2012 StartupWatch: Echo Expanding With Key Hires
I'm a big fan of Khris Loux's Echo, which has a fascinating real-time media technology that will only become more important as large media and brand companies try to get their heads, and hands, around...
View ArticleInsurance And Finance Top Google Customers In 2011 - Revenue Breakdown
Which industries and companies were Google's top spenders in 2011? Did you know that "Self Employed Health Insurance" cost $43 per click? Here's a fascinating infographic that breaks down the $38...
View ArticleHacks And Ca$h: Silicon Valley Outspent Hollywood in Washington
There is a widespread perception that Hollywood's media industries have friends in high places because they have spent money buying influence compared with the poor tech industry. But Reuters reports...
View ArticleHere's Why Apple Won't Reign-in Its Lawyers Anytime Soon...
Apple has been waging legal battles against rivals such as Samsung. It may have spent more than $100 million on legal bills in 2011.Tim O'Reilly, the influential CEO of book and conference company of...
View ArticleSearching For Race In Social Media - US Government Program Targets Hispanics
Dana Oshiro, publishing analyst at ad network NetShelter, poses an interesting question: "how do you determine race and ethnicity online? "This question arose from her recent attendance at the White...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship is a fundamental human expression whose absence is always a...
A group of Indian students at Velammal Engineering College are putting together a book: "500 Definitions Of Entrepreneurship" and they asked me for my definition. Here's what I sent:
View ArticleCould Buildings Be Improved If They Were Designed Like A Web App?
David Galbraith has embarked on a fascinating journey, exploring the notion that the flow of people and their interactions inside buildings, is similar in design to the flow of data and user...
View ArticleHow Ousted Company Leaders Continue To "Manage From The Grave"
Lucy Marcus makes some excellent points in this article from Reuters' Blogs: Lead from the front, or manage from the grave? | Lucy P. MarcusShe shows how boards of directors at RIM, and Yahoo, are...
View ArticleFacebook Use Is Linked To Depression... And More Sex
This study of time spent on Facebook by 425 College students is depressing:MediaPost - Facebook Correlated with Low Self Esteem
View ArticleThe Coming Merger Of Power + Data - Apple Patent
I've long thought that electric and computer power will eventually be mixed. There used to be various ways of using a home's electric power lines to guide data connections to every room but wireless...
View ArticleMediaWatch Analysis: Should The Tech Industry Buy The Content Industry?
Should Apple buy Hollywood? Should Google buy the New York Times? Foremski's Take: People in the tech communities have long discussed the need for tech companies to buy media companies. More recently,...
View ArticleBay Meadows Urban Office Campus Opens Up Massive Space
San Francisco is straining to accomodate demand from large and small tech companies but not far down the road a massive new office space has just opened up.
View ArticleWill Massive $1.5 Billion Andreessen Fund Inflate The Bubble In Private...
(Photo:By Joi Ito.)Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz made their reputation as savvy investors by making lots of small seed investments of up to $100,000. This then helped them raise billions of dollars,...
View ArticleReport: Facebook IPO Halved -- Its Valuation Could Skyrocket Above $100bn
International Financing Review, a Thomson Reuters publication, reports that its Wall Street sources point to a far smaller Facebook IPO, raising about $5 billion instead of the expected $10 billion.
View ArticleWhat To Watch: Will Zuckerberg's IPO Letter Be As Awesome As Larry Page's?
The same media frenzy of interest that we see today in the Facebook IPO we saw with Google in 2004...I remember vividly the day Google filed its "red herring" with the SEC in preparation for its IPO. I...
View ArticleA Tale Of Two Letters: Facebook's Vague Social Mission
Facebook's IPO documents reveals a far different culture to that of neighboring rival Google...Mark Zuckerberg's letter to prospective shareholders was incredibly vague about his company's "social...
View ArticleFacebook's Hidden Gold Mine - What The Others Have Missed
Several reporters have pointed to a big risk that they discovered in Facebook's SEC filing: mobile.
View ArticleThe Art Of 'Goldilocks' SEO
I always pay attention to Aaron Wall, who runs SEOBook, because he is always on the money. He is one of the very few Google Watchers that is consistently insightful and isn't afraid of writing hard...
View ArticleThe Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley's Startup Boom...
In San Francisco cafes and bars, even on the street, I overhear people talking about their startup ideas, business plans, and goals. And there are tons of incubators, Angels, wannabe Angels, VC firms,...
View ArticlePRWatch: Example From A VC On Writing A (Linkless) News Release...
Ben Horowitz, the slightly hairier one in the powerhouse VC duo of Andreessen Horowitz, wrote an interesting post about the future of networking that also serves as a very good example of what a news...
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