Haber
Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun, and the guy who bounded up to the Google guys from his Porsche to hand them their first check back in 1998, has funded yet another company.
He has joined George Haber, a former colleague at Sun, to invest in Los Altos wireless chip company called Cresta Technology. The lower-power [...]
Google said today it will furnish XM Satellite Radio, the popular satellite radio service, with ads from Google’s network of advertisers.
XM has more than seven million subscribers. This will be done on XM’s non-music channels, and through the broadcast ad network dMarc media network recently acquired by Google.
Here’s the latest news for Silicon Valley tech-money crowd:
The Dead 2.0 blog — In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the Dead 2.0 blog, we’ve seen referenced a few times. It says we let Jobster off the hook.
Top Digg.com user going for $710 on eBay — The user, named Geekforlife, who is [...]
EBay has rejected Meebo’s new widget, Meebome.
Hani Durzy, spokesman for eBay, said the Meebome widget, which lets people place a little instant message box on their pages, isn’t welcome at eBay.
Meebo’s Seth Sternberg tested the policy this morning, by placing the new widget — released today at 5am, and which we wrote about [...]
(Update: EBay has gotten back to us, and says Meebome is not welcome there. Our update is here)
Meebo, the start-up that lets you instant message online across different platforms (Google, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc), has created a cool little widget that lets you chat with anyone directly from your homepage — and threatens to shake [...]
We’re writing a lot about green technologies.
This is not a change of heart. We’re simply following the action.
The latest is that San Francisco firm Expansion Capital Partners has raised more than $55 million for its second fund. Expansion Capital is one of the only venture firms focused on supporting the “expansion” stage of [...]
Baisdell, Chao, Doll
Doll Capital Management, a Menlo Park venture capital firm that has invested aggressively
in China recently, and the exploits of which we have written about many times, has raised a new fund of $500 million to invest in fresh companies.
It has offices both here and in Beijing, and also invests in Japan.
The firm [...]
Mountain View’s Kazeon, which sells search engine technology to large companies, has raised $21 million in a second round of venture capital financing. The funding, led by Silicon Valley’s Menlo Ventures, brings the total investment in the company to $44 million.
The company has teamed with Google to sell companies a product that allows [...]
We were just preparing a story for the Mercury News today about how clean-technology is very hot right now.
It is a cliche to jump to the word “bubble” anytime a sector heats up, but this is an area that is seeing special excitement for various reasons — oil prices, middle east conflict, the [...]
You’d think the prolificacy of fund-raising by venture capitalists would lead to venture “fratricide,” where hungry venture firms invest in competing companies, and drive down profits for everyone.
But that’s not happening. Venture capitalists are doing quite well, according to the latest survey by Thomson Financial and the National Venture Capital Association.
We have tried [...]
SF Sentinel
Tomorrow, the state’s troubled $3 billion stem-cell institute will decide whether members of its working groups should be required to publicly disclose any conflicts of interest before they review grant applications and make recommendations to the agency’s governing board for final approval.
More disclosure is a good thing, so we are for it.
So far, though, [...]
Doerr
Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr, and former Kleiner Perkins partner Vinod Khosla are carrying on the tradition of fighting for policy change.
Doerr is supporting Proposition 88, for a real estate parcel tax to benefit education. Khosla is supporting Proposition 87, a royalty on oil pumped from California, as summarized in this piece by the Mercury [...]
Steve Perlman, who previously co-founded WebTV and the set-top box company, Moxi, has launched another start-up. It is called Mova, and is based in Palo Alto, and here’s the Mercury News story.
Four years ago, Perlman anticipated that the last frontier for computer artists would be human faces. With a small team, he created [...]
Rob Day
Today may prove a big moment in California’s role to start the dominos falling toward a new international regime capping greenhouse gases. At a meeting in Los Angeles in a few hours, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may announce the creation of a joint market for greenhouse gases.
With that [...]
(NYT: Linda Sue Scott)
The New York Times takes another poke at Larry Sonsini, who leads Wilson Sonsini, the law firm that has provided legal counsel on issues like the proper handling of stock options to roughly half of the 25 Silicon Valley area companies implicated so far in the widening probe of improper [...]
San Jose start-up Spymedia is offering an online spot market for photos, where a buyer can set a price for a photo they want someone to shoot — and sellers can set prices for the photo they want to sell.
There are professional media agencies that do this sort of thing, but few, if [...]
Singshot is a San Francisco start-up that lets you do karaoke online. It is also the latest company to join the fad of holding American Idol-like talent competitions for its users.
Back when we first wrote about this company, it still hadn’t launched, but we thought the idea was a “long-shot.” The company launches [...]
Updated
Grouper creates way to leave videos as portable comments — Grouper, the video sharing site based north of San Francisco is releasing a new feature that lets you post videos as comments, and then lets you post that video, along with the video comments, at other sites — including MySpace. Grouper’s Josh Felser [...]
Forbes has a notable story on the fast-growing Silicon Valley chip company Marvell, that is taking over in most sectors it enters.
The company, run by husband and wife team Sehat Sutardja, 45, and Weili Dai, 44, recently bought the money-losing division of Intel. This story tells the good and the bad, including [...]
Google has announced some nice new features for Google Talk, including the ability to transfer files directly to someone while chatting, leaving voice messages if they’re not there, and showing off what music you’re listening to.
File Transfer –This lets you send unlimited files and folders to your friends through Google Talk (see image). [...]
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