VentureBeat:
“Ten years out we want lamps that use 2 percent the energy and put out the same amount of light,” Doerr said at the beginning of his talk at GreenBeat 2009 today — indicative of his interest and that of his firm, Kleiner Perk (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Digg CEO Jay Adelson told FOX Business tonight that ever since rolling out Digg Ads, the social link-sharing service has been making money and that profitability is right around the corner.Although advertising continues to be (Read More)
VentureBeat:
There’s one day to go before GreenBeat 2009 takes off, and we’re still adding Smart Grid experts to the agenda. Rounding out the program, we have Google PowerMeter engineer (and former astronaut!) Ed Lu, and OPower CEO Dan Ya (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Don Dodge, the Microsoft startup evangelist whose layoff earlier this month was much-bemoaned in the tech community, has landed on his feet, and then some. He has accepted a new job at Google, where it sounds like he’ll be oc (Read More)
VentureBeat:
With high speed Internet connections becoming widely available, the online video market is booming: 25 billion videos were viewed in September alone in the US, according to comScore statistics, twice as many as a year ago. Th (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, and internet marketing nerd. He currently runs a seed-stage investme (Read More)
VentureBeat:
GigaOm’s NewTeeVee Live event, which explores the future of TV, took place in San Francisco today. Though there were a number of interesting demos and presentations, three really stood out as being most likely to shape how w (Read More)
Engadget:
Color us shocked and elated. Boxee, the white-hot startup that has risen from nothing to everywhere thanks to its internet TV software portal, has just announced that a deal has been inked between it and an undisclosed "hardw (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Ken Kutaragi, father of Sony’s PlayStation business, has launched a new Japanese startup called Cyber Ai Entertainment.The name “ai” is a combination of the Japanese word for “love” and a pun on the English word “eye.” A boar (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : Ali BarakaEver thought about starting your own internet business? The answer is yes, I'm sure But I also bet that you're wondering where the heck to start Well read on, because you're in for a real reward!
The sec (Read More)
VentureBeat:
It’s become a cliche: Internet start-ups are inexpensive to launch, and you don’t need multi-million dollars from venture capitalists to back you anymore. As a result, more successful startup founders are adding a new hat, an (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Web annotation is a sexy and increasingly crowded space in the market. As in any such pool, the amount of elbow-rubbing between individuals and similarity between products can lead to suspicion of theft.Annotation startup Ref (Read More)
VentureBeat:
As a web generation, when we’re looking for a dentist, plumber, or other small business, our first instinct is to go online when we need these services. Sure, there’s Yellow Pages that can find a name, number and address, but (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
How to Create a Budget Network Effects And Scale Economies (aka Spolsky vs. Heinemeier) Who’s Your Who’s Who? Getting the right people involved in your startup It's not even 80/20 - 8% of Internet users account for 85% of cli (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Ben Behrouzi came from the shadowy Lead Generation business, but some people in that field said he played too dirty. Now he's got a real-time search engine that just came out of beta today, called Leapfish, and he says the co (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Bulgaria] One of the biggest problems Internet users face everyday is how difficult it has become to follow news streams from many different sources without getting lost in the noise — from the online sites of mainstream med (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Sony posted its fourth consecutive loss, but consumer electronics in general is turning around – Sony lost $289 million last quarter, compared to almost the same amount in profits last year. The company has already eliminated (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Marc Benioff has been the reliably outspoken chief executive of Salesforce.com for 10 years. Salesforce was one of the pioneers of the software-as-a-service business model, where traditional software is replaced by a web-base (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This post sponsored by Venture Northwest.The Northwest’s hottest emerging businesses are on the rise at OEN’s Venture Northwest 2009. Even better, now there are two ways to hear about new investment opportuniti (Read More)