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Startup Grind Conference 2014 Is Selling Out - Great Speakers
SVW is a media sponsor of Startup Grind.Startup Grind 2014 Conference is coming up next week February 3-5. It was sold out last year as 1,200 founders took part in an intense, and highly participatory...
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Google Earnings: What Future For Reverse-Hockey Stick AdSense?
AdSense is the red line and it’s been plunging for three quarters.Googgle’s [$GOOG] fourth quarter 2013 financial report is due after close of markets tomorrow (January 30) and the numbers I’ll be...
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Analysis: Larry Page's Smashed Handset Strategy - Google Ends Bid To Be Apple
Google’s handset strategy lies smashed. Google sells its handset business at a huge loss and helps Lenovo finance the deal. It ends an expensive chapter in Google’s attempts to diversify from...
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Holmes Report's Innovation Summit Recognizes Innovators In PR And Media
David Matahai, Director of Marketing Communications at Hyundai.Holmes Report conferences are rapidly becoming my favorite conferences and last week’s Innovation Summit in San Francisco was excellent —...
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Big Data Roundtable: Retailers Discover Connection Between Weather And Sales
I attended the Actian’s Big Data roundtable earlier this week. I was thrilled to be sitting next to Terry Garnett (far left) from Garnett & Helfrich Capital, a very savvy buyout firm that has...
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Is Our Technology Making Us Autistic? Be Here Right Now...
I saw the above at a San Francisco bus stop and it reminded me of this excerpt from an article written by Curt Woodward senior editor at Xconomy, about Google's top echelon:
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Original Ideas In Silicon Valley Are Like Bitcoins
I’ve started noticing some correlations between Bitcoins and original ideas in Silicon Valley, which are the necessary sparks of innovation. Few new Bitcoins are being produced because miners have...
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Media Disruption: Time Inc. To Announce Hundreds Of Job Cuts
The disruption of the business of media by Internet media companies continues, as Time Inc. is expected to announce as many as 500 jobs cuts today, reports Kieth Kelly at the New York Post:Around...
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Salesforce's Benioff Warns Of More Civil Disobedience, Has A Plan To 'Fix San...
It’s good to see Marc Benioff, CEO of San Francisco’s largest tech firm, Salesforce and a fourth generation San Franciscan, stepping into a leadership role to calm community conflict over the tech...
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Ron Conway Calls For 1 million Volunteer Hours In 2014
Ron Conway, a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Monday called for 1 million volunteer hours at the Crunchies awards show. He also said he would match up to $12,000 in charitable contributions...
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Upcoming February 13: Catalyst Highlights Middle East Entrepreneurs
Coming up on February 13, Progress in Technology Middle East (PITME) has organized Catalyst -- a San Francisco conference that highlights startup investment opportunities in the Middle East.Israel has...
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2014 Edelman Trust Barometer: Tech Industry Risks Loss Of Trust As Government...
The 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer, a global survey of 27,000 people in 27 countries, found that trust in government has fallen to its lowest levels, and the gap between business and government trust has...
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Intel Hires 16yr Old Prodigy
16-year-old Joey Hudy is the youngest ever hired for Intel’s corporate internship program.By Intel Free PressAt the White House Science Fair last year, 16-year-old Joey Hudy demonstrated for President...
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Little Bird Raises $1.7m From Oregon Angels
Marshall Kirkpatrick, CEO of Little Bird. Little Bird, an Oregon based startup that identifies experts on Twitter, has raised $1.7m in new funding, reports Lora Kolodny at Venture Capital Dispatch on...
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I Don't Believe It - Om Malik Exits Journalism For Life As A VC
Om Malik at the Crunchies in January 2014.Om Malik, founder of tech news and market research site Gigaom says he is “hanging up my reporter’s notebook” and is becoming a partner at True Ventures, the...
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Frontline's Disappointing 'Generation Like'
I’m a huge fan of Frontline but there’s not much that’s new in it’s latest report: “Generation Like.” There’s not even a mention of how corporations are gaming the system of “likes” and it portrays the...
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Cyphort's ATD Suite Detects Target Malware Variants
Cyphort, a San Jose, CA, based security firm, this week said it has emerged from stealth mode with the official launch of its advanced threat detection (ATD) platform, which is able to detect malware...
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AlertID: Neighborhood Crime Data Services
AlertID, based in Las Vegas, is expanding its services. It acts as a crime alert service for about 1 million users and covers about 85% of US zip codes. It’s also a messaging platform for neighborhood...
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Native Advertising And Trust - Goal Is To Mislead Readers
Bob Garfield, co-host of On the Media on NPR, wrote a column in The Guardian newspaper critical of native advertising: If native advertising is so harmless, why does it rely on misleading readers?
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