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Googlers take turns insulting P&G marketers [The Human Stain]
Posted from Valleywag 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Nothing, it seems, can stop Google — except the overweening hubris of its employees. Every time Googlers venture outside the Googleplex to demonstrate their charitable embrace of the digitally... (original story)
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Sony sets the stage for launch of its Home virtual world
Posted from VentureBeat 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Sony has started setting the stage for the launch of its Home virtual world. The company has been running beta tests with thousands of users for weeks now, and the formal launch is still expected to be this fall on the PlayStation Network. About 18 months in the making, Home is Sony’s “H... (original story)
Apptera gets more funding and a former Yahoo VP on its board
Posted from VentureBeat 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Voice and visual mobile ad network Apptera clearly doesn’t think that mobile advertising is going to take a big hit along with other forms of online advertising. In fact, in its view, mobile advertising may be the perfect way for publishers to cut costs while reaching a very targeted audience.... (original story)
AOL Employees Pine For Old Boss Jon Miller
Posted from Alley Insider 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
We asked readers who should become Yahoo's next CEO and 18.7% voted in favor of ex-AOL boss Jon Miller. Guess where most of those votes came from. Our polling services profider Vizu handily breaks down results by region, using a Google Maps mashup. In this case, it marked a concentration of votes fo... (original story)
PC Magazine Goes Out Of Print
Posted from Alley Insider 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Founded in 1982 and at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages, Ziff Davis's PC Magazine will issue its last print edition this January, thereafter becoming an online-only publication. Ziff Davis, which recently exited bankruptcy will lay of seven print production employees. G... (original story)
blinkx Offers to Acquire Miva Again; This Time for Less Than Half Original Offer
Posted from CenterNetworks - 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Video search provider blinkx has publicly announced its proposal to (once again) acquire online advertising company Miva today. Back in August, blinkx offered $1.20 for each Miva share for the company but the deal never went through. Today's proposed acquisition comes in at $0.55 per share, less th... (original story)
Take Responsibility For Your Actions
Posted from Feld Thoughts 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
I made a mistake this morning. I allowed myself to get ramped up during my morning information routine. As I read through my online news and feeds, I kept seeing various permutations of discussions around "the bailout." Which bailout you ask? So did I. Before I knew it ... (original story)
Do You Ever Do Any Real Work?
Posted from A VC 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
That's a question I used to get all of the time in the early days of this blog. I don't get it so much anymore. Because slowly but surely people are wising up to the fact that blogging is work... (original story)
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard showing its teeth sooner than expected?
Posted from VentureBeat 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
The next version of Apple’s OS X operating system, dubbed “Snow Leopard” is slated to come out next year. When an early build was shown at this year’s WWDC event in June, Apple indicated that it would be available to the public in about a year. However, a new slide from a pre... (original story)
New Xbox Experience launches, looks great, Netflix integration fails
Posted from VentureBeat 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Several folks (yours truly included) waited up until 2 AM PST tonight to download the new Xbox Experience update for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console. It arrived on time and after a quick download was good to go. Too bad its Netflix integration wasn’t. After trying about 10 different ac... (original story)
Jerry Couldn't Make A Decision To Save His Life -- Yahoos
Posted from Alley Insider 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Well, that didn't take long. A day after the happy "mutual decision" story about Jerry Yang's impending resignation as Yahoo's CEO (not that anyone was buying it), anonymous Yahoos are already rushing to get the the real story out (WSJ): "This company has shown a failure to execute," said a person f... (original story)
Google's New Executive Training Program: Send Wacky Staff To P&G To Get Starched
Posted from Alley Insider 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Google and P&G have launched an "executive swap," in which Google's hall-scooting, kite-surfing creative types can mix with P&G's disciplined army, and vice versa. We assume the program is affectionately known as "two weeks in hell." What Google is really after, of course, is more of P&G's $9 billio... (original story)
Nanoscaffolding Regrows Limbs, Organs
Posted from TechCrunch 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
By using ultra-fine polymer fibers, military researchers have been able to regrow damaged or missing organs and limbs. They will announce their findings officially next month at the 26th Army Science Conference in Florida. One example given by John Parmentola, a director of research and lab manag... (original story)
Microsoft Working on Free Vaccine for Windows Viruses
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
It's no secret that - as the most widely deployed operating system - Microsoft Windows has the ignoble distinction of being the primary target of virus and malware developers everywhere. And when you couple that with the fact that many users of the Windows operating system fail to protect their mach... (original story)
Facebook Feels the Pinch and Decides to Make More Money
Posted from Mashable! 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Two bits of interesting news on the Facebook front this evening. Nick O’Neill at All Facebook noticed that the social network has created additional ad inventory for sale on their sidebar, and we received details on the Application Verification Program that was announced earlier this week. B... (original story)
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