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Living In The Shadow Of The Googleplex: The Takeover Of Mountain View
Sean Hollister reporting for The Verge, has written an excellent article about Google’s ambitious plans for expansion in Mountain View, where it is now the largest employer with almost 10% of the local...
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Coming Up SFCreators Salon: Trust And Native Advertising
Last month at SFCreators media salon we had a great turnout and a great subject: Content marketing. I helped facilitate a panel organized by Steve Farnsworth (above, right) with Erin Robbins O’Brien...
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Early Tech Journalist Dan Farber Leaves CBS/CNET
I’m republishing my recent profile and tribute to Dan Farber following his announcement a “New morning.”After more than 30 years working for various media companies as a writer, reporter, blogger,...
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A Glimpse Into Intel's Wireless Future
Above, Intel’s invite-only wireless lab previews upcoming technologies.Intel is working hard to catch up with Qualcomm and ARM in mobile and wireless technologies, and it is trying to jump ahead to...
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InPowered Launches Free Trusted Content Discovery And Sharing Tools As Lead...
Co-founders of InPowered and NetShelter: Peyman Nilforoush and Pirouz Nilforoush.InPowered today launched a free version of its trusted content discovery and promotion services as a way of gaining new...
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Andreessen's News Media Analysis Ridiculed
Above, right, Marc Andreessen on shares a joke with Jeff Immelt from GE.Marc Andreessen is famous as an extremely successful investor in Silicon Valley startups and that means he knows a thing or two...
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Scoop! NASDAQ Finally Launches Private Company Market
It’s taken a while to do it but finally NASDAQ Private Market has launched as a “new capital marketplace for private companies.”I had the scoop on this back in late 2012. Robert McCooey (above),...
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Intel CMO Is Leaving Amid Other Changes At Chip Giant
Deborah Conrad, Chief Marketing Officer at Intel, is leaving in April. The company said it has not yet found a replacement.
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Next SF Creators Media Salon Is March 13 @ InPowered In SF
InPowered will be hosting the next SF Curators Salon on March 13 with the main topic: Trust and Native Advertising. Here are the details:
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Announces 10 Grants For 'New Digital Age'- No...
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, announced ten recipients of “New Digital Age” grants funded by a $1 million gift from him and his wife Wendy Schmidt.The goal:
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Fortune: eBay CEO Says 'Everyone Wants PayPal'
Fortune’s JP Mangalindan interviewed eBay CEO John Donahue about Carl Icahn, board conflicts, and company strategy.It’s a hard hitting interview and there’s some interesting replies:
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LinkedIn And MetroNet Want More Women In Tech - (Women Rule Social Media!)
Women are only 30% of tech workforce, and only 15% in software engineering so there’s a long way to go to mirror the 50% split in the general workforce. One way is to increase the number of women...
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Trust And Content Marketing: The Curious Case Of LonelyGirl15...
The BBC recently asked permission to use this story as a case study for an upcoming programme, Silicon Valley Watcher's discovery of the identity of LonelyGirl15.At the end of the summer of 2006 we had...
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Feeding The Beast Of Content Marketing And How To Earn Trust
We know that every company is a media company and therefore every company needs to create content. But trust in media content has to be earned and there is but one way: constant publishing of...
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Twitter's Biz Stone: 'Hallucinogenic Optimist'
John Helpern at Vanity Fair has lunch with Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter. They eat at one of my favorite spots: Liverpool Lil’s. Biz Stone speaks very humbly despite his hundreds of millions of...
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Commonwealth Club Events: Matt Taibbi, Jared Diamond, Nicholas Carr, Jeremy...
I’m looking forward to seeing Matt Taibbi, a scathing critic of Wall Street, at The Commonwealth Club April 10 in San Francisco. He recently left Rolling Stone and joined Pierre Omidyar’s $250m media...
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The Problem Of Scale: Building The Next Big Silicon Valley Company
I spotted this recently from CB Insights: 67% of Tech M&A Exits in 2013 Went to Early-Stage StartupsThe headlines may obsess over the WhatsApps and Twitters of the world, but the reality is most...
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This Is How Stephen Hawking Rolls... With A Posse Of Intel Engineers
By Intel Free PressIntel engineers have created a custom-built computer system for Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical astrophysicist, for his travels. He is completely dependent on his chair for...
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To Give Or Not To Give: The Stingiest Philanthropists: Bezos, Page, Ballmer...
Inside Philanthropy has a fascinating list of the top philanthropists in the tech industry (you’ll be surprised at who is at the top: Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, the original founders of Cisco...
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SF Creators Salon: Rediscovering The Lessons Of Trust And Independent Media
The recent SF Creators Salon focused on the topic of trust and content marketing and as usual, it was a lively evening hosted at InPowered’s community space in San Francisco.
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