Al Gore just finished his talk on the topic of “What Now?” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco — and yes, the content was as wide-ranging as the title implies.
Despite being an adviser and board member at tech giants Google and Apple, as well as a partner at famed venture firm Kleiner Perkins [...]
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ImageShack, a site where users can host their images and videos, has raised $15 million from Sequoia Capital, a reliable source tells us. The sizable backing from one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture firms is pretty darn impressive, especially for yet another site in the crowded online photo market, and at a time when [...]
We’ve got more data showing that the love affair between venture capitalists and Web 2.0 startups has come to an end — or, at least, that the ardor is fading. Between July and September of this year, venture investment in the sector dropped precipitously, to its lowest point since the middle of 2006, according to [...]
There’s been a lot of argument about whether Apple’s iPhone is a valuable business tool or just a consumer toy, but it looks like users have decided for themselves — a new smartphone study from J.D. Power and Associates found that the iPhone ranked highest for customer satisfaction among business users. It beat out more [...]
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 unique by offering to redistribute traditional software under the software-as-a-service (i.e., online subscription) business model without [...]
Business networking site LinkedIn is joining the long list of companies that have announced cuts in the last few weeks — it has laid off 36 employees, or about 10 percent of its total staff.
Kay Luo, the Mountain View, Calif. company’s senior director of communications, told Reuters that the cuts are a preemptive measure to [...]
Wow, can President-Elect Barack Obama save the struggling newspaper industry, too?
Okay, probably not, but it looks like Obama’s election has caused a surge in newspaper sales, at least in liberal metropolises areas like New York and San Francisco. The New York Times, for example, tells AllThingsDigital’s Peter Kafka that it’s rushing 50,000 more copies of [...]
Here’s the latest action (aside from a certain election):
FCC agrees to open up the airwaves — A section of the radio spectrum known as white space has been set aside for public use, a move pushed for by tech companies like Google and Microsoft.
Google slows hiring — CNBC reported that Google has implemented an unofficial [...]
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With an initiative called BizSpark, software giant Microsoft is making a new pitch for startups to run their business on Microsoft’s tools.
It’s an enticing free upfront three-year package, bundling together software, support and promotion for no upfront cost — requiring merely a $100 payment when you leave the program. It’s an aggressive move by Microsoft [...]
In the last day or so, you may have noticed a barrage of Facebook status updates reminding you to go vote. You may even have posted one of those status updates yourself. And you’re not alone — more than 1.6 million users “donated” their Facebook status to the Causes application for a virtual get-out-the-vote rally. [...]
Supporters of presidential candidate Barack Obama may remember hearing that if they donated one last time over the weekend, they could win a “front row seat to history” — in other words, 10 donors won seats at Obama’s election night event. If you’re like me, you probably dismissed that message as an insane longshot, along [...]
Yahoo and Google have submitted a revised version of their search advertising deal, which is currently on hold as it undergoes scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice. The new proposal is reportedly scaled back to assuage antitrust concerns, but it’s not clear if that will satisfy the DOJ — and that would be bad [...]
Salesforce.com’s strategy can be boiled down to one word, according to chief executive Marc Benioff — love. Of course, Benioff was being a little tongue-in-cheek as he answered questions from analysts and reporters at today’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. But he was illustrating a real argument about how Salesforce.com might beat software giant Microsoft [...]
As tech giants eye the cloud computing market, Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff made it clear that he intends to stay competitive. During his keynote speech today at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, he first discussed Force.com Sites, the service for hosting public-facing websites and apps that I covered last night. Then he announced [...]
Ribbit, the web phone company recently acquired by BT, continues to tie together many of your communication tools with the release of Ribbit for Salesforce 2.0, which adds compatibility with landline phones, Google Talk and Skype.
Calling itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company,” Mountain View, Calif.-based Ribbit has built a platform for easily integrating phone capabilities [...]
Salesforce.com wants to become an even big player in the cloud computing market with a new service called Force.com Sites, which allows companies to host public-facing web applications in the Force.com platform. That means Salesforce — nominally a maker of customer relationship management (CRM) software, but also an increasingly important platform for business-related applications — [...]
TestFreaks, a product review site that says it’s growing steadily, has raised $3 million in a second round of funding.
There’s a lot of competition out there — for example, we’ve covered Retrevo, which sifts through all the information online about consumer electronics, and Buzzillions, which aggregates consumer reviews. But Kristofer Arvin, the Stockholm, Sweden-based company’s [...]
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 sidewalk graffiti — but it’s a charge that could be leveled at many startup employees, too. Well, salvation may finally [...]
Syncplicity, a service that synchronizes your files across multiple devices, has raised $2.35 million in its first round of venture backing.
Chief executive Leonard Chung acknowledges that Syncplicity is just one player in the crowded field; there are many other services that allow you to update your files from any location, and have those changes reflected [...]
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