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Kevin Covert: Preparing For A Silicon Valley M&A Boom In New Media
Investment banker Kevin Covert is increasing staff at his company, Covert & Co, up to prepare for an M&A bonanza in Silicon Valley. He says that the conditions are great for M&A especially...
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Curation Can Create A Snapshot Of Our Digital Lives
As our lives become increasingly digital curation tools can provide a good way to document our activities, capturing a snapshot of key events and moments.
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Twitter Is 5 Years Old - What's Its Future? It's In The Tweets...
Twitter celebrates it 5 year anniversary today. It's a fascinating service, one that has been very useful to me and my line of work. And others like it too.I'm always fascinated by how much, or little,...
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Here's Why GOOG Should Bid For T-Mobile...
Foremski's Take: The potential acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T [T] is bad news for Silicon Valley with its strong focus on the consumer: search, social networks, and a spectrum of cloud based...
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Google Opens African Startup Incubator Umbono
Nur Bremmen reporting on Memburn writes that Google has chosen Cape Town in South Africa for a pilot startup incubator called Umbono - Zulu for “vision”, “sight” or “idea”.
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Coming Up: Poland Day Investment Seminar At - Facebook Palo Alto
This Saturday, March 26, the US-Polish Trade Council is hosting "Poland Day" a seminar focused on business investments and the relationship between Silicon Valley and Poland.The event starts promptly...
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Arktan Launches Live Blogging Platform - First App On Echo Streamserver
Arktan has launched a live blogging platform - the first commercial app based on Echo StreamServer.The company said it has already signed up several large media organizations. They plan to use the...
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Color: A $41m Bet On A Radical Social Mobile App
Last week I was in Palo Alto, drenched by torrential rains but happy to catchup with serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen and hear about his remarkable new startup Color, which today launched its iPhone and...
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Here's How Demand Media Works: Infographic
Here's a cool infographic from OnlineMBA.com which explains how Demand Media works (but not why its valuation is greater than the New York Times): (Hat tip Kate Hersch.)
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Is Curation A Flash In The Pan?
It's clear that the interest of Internet users can be very fickle indeed. Sites and services can have sudden boosts of popularity and then pretty much disappear from view.I'm thinking of Quora as one...
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How Yuri Milner Made Billions In The New Bubble
Craig Mellow, at The Deal Magazine has a fascinating profile of Yuri Milner, the Russian investment banker who runs Digital Sky Technologies, a multi-billion dollar fund. Close connections (The Deal...
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Here's How Google Avoids Paying Taxes...
There's a fascinating article by Lisa O'Carroll in the UK Guardian newspaper about corporate taxes and how Google [GOOG] uses Bermuda and Dublin, Ireland to shelter taxes.Here's how it works:- Google's...
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Support Good Journalism And 'Pay The Wall'
I don't understand the current debate over the New York Times paywall. Yes, it has holes in it and yes it is a bit lame but the question it asks is: will you support quality journalism?That's an...
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Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum Launches Online "Revolution"
The Computer History Museum this morning launched "Revolution" an online exhibit featuring images, video, and stories chronicling the development of key computer technologies.More than 4500 pages are...
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Blekko And The Future Of Search...
On the eve of Google's launch of an experimental feature that allows users to recommend search results, Blekko, the curated search engine, hosted a lively dinner in San Francisco with journalists to...
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BitTorrent Offers Free Novel Download
BitTorrent is trying to clean up its image and position itself as a valuable and viable media distribution platform. It has been distributing movies and music as part of its "BitTorrent Artist...
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Edelman Barometer Trend: Corporations And Social Responsibility
I popped into Edelman's San Francisco offices to hear a presentation on the findings of this year's Edelman Trust Barometer - a global survey measuring "trust" in institutions.One of the key findings...
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Upcoming Silicon Valley Events: Paul Allen and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
The Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley is hosting Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft on April 26.And Julius Genachowski - Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on April 14.Here are the...
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VCs Looking For "Curation" Startups - Is A Curation Bubble Forming?
As the subject of curation takes off VCs are funding more "curation" startups which could likely lead to a bubble in this sector.VCs are beginning to talk publicly about "curation" which means they are...
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Charlie Sheen To Join HP Board, Follows Appointment Of Will.i.am At Intel
Hewlett-Packard [HPQ] will announce that Charlie Sheen has joined its board of directors as part of a growing trend by Silicon Valley tech giants to harness the power of celebrity.The announcement...
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