Roundup: Rumors of layoffs at Microsoft, Tweeting a plane crash, music video fighting and more

Roundup: Rumors of layoffs at Microsoft, Tweeting a plane crash, music video fighting and more

Here’s the latest action:

The layoff bug about to hit Microsoft? – The software giant has thus far avoided the layoffs that some of its competitors have had to succumb to in the rough economic climate, but that’s about to change, according to the blog Mini-Microsoft. They’re hearing January 15 could be the day it goes down, and we have a seperate source hearing the same thing. On that day the bottom “10 percent-ers” (presumably, those… Continue Reading

The Y Combinator List

The Y Combinator List

We visited the Y Combinator demo day in Mountain View today, where 19 start-ups showed off their products to a group of investors and other entrepreneurs. The start-ups have emerged after eleven weeks of work, so these are very early-stage companies. Some of them haven’t launched yet, and requested they not be written about until they’re ready.

Eight of them have launched, or are otherwise ready to say something. We decided to force ourselves to rank… Continue Reading