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Silicon Valley Honors Four Visionaries: A Top VC, An Educator, A Journalist,...
Next week SVForum will honor four extraordinary people with its 2012 Visionary Awards, a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship that is in its 15th year. The awards go to:
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Pew Report On Teenage Video Habits
The Pew Research Center recently published a report on teen online video habits. There's a few interesting tidbits, such as that younger teens are less interested in online video than older teens; and...
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The Flaws In Facebook And ComScore's Social Ad Study
Facebook seems to have succeeded somewhat, in holding back widespread concerns about the effectiveness of its advertising platform with a recent paid-for study by comScore, in the wake of GM's...
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Advice From A Top VC: Big Data Insights From 'Cloud' Companies And The 'Death...
Silicon Valley VC firm Emergence Capital Partners was an early investor in Salesforce.com and now works exclusively with cloud-based startups primarily focused on business customers. Gordon Ritter...
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The Best Innovators See David In The Marble Block ... And Know How To Use A...
Om Malik from GigaOm writes: The present isn't as interesting to most of us who live here, mostly because that would mean accepting the status quo. Instead, guys like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey...
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Father's Day Thoughts: Startups And Immigrants Have Much In Common
I was thinking about my dad today (Father's Day in the US), he passed away last year. The photo (above) shows him holding me, (8 months old) and was taken shortly after my parents had escaped Poland...
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Because Disruptive Technologies Disrupt -- New Layoffs In Media Industry......
Fairfax, the second largest Australian newspaper publisher, said it would cut 1900 jobs, almost 20% of its staff. I was asked for comment by the Australian Broadcast Service, which was concerned about...
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Millennials And The Backlash Against 'Creepy Stalker' Technologies
Melanie Shreffler, editor-in-chief of Ypulse, a youth market research firm, wrote an interesting article recently: It's Possible There's Too Much Technology In Our Lives, Even For Millennials We're...
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Silicon Valley Heavyweights Back Diabetes Startup Glooko
Glooko, a startup that lets people monitor their blood glucose levels using their iPhone, announced a who's who list of Silicon Valley backers, investing an undisclosed amount. Glooko is founded by...
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SVForum Visionary Awards 2012 - Photos
The SVForum Visionary Awards were excellent, as usual. Here are some photos in a slideshow format of Silicon Valley's top innovators and investors celebrating this year's winners. I will be posting...
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Silicon Valley And Las Vegas Thrive On Failure
Silicon Valley and Las Vegas are similar - both thrive on failure. The difference is that if you fail in Las Vegas you have to leave town. If you fail in Silicon Valley, you can stay and play again --...
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Salman Khan: A Low-Tech High-Impact Visionary
(Above, is a brief extract of Salman Khan's speech at SVForum 2012 Visionary Awards.) I had the enormous privilege of shaking the hand of Salman Khan, at the SVForum Visionary Awards earlier this week....
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Is This Why Larry Ellison Bought Lanai?
Larry Ellison has assured residents of Lanai, the Hawaiian island he has purchased for about $500 million, that he plans no changes to their homes and resorts. But what about below ground? The Lanai...
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Competitive Coding And Dreams Of Winning A Medal At The Olympics of Informatics
Hackathons everywhere, most weekends there's probably one near you. Hundreds of app developers competing for cash, trips, and seed capital. This past weekend, AOL in Palo Alto (above), hosted...
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Is CliQr The Key To Google's IT Ambitions?
CliQr Technologies today emerged from stealth mode with the announcement of a cloud based service that can port large enterprise applications to any cloud platform in under one day. If the Palo Alto...
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Are You Ready For The Human--Cell Phone Mind Meld?
("You think you like your cell phone now? Imagine when they can read your thoughts," says researcher Joshua Smith (above))By Intel Free PressSensors are everywhere around us from smartphone...
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Google's 'Q' Ball Is Pocketed - Better Products Already Exist
Google's Nexus Q "media streaming" device costs $299, requires speakers and a TV although it does have a small amplifier, better products already exist.Sonos sells a compact $299 wireless speaker, the...
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Lessons From Cisco's 'the network' - The Corporation As A Media Company
Earlier this week I popped into the Grand Hyatt on Union Square (above) for Cisco's celebration of the first anniversary of publishing "the network" an online publication that employs a large group of...
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Computers Want To Be Touched: Here's How It Works
(Above: Capacitive touchscreens use an electrostatic field to continuously sample the screen surface for movement and relays that information to a processor that can interpret it. )I've long been...
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Media Under Seige: Billionaire Gina Rinehart Changes Strategy On Fairfax Media
BBC News reports that mining mogul Gina Rinehart, one of the world's richest people, has reduced her stake in troubled Fairfax Media, Australia's second largest media group.Ms Rinehart, whose wealth...
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