Intel's Battle For Female Talent In China
By Intel Free PressIt is the world's second-largest economy and the world's largest labor force. It is China, and Intel is recruiting talented women who live there or want to return — women who are...
View ArticleI'm In Warsaw All This Week...
My apologies, I haven't been able to post much lately because I was in London keynoting an Omnicom conference last week for its senior European leadership teams and this week I'm in Warsaw with my...
View ArticlePervasive Software: Betting On A Big Data Hadoop Future
I recently met with Mike Hoskins, EVP & CTO of Pervasive Software, based in Austin, Texas. It's an interesting company that combines a large legacy database management system with developing...
View ArticleBiz Stone's Departure From Twitter Was Predictable
Earlier this year I predicted that Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone wouldn't be around for long. How did I do this?It was simple:
View ArticleIntel Seeds Tablet Market With Best "Recipe" Designs
By Intel Free PressWhile many top chefs might hold on to their most precious family recipes, Francois Piednoel is touring the Asia giving away what he calls his "recipe" for building an Atom...
View ArticleIt's Time For PR Community To Grow Some Cojones And Out Silicon Valley Bullies
Vanessa Camones is a veteran PR professional. She is the founder of theMIX agency and today she did a very bold thing: she outed one of Silicon Valley's leading personalities, Mike Arrington, the...
View ArticleCuration Watch: New Pearltrees Simplifies Sharing And Publishing
(Pearltrees is a consulting client.)Pearltrees this week released a version of its online curation service that allows it to be embedded in Facebook walls and makes it easier to share Pearls of content...
View ArticleStartup Launch: MyTab Offers Simple Group Travel Gifting
I've been consulting with Heddi Cundle and her new startup MyTab, which offers a very simple way friends and family can help fund travel for each other.
View ArticleCisco Criticized For China Surveillance Project
Cisco Systems is helping the Chinese government build a massive surveillance system that will include more than 500,000 cameras. The Wall Street Journal reported that the "Peaceful Chongqing" project...
View ArticleInterview With Google's "Content Tzar" Former BBC Journalist Peter Barron
By Nur Bremmen, MemeBurnIt's not easy to run an online content business in an age where everyone is a publisher. Everyone is doing it and there's never been competition in the content business like...
View ArticleLeaving Silicon Valley...
Leaving Silicon Valley -- I highly recommend it. I just got back from a week in London, speaking at an Omnicom conference and then a week in Warsaw (which was excellent). And I'm finding it difficult...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch And The SoDOMM Effect In Social Media
Today's news of the demise of The News of the World newspaper was both shocking and exhilarating: that a 168 year old Sunday newspaper with more than 200 staff, selling almost 3 million copies a week,...
View ArticleWe Live In The Age Of Conversation Overload: G+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn...
I can deal with information overload -- if I didn't get to read that special article everyone is sharing then no big deal. But conversation overload is an entirely different thing.As a journalist I...
View ArticleSpotify: The Unicorn Has Landed...
Last week RDIO CEO Drew Larner called Spotify a "unicorn" because so many people have spoken about its imminent launch but no one has seen it.Thursday Spotify launched in the US with a bang, the music...
View ArticleGOOG Analysis: The Massive Mystery In Google's Finances And Why This Is Bad...
Google [$GOOG] reported stellar 2011 Q2 earnings but Google's partner sites, which used to account for half of its revenues, showed a massive lag in growth.The partner sites are part of Google's...
View ArticleConsumerization Of IT: Intel Allows Staff To Use Their Macs
(It took a while - first pilot program was in 2006 but Intel's IT department has now OK'd the use of Apple computers - Aaron Tersteeg (above) took part in the first pilot program.) By Intel Free...
View ArticleMoneyTree Report: Forget The Bubble The Rise In VC Investments Is Unsustainable
The latest MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters:-Q2 2011 VC investments jump 19% to $7.5...
View ArticleGoogle: Please Give Me A Throat To Choke...
I have a serious problem: my GMail contacts won't load. That means GMail is almost unusable because it won't autocomplete my email addresses. I have to go search and paste email addresses, it's too...
View ArticleUpcoming: SFCurators Salon July 27 Featuring Real Curators!
The next meeting of SFCurators salon will focus on real curators rather than tools.
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