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Mediaco And Scalable Technologies Of Brand Publishing
It might not seem surprising to my readers that I'm working on a project with Mediaco, a Weber Shandwick business that advertises, "We Help Every Company Become A Media Company." Helping companies be...
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Dublin's Web Summit - A Top Show For Startups
Royal Dublin Society is the venue for more than 20,000 people attending Web Summit.I wish I were at Dublin's Web Summit this week. Founded by Paddy Cosgrave, it has become one of Europe's top startup...
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Tibco Now: 25 Virgin Startups Announced
The 25 winners of a startup competition that attracted 2,000 entrants, were announced this week at the Tibco Now conference in San Francisco.(Tibco Software is a former sponsor of SVW.)
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Fly With Me: Airport Security Has No Policies For 'Wearables'
Intel Free Press writers Michael Sheehan and Marcus Yam show their smart watches at IDF 2014.By Intel Free PressThinking of gliding through airport security wearing your new FitBit, Android Wear watch...
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Poland Accelerated: US-Poland Innovation Week
Poland has become one of the best places for US companies to site their R&D and other operations because of the high availability of top engineers and a common cultural base. Polish teams also...
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Living History: Marie Curie 'Historic TED Talk'
San Francisco's Victoria Theatre hosts two performances of the critically acclaimed one-woman show: Manya: The Living History of Marie Curie. I'll be there for the Sunday performance! There is a 20%...
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Weber Shandwick Partners With Niche For Social Media Traffic
Nathalie Tadena at the Wall Street Journal reports on Weber Shandwick's partnership with Niche, an aggregator of more than 5,000 "social media celebrities." Among the social media celebs in Niche's...
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Analysis: Say Media Nixing Media Business In Pivot To Tech
Above, a screen shot of a blog post by Say Media CEO Matt Sanchez.Say Media, the San Francisco publisher of ReadWrite and many other sites, is pivoting into a media tech developer and looking for...
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US Polish Innovation Week - Stellar Panel On Women In Business And Innovation
Among the many events scheduled for US Polish Innovation Week is this star-studded panel at Stanford university offering a global perspective on women working in innovative businesses.It features top...
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News Is Not Free: Uber Exec's Threat Against Reporters Reflects Ugly Amoral...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Photo: JD LasickaUber senior executive Emil Michael's comments that journalists who criticize Uber should have their personal lives investigated and publicized has created yet...
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No Private Bus Or Free Lunch - Weber Shandwick Named A 'Best Place To Work'
I've been spending a lot of time in North Beach, working with teams on Weber Shandwick's Mediaco venture, which is helping companies become media companies. This week Ad Age named Weber Shandwick as...
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Dave Winer On Silicon Valley And Tech: 'Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To...
Dave Winer is a serial innovator and father of the Blogosphere, if such a thing exists anymore. His recent post is one of his best. It's worth reading because he's a long-time Silicon Valley watcher...
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Castlight GigaOm Panel And SAP's 450 Designers...
Om Malik (right), founder of GigaOM at SF Jazz CenterI had lots of great feedback this week from my participation on panel organized by Castlight Health, a San Francisco based startup focused on making...
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Saturday Post: Silicon Valley's Liquid Amorality - Water Will Find Its Way
The Facebook campus sits next to colorful algae on salt flats along San Francisco Bay.Ten years ago in mid 2004 I left the Financial Times and started publishing Silicon Valley Watcher. Silicon Valley...
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Digital Transformation: Paperless Restrooms Send User Generated Alerts
Flush with the success of a pilot program at its Silicon Valley HQ, Intel is rolling out digital restrooms across 22 campuses globally. From overflowing toilets to empty towel dispensers to faulty...
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Vectors Of Engagement And The Click-Free Digital Economy
A click is unreliable because its origins can be easily obscured for fraudulent reasons and its use as a metric of engagement is incomplete and deeply flawed.There's a clue to where things are headed...
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Mass Editorial Exodus At New Republic As Media Industry Woes Accelerate
Turmoil at the venerable New Republic. Dylan Byers at Politico reports:Nine of the magazine's twelve senior editors submitted letters of resignation to owner Chris Hughes and chief executive Guy Vidra,...
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Analysis: InPowered's Bold Anti-Clickbait Strategy: Clicks For Free, Pay Only...
The future looks bright for Peyman Nilforoush, CEO of inPowered.InPowered this week announced that its news story promotion service for large brands would not charge for clicks but only for engagement...
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Huddle Raises $51m For Enterprise Collaboration Push
Huddle, the UK founded enterprise collaboration service, has raised $51 million to finance a large expansion.Headquartered in San Francisco, Huddle is experiencing a boom in business and says the...
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Top Brazilian Startups Demo In Stormy San Francisco
Photo credit: Chris Knight.Rainy weather didn't dampen the enthusiasm shown by young Brazilian entrepreneurs at "Start-up Brasil Demo Day," reports Chris Knight.Guest post by Chris KnightIt was a...
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