Posted from ReadWriteWeb 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Yesterday's flare-up about the Terms of Service for Google's new browser Chrome, followed by the company's rapid backtracking on the demands it was making of users, left many people wondering about Google ToS in general. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/It_s_Time_for_a_New_Terms_of_Service_R... (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
This Sunday, Google turns 10. Grigoris, a tipster in Greece, estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 Googlers have descended on the island of Rhodes for some kind of gathering. Among the activities:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Company-review site Glassdoor says that according to employees at both companies, Apple's repair technicians — known as "geniuses," with the attitude to match — make $18.30 per hour and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Just when you blew your IT budget on quad-core servers, Intel has a six-core Xeon 7400 processor that'll be available from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell starting September 15th. I'm a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
We implored for stories of real engineers in Silicon Valley — the ones that messes with diodes, PCBs, chips, nuts and bolts. But what we got is a heart-warming rant by roybar, today's featured... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from BoomTown 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
It is absolutely worrisome that Yahoo's share price continued its downward swirl today, closing at a five-year low today at $17.75. The downward drift far from the it-can't-drop-below-$20 barrier makes it clear that Wall Street is valuing the company at close to what it could sell its assets off ... (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
After two years at the helm of the gadget blog, Gizmodo editor Brian Lam has gotten himself kicked upstairs. The former Wired staffer will now focus on live event coverage as an assistant managing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Lars Ulrich, Metallica's Internet-hating drummer, explained to a Bay Area radio station that he's glad the band's new album got leaked all over the world. A copy of the album was bought in a French... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from bub.blicio.us 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
by Michelle Lentz Shwup is yet another online photo-sharing tool. Shwup, however, is sort of the anti-Flickr. I doubt they’re shooting for that moniker, of course. But they do consider privacy before they consider sharing, which is pretty cool. Shwup lets you upload your photos and then set th... (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 15 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Slacker Nation, which focuses on chubby doc jock Michael Moore's trip around the country to drum up support among the youngs for "voting," will be distributed online for free. Online video site... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from GigaOM 16 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Marc Andreessen, whose first start-up, Netscape Communications introduce the consumer web to millions, thanks to its Netscape browser, seems to be suitably impressed by Google’s recently released Chrome browser. He waxed eloquent about Chrome during an onstage conversation with Portfolio magazine ... (original story)
Posted from ProgrammableWeb 16 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Google has announced the release of additional documentation for its relatively new Health Data API. We covered the release of this API earlier this year, noting that it was one of the first few APIs added to our Medical Category. (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 16 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Insiders have blabbed to the Wall Street Journal that Dell "has approached contract computer manufacturers with offers to sell ... its computer factories." Founder Michael Dell is a Texan, not a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)
Posted from bub.blicio.us 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
by Michelle Lentz DocStoc, an easy place to store and share your online documents, announced DocStoc MyDocs and DocStoc Sync. With the MyDocs feature, you can now create a My Documents folder, like on your PC or even your Mac, in an online location. All of your documents, including DOC, XLS, PPT, a... (original story)
Posted from Valleywag 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
Long-time Macintosh enthusiast Jerry Seinfeld kicks off the new Microsoft campaign by spotting company cofounder Bill Gates at a fictional discount shoe store. The 90-second spot makes a lot less... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)