Roundup: HP earnings strong, MySpace exodus, Russia’s Google goes public, more
Here’s the latest (updated) action.
MySpace exodus begins? — Silicon Valley companies have long been vulnerable to start-up fever: Employees leaving to join faster-growing start-ups, lured by potentially lucrative stock options. Now Carol Werner, VP of sales at MySpace, in charge of West Coast sales, has left to join Mochi Media, a start-up that offers an ad network for Flash games. This shows that non-valley companies are prone to the exodus problem too. Good, because we’re getting… Continue Reading
Roundup of action: Opus Select, Boobik, Branson’s space warming & more
1. Yandex, Russian search engine, grows quickly
2. Opus launches hedge fund in New York
3. Matrix goes to China
4. Dogster takes $400,000 in financing
5. Semantic search engine Powerset raises $2M
6. Pubmatic, draw ads from all networks
7. Boobik, the Twitter clone, but for sex
8. Branson taking global warming to space
9. Oversee.net gets $150M to monetize domains
10. Google’s Palimpsest hosts terabytes of raw data
Yandex, Russian search engine, grows quickly — Yandex did more than a million billion searches last month,… Continue Reading