Roundup: EBay still struggling, the decline of tech on Digg and more
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EBay’s Q1 is good but not great — The company’s net income grew 22 percent to $562 million compared to the same period a year ago, and its revenue climbed 24 percent to $2.19 billion. However, user growth has slowed, and the… Continue Reading
Densbits, another next-gen flash company, funded by Sequoia
Densbits, a small Israeli company, is working on turning flash, the type of memory used in devices like the iPod Nano, into the world’s standard memory type.
Flash, which is essentially a semiconductor that can store data, is much faster than the magnetic disk drive that… Continue Reading
Phiar, a first alternative to the semiconductor industry
Update: Phiar has shut its doors, according to GigaOm.
A competitor to semiconductors would break a 50-plus year monopoly on everything from processing power to communications. Yet that’s exactly what Phiar says it can do, with a new technology called metal-insulated electronics.
The new technology uses a… Continue Reading