Silicon Alley Insider:
Looking for a change of scenery? There are several new opportunities posted on the Silicon Alley Insider job board. Recent listings include positions at The Huffington Post, AdBuyer.com, TechWeb, and more:Account Executive, The Huffington PostProduct Manager of Search, SynacorPHP Developer, TechWebManager, Account Operati (Read More)
New York Times:
In addition to seeding start-ups with small investments, Norwest Venture Partners’s fund will make bigger deals and will branch out from pure technology companies.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey Googlers and Google-watchers, New Yorkers and New York-watchers -- this is your week!It's "Google New York Week" on Silicon Alley Insider.Over the next five days, we're turning our focus on tech's most successful company, its New York outpost, and the people who work there.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Answers T (Read More)
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from Google Reader:
About two weeks ago, Microsoft Corporation laid off their “ambassador to startups” Don Dodge because of a broad workforce reduction. Dodge decided to come to Silicon Valley to do some interviewing shortly after. Google extended an offer to Dodge and he accepted. Now Dodge will become the evangelist to Google Apps. He wi (Read More)
New York Times:
Big technology companies are spending $1.5 billion to buy three high-profile start-ups, after a long drought in acquisitions and initial public offerings. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter and LinkedIn are announcing a deal tonight that will allow LinkedIn users to publish status updates to their Twitter profiles and pull in some or all Twitter updates to their LinkedIn accounts. Wait a minute...the two social media companies with the some of the most valuable, interesting data on the web made a deal (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
We're happy to announce today that we have signed an agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display advertising company based in San Mateo, CA. AdMob is a great Silicon Valley story — founded in 2006 by Omar Hamoui when he couldn't find good ways to generate traffic for his mobile site. Over the past few years, Omar and his t (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Larry Page is now the co-creator of something other than the most important internet site in the world: A tipster whispers he is a father, as of Thursday. (Updated: We have a gender.)Google co-founder Page and model-PhD wife Lucy Southworth's new startup would appear to be going public right on schedule. It was seven months (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The wildly popular nonprofit fundraising application Causes emailed users of its MySpace app on Tuesday to tell them that all Causes will be removed from MySpace on Friday morning, in three days. Causes was co-founded by Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, the Comcast-acquired Plaxo and Founding President of Facebook. MyS (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The good folks at Twitter recently rolled out list-making capabilities for all users, finally catching up to functions that many desktop and web apps have featured for a while.In addition to allowing users to create their own curations, Twitter has also added a basic widget-maker for adding tweets from any user's list to an (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Don't do it, Carol!Yahoo's plans for a huge new office complex in Santa Clara -- revealed in images and video on SAI this morning -- look really neat. Underground parking? A tiny carbon footprint? Cool!Read the rest of this story »See Also:Yahoo's Humongous New HQ -- See Images And Video (YHOO)Yahoo Taps Brakes On Bing-Yaho (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In 2006, in an essay entitled How to Be Silicon Valley, Y-Combinator's Paul Graham laid out what it would take to build the next generation of emerging startup hubs. According to Graham, all that is required are nerds, rich people, personality and a willingness to tolerate odd (but brilliant) ideas. Hawaii probably isn't th (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo is sick of watching everyone else in Silicon Valley thrive by tapping into the worldwide community of developers willing to work for free try their luck building apps and widgets for popular platforms.They see that:iPhones are useful because there's an app for everything in Apple's iTunes store. Facebook makes money s (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Aaron Patzer, the guy who just sold personal finance startup Mint to Intuit for $170 million, recently gave a talk at a startup event explaining how he did it.Some highlights:"Ideas are a dime a dozen; it's the execution that matters."In the early going, force yourself to live on about $30,000 a year. Patzer managed to pull (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Rather than creating an advisory board to decide who would address top tier VC firms, TheFunded and tech TV group VatorNews looked to the public choose presenters. In anticipation of yesterday's JuicePitcher event, hundreds of companies uploaded profiles to VatorTV. The companies who received the most votes landed a 3 minut (Read More)