Aug 05, 2009

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: According to a February survey from Telework Trendlines, the number of Americans who work from home jumped nearly 75 percent between 2005 and 2008, from 9.9 million to 17.2 million. The trend owes to a variety of factors, from technological innovations to some companies’ greater focus on their employees’ work-life balances. (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

TechCrunch Google has just debuted the latest entry to its fleet of Labs products, introducing the search giant to the travel space. Dubbed City Tours, the new site can build itineraries for brief trips to locations around the globe in a matter of seconds. At this point details on the new product are fairly sparse — it looks like Go (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Submitted by Mogston from blog: Small Batch Inc., which is developing a service for web designers called Typekit, said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from some big names in the tech world: Twitter chief executive and co-founder Evan Williams, Flickr and Hunch founder Caterina Fake, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg, well-known angel (Read More)

Feb 23, 2009

TwitLinks What does it take to be a great Social Media Expert (GSME)? Let’s look at a few basic characteristics. The GSME is someone that knows his grand mothers pearls of wisdom and re-uses them to his advantage on daily basis. (Read More)

Feb 19, 2009

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Feb 21, 2009

A VC This is a subject near and dear to entrepreneurs, maybe the dearest subject of them all. Founders start out with 100% of the company and every time they raise capital and/or issue stock and options to their management team, that number goes down.Founders who "go all the way" through the process of building a lasting and sus (Read More)

Feb 21, 2009

digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Certain travel situations–traveling with a netbook rather than a full-powered laptop, or finding a cyber-cafe with a fast connection but sluggish operating system–call for online video tools. Here’s an overview. (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog This morning we have travel-news tidbits that’ll take you from Paris all the way to our own local — and yes, snow-kissed, thanks partly to modern technology — mountains.France | “Bonaparte and Egypt,” an art exhibit currently on at Institut du Monde Arab in Paris, explores Napoleon Bonaparte (Read More)

Dec 13, 2008

Submitted by Eristoddle: The real interest of the most predominant Twitter user is self promotion in one way or another. Where is the value for YOU in that? Well, unless you can figure out how to monetize the hundreds of hours spent garnering support. As for Web 3.0, well this ideal is still a long way off. At least until we drag ourselves out of t (Read More)

Dec 13, 2008

mocoNews.net Hands-On Mobile, the San Francisco-based mobile game maker known for Guitar Hero and Texas Hold 'Em, confirmed today that it cut an undisclosed number of employees. CEO David White declined to say how many people were affected during the cuts, or how many employees the company will have going forward. However, White was qui (Read More)

Dec 10, 2008

Submitted by Eristoddle: Scientists at Toshiba's Corporate Research and Development Center in Japan have developed a system that offers shoppers advice on what to buy based on the product barcode and the current weblog buzz around the gadget. (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

paidContent.org The well-funded BlogHer women's network is cutting the revenue share for its more than 2,500 blogs by 10 percent effective Jan.1. According to a memo posted by AllThingsD, the current revenue share based on 100 percent gross advertising fees will drop to 90 percent. In the memo, BlogHer's founders Elisa Camahort Pagem, Jory (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

TechCrunch The idea behind Leverage was simple and had some potential: it offered an advanced management system for gift cards, hugely popular worldwide especially this time of year, so you could register all of them and keep track of how much you have left or stored on each one. You were also able to buy gift cards, or swap them with (Read More)

Nov 28, 2008

New York Times On the edge of one of the world’s greatest wildlife safari parks, Kenya's Oldarpoi Maasai Safari Camp is largely unknown by most travelers to this part of Africa. . (Read More)

Nov 28, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider As the cash shortage at venture capital and private equity firms gets worse, some VC firms are responding by:Reducing the number of new companies they invest inHoarding cash for their most promising companies, andSelling stakes in existing portfolio companies for firesale prices (10-60 cents on dollar, says a recent article (Read More)

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