Huffington Post:
SAN FRANCISCO — The Sacramento Monarchs folded on Friday, a shocking and disappointing development for the WNBA and one of its original eight franchises.The decision was largely based on the Maloof family's desire to focus al (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
We're not sure how wide spread it is, but I'm seeing a whole lot of reports that Verizon's 3G data network is down in various parts of the country. The majority of the reports seem to be coming out of the SF Bay Area and Sout (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Google showed off an update of its forthcoming Chrome OS operating system at its headquarters in Silicon Valley today.The whole point of the operating system -- meant for simple computers and launching in about a year -- is t (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
If you hear a CEO say it's time to build a new headquarters, watch out.There's a long and inglorious history of companies building new homes for themselves, only to have their businesses collapse a few years later.Read the re (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 tw (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
Mashable!:
Merger Monday is back in the tech space. Just hours after Electronic Arts announced it was buying social gaming outfit Playfish for up to $400 million, Google has announced that it’s buying mobile ad network AdMob for $750 m (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 coul (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 (Read More)
Huffington Post:
(Fortune magazine) -- How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securiti (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Here's what Mr. Schmidt, a 33-year resident of the Bay Area, had to say about Silicon Valley hiring and the role of the weather in the local labor market:
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CNET News.com:
Silicon Valley start-up launches a hosted business intelligence application for optimizing heating and cooling systems to a given home. (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 (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
paidContent.org:
[by Andrew Clark] If you go by the numbers, a slim Australian with a sharp tongue and a penchant for ultra-skinny ties has become the most powerful newspaper editor in America. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft opened its second retail store in Mission Viejo, Calif., last Thursday. It drew quite a crowd -- some 1,000 people, according to the Orange County Register, via CNET -- in part because Microsoft was giving away conc (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
No one disputes that Silicon Valley is the global capital of the tech world. But this wasn’t always so.It is the Valley’s dynamism and networks which have given it an unassailable advantage. Silicon Valley has simply left riv (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 s (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Lists have rolled out to a majority of users on the site now and the uptake has been remarkable. Things will get truly interesting when lists can by turned into columns in 3rd party clients like Tweetdeck and Seesmic (Read More)