Recent Start-up and Venture Capital News
Comcast to Appeal FCC Network Management Order
Posted from GigaOM 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Updated: Comcast says it has filed an appeal against the Federal Communications Commission’s Memorandum and Order on network management adopted August 1, 2008 and released August 20, 2008, in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. This appeal is the latest chapter in ongoing traffic manage... (original story)
Election ‘08 for iPhone Offers Up-to-the-minute Political Info
Posted from TechCrunch 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
After so long in gestation, the 2008 election season has actually kind of snuck up on me. And what with the App store being released, I thought there would be a ton of politically-orientated apps out there. Incredibly, there are virtually none, and certainly none this cool. Take a gander at Electio... (original story)
PC Makers Give Storage Startups a Boost
Posted from GigaOM 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
On Sunday, I wrote that online back-up services are much in demand from consumers who are worried about their digital data. David Friend, CEO of Carbonite, told us that he wouldn’t be surprised that in a few years “almost every PC is going to ship with online backup built-in.” Seem... (original story)
Box.net Gets Spot on Dell’s New Mini Laptop; We Have Five to Give Away
Posted from TechCrunch 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Online file storage and sharing service Box.net is helping to put the "cloud" in Dell's first netbook, the Inspiron Mini 9. With only 4GB of built-in hard drive space, Dell needed some way to boost capacity. So it placed a default Box icon on the desktop that leads to 2GB of free internet storag... (original story)
Submit Your Toughest Questions For VCs on TechCrunch50 Panel
Posted from TechCrunch 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
We're all gearing up for TechCrunch50 next week, and with all the startups and venture capitalists at the conference we thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about what it takes to get VC funding these days and whether or not venture capital even maters as much as it once did. I will be ... (original story)
VCs Back Tools to Look Inside the Cloud
Posted from GigaOM 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
As computing clouds become part of the corporate information technology environment, making sure software hosted in the cloud is delivered as quickly and efficiently as possible will become increasingly important. And that has venture firms taking a fresh look at an already mature industry known as ... (original story)
Lookery’s ad data sales business crystallizes, as it raises another $2.25 million
Posted from VentureBeat 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Lookery began life one year ago as a banner advertising network for third party applications on Facebook, with plans to target ads to users based on demographic data. It’s ended up as a company that collects anonymized demograhic data about sites around the web, and sells this information to a... (original story)
Grand Theft Auto IV tops 10 million sold
Posted from VentureBeat 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
“Grand Theft Auto IV” is on its way to breaking records, despite a feared slowdown in sales. Take-Two Interactive reported that it has sold more than 10 million copies of the controversial shooting game since it launched on April 29. The game hit the 10 milllion mark as of Aug. 16. Previ... (original story)
Microsoft Office Live Workspace Celebrates One Million Users
Posted from Mashable! 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Microsoft’s online collaboration space for Office users, where they can store, exchange and share their documents, now has one million users. We went through the most interesting features of Office Live Workspace when the beta opened up to everyone, and it is a solid effort. Its biggest advant... (original story)
Comcast’s Courtroom Drama Begins
Posted from GigaOM 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
With its appeal of an FCC enforcement order, Comcast is showing how a bunch of highly trained lawyers can overturn the spirit of the law with a focus on definitions and legalese. It’s a battle played out in procedural dramas in prime time, but in those shows the spirit of the law generally win... (original story)
TechCrunch50 Is Oversold
Posted from TechCrunch 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
The TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco next Monday through Wednesday is now oversold. We had originally anticipated as many as 1,500 attendees (50% more than last year), but we blew through that number earlier this week and are now at around 1,650 attendees. The venue actually holds this many ... (original story)
Hulu vs. Amazon: Amazon Never Stood A Chance
Posted from TechCrunch 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Since Amazon released its video on demand service earlier today, I've pored over each and every section of the site to determine if it has what it takes to supplant Hulu as the best online video service providing professional network content. And after doing just that, I've quickly realized that ... (original story)
Placecast Brings Location-Based Advertising to Eventful
Posted from Mashable! 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Location-based advertising? You’ve seen that, right? Practically every other ad you see on the net is tied to your general location, which is derived from your IP address. Eventful, however, is a local events site, which means that the ads on it - now delivered by Placecast, described as R... (original story)
Amidst mixed signals, Facebook redesign slated for next week
Posted from VentureBeat 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
The new feed-focused Facebook redesign will be fully launched to users next week, according to the company — after a final mystery feature is fully implemented, that intends to make third-party applications more obvious to users. Since the redesign was first introduced in beta this summer, use... (original story)
Top 10 Web Applications for FriendFeed
Posted from Mashable! 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Over the last few months, a plethora of tools — addons, scripts, Web apps — have emerged using the FriendFeed API. Here is a list of the top 10 Web applications that you can check out to get the most out of the service. Which do you use? Tell us more in the comments. NoiseRiver NoiseRiv... (original story)
Canon PowerShot® S5 IS Dig...8.3 Megapixel, Standard Point and Shoot Camera, 12x Optical Zoom, 4x Digital Zoom, CCD ....
Canon PowerShot SD870 IS Di...8.3 Megapixel, Compact Camera, 3.8x Optical Zoom, 4x Digital Zoom, CCD Sensor, Video Ca....
Panasonic Lumix® DMC-FZ18K...8.32 Megapixel, Standard Point and Shoot Camera, 18x Optical Zoom, 4x Digital Zoom, CCD....
dominator
cocopuffs
PhilGott
Ruby On Rails: Developers' Guide
iPod: All Things iPod
SAP : News and information
Apple: News, Blogs and information
Microsoft : News, Blogs, Videos
Adobe Products: News, Blogs, Videos
Cell Phones: News, Blogs, Reviews
Blackberry: News, Events, Blogs, Reviews, Videos
Cameras: News, Events, Photos, Reviews
iPhone: News, Reviews, Blogs, Softwares