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High-definition video on your iPod available in five months — This will happen when San Carlos company ATO releases a new liquid crystal display sleeve that slips onto the iPod, the company said at the AlwaysOn conference this week at Stanford. We’ve mentioned the company before. This sleeve will work with video iPod [...]
San Francisco music sharing site GarageBand has raised $2.5 million in a first round of funding to launch a new music taste-matching service, iLike.com.
The company, which crashed after the Internet bubble burst and relaunched in 2002, already has a similar name to Apple’s music recording service, Garageband, and is now launching a service [...]
Jennifer Washburn, a fellow at the New America Foundation has written an opinion piece for the Mercury News about the increasing conflicts of interest at America’s best universities. It is worth reading. We’ve excerpted below a section about Exxon Mobil’s unusual relationship with Stanford, and the propaganda generated with Stanford’s seal — literally [...]
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Chad Hurley, the 29-year-old YouTube chief executive, was the center of attention at the AlwaysOn conference yesterday.
During a panel discussion, Hurley was asked about a recent remark by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who said he would not be interested in acquiring YouTube because of all the pirated videos on the site. “It’s interesting [...]
Infinera, the Sunnyvale company that claims it is transforming the process of data switching on high-speed telecommunications networks, has raised at least $110 million in a seventh round of funding, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
VentureWire (sub required) just reported on this.
This is an aggressive company. It is run by [...]
Ray Lane, a venture capitalist with Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins, has written an opinion piece for the Mercury News, and it is worth a read. He argues Californians have the power to pass a law that could profoundly influence global efforts to cap greenhouse gasses.
Just as government acted in the 1980s to combat [...]
Heatseek
…and that’s all going on right here in Silicon Valley:
Hummer Winblad still embroiled in Napster suit — Here’s the Red Herring piece about the latest, regarding charges that Hummer Winblad erased email pertaining to the case.
YouTube has porno clone; adult sites are sprouting. The sex sites are getting crowded, in both senses. Techcrunch writes up [...]
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Worldview Technology Partners, a Palo Alto venture capital firm that did well with its first fund several years ago, but has suffered with its subsequent funds after raising too much cash during the boom times, has closed shop.
(Update: We let some jargon slip in here. By “closed shop,” we don’t mean they’re [...]
(via Wired)
We got the first glimpse of the Tesla here.
But now there are many more pictures, at Wired.
StyleHive, the Tiburon start-up launched in April to provide another online bookmarking service, has raised $2.62 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
There is a lot of competition in this online bookmarking area, from Kaboodle to Plum. They all work in a similar way. As you surf the Web, you can bookmark pages, and [...]
Tello, the San Mateo start-up that is pushing the boundaries of “presence” social networking technology for businesses, has raised $10 million in a second round of funding.
BCE Capital led the round, with Tello’s existing investors, including Eagle River, Evercore Partners, Rho Ventures, and Intel Capital
We wrote about the company’s technology when [...]
Zoove, the Palo Alto start-up that wants to connect mobile phone users with advertisers, has come up with a new way to text.
Mobile phone users dial “**” and then a short keyword, such as “CAR” when they see a billboard or magazine advertisement with a cool car. Obviously, only one car company can [...]
You’re familiar with popular video-sharing consumer companies like YouTube, Grouper and Guba, and the constant debate about whether or not they will make serious money.
Well, a growing number of companies happy to forgo household brand-recognition, and willing to make stacks of cash off of the exploding traffic rates of YouTube et al.
Limelight Networks, [...]
SolFocus, the Palo Alto company that produces solar power with less silicon — a major advantage given today’s silicon shortage — is about to finish raising $32 million.
The SolFocus deal, reported this morning by VentureWire (sub required), is significant because it underscores how hot this sector is right now. VentureWire did not mention [...]
GUIDe
Manu Kumar, a 31-year-old Stanford computer science graduate student wants to let you browse with just your eyes.
He’s come up with a technology called Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design, or GUIDe. Our Mercury News colleague Mike Langberg describes it in his latest column (you’ll have to scroll down to second half), and here are some [...]
Blog search engine Technorati has just had a major facelift. You can see a summary via the company’s screencast. Basically, they now offer a “signed in” version and “signed out” version. The “signed in” version, where you log in, hopes to become your home page. It will let you organize and peruse your favorite blogs. [...]
Zillow.com, the controversial online real estate company that provides value estimates on homes, has raised $25 million in a second round of funding.
It is controversial because it pisses off lots of real estate agents, who think providing values is their job.
Rich Barton
This venture round reminds us of the Jobster funding last week: Like [...]
Panther Express, which delivers video and other content over the Internet, has raised $6M, to be announced tomorrow.
Panther Express is another so-called content delivery network, or CDN, company. CDNs let a publisher, for example the New York Times, deliver its online content to customers around the globe by caching content on geographically distributed [...]
We recently pointed to the blog of Kara Nortman, a senior associate (scroll down) at Silicon Valley venture capitalist at Battery Ventures, and mentioned how she chases entrepreneurs through New York’s Central Park.
Her partners say she is a comer, so we hit her up for a “guest post,” which follows below. She [...]
Noteworthy story in the NYT today, with an interesting take on the differences between Yahoo and Google.
The key example is Google Maps, which has lots of gee-whiz features, but doesn’t have an address book or a way of even remembering your default address — something that makes Yahoo convenient. The response from Google [...]
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