Peanut Butter redux, expensive Sonsini, Hoffman burned, Infinera & much more

Peanut Butter redux, expensive Sonsini, Hoffman burned, Infinera & much more

(Updated) roundup of the high-stakes game going on in Silicon Valley:

Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter memo — The Yahoo executive complained about the company’s “proclivity to repeatedly hire leaders from outside.” This is noteworthy, because he himself was hired from the outside. Before Yahoo, he’d served as… Continue Reading

Stunning photo site, Zooomr, releases Zmail & much more

Stunning photo site, Zooomr, releases Zmail & much more

Zooomr, the photo start-up that has galloped ahead of everyone else in offering edgy photo tagging and sharing techniques, is about to release its latest feature: Zmail.

Zmail, an internal messaging system for the site, will let users notify their friends or groups of the photos… Continue Reading

Roundup: 37Signals, MetroFi, CaliSolar & Duffield’s taxes…and more

Roundup: 37Signals, MetroFi, CaliSolar & Duffield’s taxes…and more

37signals, the jazzy Web 2.0 company, takes funding from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — See the company’s announcement here about why. We last mentioned the company here. The company boasts: Since we launched Basecamp we’ve been contacted by nearly 30 different VC firms. We’ve never been… Continue Reading