ReadWriteWeb:
After tech heavy hitters like Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble and Fred Wilson expressed public outrage over its pay-to-play fees, the Keiretsu Forum has begun waiving fees for early-stage startup presentations. According to Pe (Read More)
Valleywag:
Yahoo has apologized for providing lap dances on stage at a Tawian programming event. Critics aren't mollified, and that's probably just as well: it's all but certain something like this will happen again soon.Certain, that i (Read More)
Submitted by morgan
from Google Reader:
Sorry folks. Work has been keeping me running like crazy the past two months. There is a lot happening around LA and the OC this month, with a couple big name conferences to boot, and not to mention Sir Richard Branson’s ap (Read More)
Submitted by jungleg
from Google Reader:
On Tuesday, October 13th, at 6:30PM, 100 Founders and CEO’s of NYC tech companies will gather at Sun Microsystems for nextNY’s “NYC Media: Meet the startups” event. The idea behind the event was that, on a pretty regular bas (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I’m writing this from the ‘club section’ (whatever that is) from San Francisco’s AT&T Park where, if I understand the scoring correctly (I don’t), the Cubs are leading the Giants 4-1. I’ve just eaten my second hot dog and I’m (Read More)
Valleywag:
Concentrate engineers and tech executives in one conference hall, and the ensuing sausagefest is bound to produce some moments truly offensive to women and foreigners. Just ask the organizers of TechCrunch 50 and Demo about t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
With DEMOfall 09 now behind us, pitch season has given us a lot of "Wow": solid businesses with promising applications. The majority of new ventures we're seeing today are variations on familiar themes, new combinations of ol (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s been just under a year since Yammer, the ‘Twitter for businesses’, launched at TechCrunch 50 and won the conference’s top prize. Since then the service has seen steady growth, with over 40,000 networks signed up for the (Read More)
Twitter / JasonCalacanis:
JasonCalacanis: @Konatbone you rock for couchsurf-hosting Techcrunch50 - r/t yo! techcrunch 50 entrepreneurs... mi casa es su casa! - http://su.pr/2uAB6A. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A ManifestoI believe in Twitter. I believe people want to use it and that it is useful to them. I’m less sure of its susceptibility to monetization, but then again, I cover cameras and ramen-bots, not internet business. Still (Read More)
TechCrunch:
“Are Penn and Teller really launching a product at TechCrunch 50?”As I typed the message to Arrington, I could barely contain my glee. “…because if so, my column this week just wrote itself.”For a few strange years, starting (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
I attended the inaugural event of the AR Commons in Tokyo today, a new initiative that's supposed to help set "standards of augmented reality as a public environment". In other words, the symposium is an attempt to understand (Read More)
Valleywag:
Even as Wall Street rallied last month, Peter Thiel's hedge fund lost close to $25 million, according to leaked documents obtained by the Valleywah. Maybe this is why the PayPal founder has been grumpily calling people "fraud (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Part New Tech, part Tech Set, all Southern California, the Twiistup events are a product of the rampantly blossoming Los Angeles tech scene. They combine an admixture of micro- and mainstream celebrity with Hollywood producti (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo who is famous for his Twitter-follower envy (and is our partner in organizing the TechCrunch 50 conference), now is trying his hand at his own Web video talk show. It is called This Week In (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
When Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York last year, he invoked a phrase that should be a fundamental guiding principal for every entrepreneur: "As human beings, our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Adgregate Markets, a TechCrunch 50 startup, has signed a distribution deal with Google’s DoubleClick. Adgregate’s ShopAds allow consumers to browse, interact, and ultimately purchase directly within an ad unit. Normal display (Read More)
TechCrunch:
TEL AVIV– The other day I spoke at an Israeli event called Techonomy where six handpicked Israeli startups were demoing new products. The companies were impressive, the audience packed, it was sponsored by blue-chip tech name (Read More)