Roundup: Google calls out quitters, Craigslist’s feelings are hurt and more
Here’s the latest action:
Google knows you’re quitting before you do — In the wake of recent brain drain, the search giant has devised an algorithm that combines employee reviews, promotion histories, pay and other factors to predict which employees are most likely to leave. The WSJ has more.
Unity Semiconductor finds chip alternative – After seven years of research, the company will provide flash memory said to have four times the storage capacity and five to ten… Continue Reading
Feeva helps advertisers target users with new precision
A San Francisco company called Feeva has launched a new ad service it says targets Internet users with unprecedented geographic and demographic precision.
Advertisers have long lusted after ways to target users — they can sell more if they reach the types of people likely to buy their products.
One of the sexiest sources of such data — the Internet browsing behaviors of individual users obtained directly from Internet service providers (ISPs) — has been off-limits for… Continue Reading
Roundup: iRobot co-founder moves to new robot venture, botnets surge, IPOs come and go, and more
Roomba technologist moves to new robotic venture — Rodney Brooks, chief technology officer and co-founder at iRobot, is moving on to a new company called Heartland Robots, which will work to “rehumanize and revitalize manufacturing.”
Zombie networks surge ahead — Botnet networks of infected computers have tripled in size over the past three months, according to a tracker, the Shadowserver Foundation.
Newspapers giving business to ad startups — Faced with falling revenues, some of the biggest dailies, including the… Continue Reading
Roundup: IT spend trending down, Google’s next move, our many privacy issues, and more
Spending in IT trends downward — Growth in spending is slipping from 7 percent to 5 percent this year, according to a Goldman Sachs report summarized on CNET. Cost cutting measures are getting the most new investment, with server virtualization topping the list.
Google may start auto or music service — Having successfully predicted that Google would start Google Health and a virtual world, which turned out to be Lively, research firm Hitwise has turned back to its… Continue Reading
Latest action: ThinkGreen, MingleNow shuts, Freewebs relaunches, more
Here’s the latest action:
1) Bizarre claim made by academic: France shipping nuclear waste to U.S.
2) Google up against new rivals, which can see what you surf
3) MingleNow is leaving the party
4) Solar’s scaling challenges may have an answer
5) Incandescent lighting heading for the door
6) Gaming feud could cause aftershocks
7) Freewebs relaunches as Webs.com
More money heads to Hollywood
U.S. denies France is shipping nuclear waste to South Carolina — At the ThinkGreen conference in San Francisco, University… Continue Reading
NebuAd offers “deep” targeted advertising, raises nearly $20.5M
(Updated, to include precise amount of funding, and reporting about privacy controls NebuAd has implemented not included in the first version of this story)
NebuAd, a controversial advertising firm, emerged from secrecy today to announce it has received $20.5 million in a second round of financing.
Its “targeted” advertising technology is likely to add fuel to the debate about privacy. The service can be used by your Internet service provider to get an unprecedented look at the… Continue Reading
NebuAd, yet another online ad co., raises $6.1M
NebuAd, a Sausalito provider of online advertising services, has raised around $6.1 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week.
The site is bare-bones. It has massive competition, but the opportunity is so large, investments in such companies will keep coming.