FT.com - Arts & weekend, House & home:
Aside from the aesthetic benefit, the greening of the San Francisco urban landscape helps reduce global warming. It has also created a habitat for wildlife and brought a sense of community. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
“Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” – Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook.Today, at our RealTime Crunc (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At our Real-Time CrunchUp today in San Francisco, we are hosting a panel titles “Media Streams: Are These The Utlimate Marketing Vehicle?”Panelists include Sean Rad, CEO of Ad.ly; Ryan Amos, co-founder of DailyBooth; Jesse En (Read More)
FT.com - Arts & weekend, Food & drink:
The southern European version of London's Borough Market has stalls upon stalls of gourmet food, including tapas, fine wines and delicious desserts. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco, the first roundtable is entitled “Filtering the Stream: Getting Rid of the Noise.”The panel is populated by a lot of big players in the space: Facebook, VP of Product Chr (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at the second TechCrunch RealTime CrunchUp in San Francisco, where we’ll be taking a deeper dive into realtime technology and where the streams are taking us. Kicking off the event is a conversation with Twitter CO (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation.Twitter is one of the hottest play (Read More)
FT Alphaville:
US authorities blocked Minsheng, the Chinese bank, from acquiring a Californian lender in a deal that could have saved almost $300m of taxpayers’ money and $1.4bn from an industry insurance fund, it has emerged. Minsheng had (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Tomorrow’s Real Time CrunchUp in San Francisco is going to be a blast. It’s an all day event absolutely filled with the thought and business leaders in the space, as well as a whole slew of newcomers launching new startups.An (Read More)
Knowledge Hemispheres Consolidated Feed for New Media:
Gabe Rivera, founder of news aggregator Techmeme. Credit: Mark Milian/Los Angeles Times.Don't tell News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, but technology news aggregator Techmeme is raking in profits.Rather than visiting the front page (Read More)
Submitted by sfoskett
from Google Reader:
Lots of folks have switched to Mac, its the most commonly used laptop in the Bay Area now. Sometimes people give me flack for using it, but I'll tell you why I use a Mac laptop:It just works! When going to a client site, a (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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100. Chris Rauschnothttp://themacwizard.com/Las Vegas, Nevada USAChris Rauschnot is a web 2.0 and social media expert. He also has been an Internet Entrepreneur for over 10 years and is a certified apple tech. He has over 2 (Read More)
FT Alphaville:
Wells Fargo has agreed to buy back about $1.4bn of auction-rate securities from investors as part of a settlement with regulators over the collapse of the ARS market. Wells Fargo Investments, a brokerage unit of the San Franc (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
Salesforce.com announced today that it’s going to join the hordes of companies offering a social networking service for your business. With a new product called Salesforce Chatter, companies get their own secure, private soci (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
Active Storage Inc., a Torrance, Calif.-based, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding. Intel Capital led the round, and was joined by Mission Ventures and Valhalla Partners.PRESS RELEASEActive Storage, Inc. toda (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting stro (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re just two days away from our Realtime CrunchUp in San Francisco. The CrunchUp agenda is chock full of goodness. Since our first event back in July, the momentum around realtime has accelerated. We find ourselves awash (Read More)
IBM Redbooks | BladeCenter:
Technote, published: Wed, 18 Nov 2009
The Cisco Systems 4 Gb 20-port and 10-port Fibre Channel Switch Modules for IBM BladeCenter provide high-performance end-to-end SAN solutions using 4 Gb Fibre Channel technology. (Read More)
Tech Blog:
Zynga, the largest social gaming company, has raised an additional $15m in funding, in yet another sign that this nascent industry has quickly become big business in the Valley.The San Francisco company, which operates games (Read More)