join OpenSocial and more | Here’s the latest action:
iPhone SDK gets more than 100,000 downloads — And that’s only in the first four days, according to Apple. The software development kit includes tools to build applications for the iPhone and the iPod, so the torren... |
| Mar 9, 2008 | Crowd totally hates on Mark Zuckerberg's interviewer at SXSW | [photopress:zsl.jpg,full,center]
Via Valleywag. Silly Nicholas left his camera in the car.
So a funny thing happened at the Zuckerberg Facebook keynote today. Dude was being interviewed by Sarah Lacy, some lady tech journalist. Maybe she mi... |
| Mar 7, 2008 | Report: Google, Microsoft To Battle Over Digg | News Report: Google, Microsoft To Battle Over Digg By Becky NagelMarch 07, 2008 According to a story posted on TechCrunch this morning, Microsoft and Google are both preparing to make bids on the user-driven news aggregation site Digg.com .... |
| Mar 7, 2008 | Friday Top Ten: Best videos of Steve Ballmer going around the bend | In honor of it being Friday, I believe it’s time for another top ten list. This one comes to us today from ValleyWag, who’s wisely compiled a list of the top ten videos of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, losing his shit.
If you’ve never se... |
| Mar 7, 2008 | Report: Google, Microsoft To Battle Over Digg | News Report: Google, Microsoft To Battle Over Digg By Becky NagelMarch 07, 2008 According to a story posted on TechCrunch this morning, Microsoft and Google are both preparing to make bids on the user-driven news aggregation site Digg.com .... |
| Mar 3, 2008 | Wikipedia bossman Jimmy Wales splits with lady-friend on her bio page? | I don’t think it’s actually as salacious as it sounds — it’s not as if he just vandalized her Wikipedia page with “ITZ OVER” or something. It’s more like, in response to some allegations of conflict of interest, he declined to help edit her... |
| Feb 29, 2008 | Bill Gates ditches Facebook for LinkedIn, ad deal coming? | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Feb 27, 2008 | Comment of the Day: First Base With Semantic Web | In our post Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now, the Web’s inventor is quoted as saying that “people are realizing its time to just go do it.” But commenter Gregory isn’t getting as excited – he thinks that “we haven’... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Where is your Bucks of Woodside? | Over many years Bucks of Woodside in Silicon Valley has become known as a place where entrepreneurs and venture capitalists meet over coffee or brunch to discuss their next project. As you can see from the video of owner Jamis Macniven belo... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Social News: Can the Digg/Mixx/Buzz Model Hold Up Against FriendFeed and Sphinn? | The social news space is developing at a mind-boggling pace. Just in the last 48 hours Yahoo! launched its new site Buzz, the increasingly mainstream site Mixx announced more funding and Digg held its first ever town hall meeting. Meanwhile... |
| Feb 18, 2008 | Did Yahoo Delete The Pirate Bay From Search Results? | There’s a lot of buzz going around concerning reports that Yahoo has deleted The Pirate Bay from its search index, though it appears not everyone is seeing it. There hasn’t been an official explanation just yet — and it could be an accident... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | UPDATED: Yahoo Seeking Deal with News Corp. | News UPDATED: Yahoo Seeking Deal with News Corp. By Becky NagelFebruary 13, 2008 The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Microsoft is facing another suitor for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
According to the article, Yahoo ... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | UPDATED: Yahoo Seeking Deal with News Corp. | News UPDATED: Yahoo Seeking Deal with News Corp. By Becky NagelFebruary 13, 2008 The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Microsoft is facing another suitor for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
According to the article, Yahoo ... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Rumor roundup: Everyone is buying everyone | updated
Have you heard the latest rumor? Fill-in-the-blank company is buying fill-in-the-blank company – except that they’re not. Or are they?
Welcome to the tech news on the Internet the past few weeks. Let’s do a roundup of what we’ve lea... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Seesmic, the Twitter of video, gradually opening for public use — unveils investors | Seesmic, yet another video-sharing site that encourages quick, conversational clips that can be recorded and replied to, is opening up for public use, with the waiting period for membership requests down to less than a day. It has also unve... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | Roundup: Ads up, AOL launches mobile social platform, and more | updated
1) Online advertising up 28 percent
2) Yahoo confirms $160M acquisition of Maven
3) AOL to launch mobile soc-net platform
4) Starbucks to offer somewhat-free WiFi
5) Topanga, next-gen lighting, funded by Khosla
6) Stealth division a... |