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Nov 21 2009
Carol Bartz, the still new CEO of Yahoo, convened her first meeting for Wall Street analysts a few weeks ago. Forget the specifics for a moment. She could have been talking about another iconic Silicon Valley company that had gone astray under...
Nov 14 2009
In order to perk up the Google Voice, the company has acquired Gizmo5, a Voice over the Internet Protocol network and software provider. While there isn’t any official price listed as of now, but word on the Internet claim that it could have been...
Nov 10 2009
In a push to expand its digital advertising empire to cellphones, Google has agreed to acquire AdMob, a fast-growing mobile advertising start-up, for $750 million in stock. AdMob is one of the top sellers of banner ads on iPhone applications and Web...
Nov 6 2009
In order to get into the ‘multicultural’ land of Linux distributions, Skype has decided to work on an open source UI layer for its Linux VoIP client. Now the Linux developers would be in a position to influence the development of the Skype...
Nov 6 2009
In a perfect world a startup would build a perfect product with support from the perfect investor that relies on the enthusiasm from satisfied users and their word-to-mouth to become successful. The reality is that tip-toe funding combined with...
Nov 3 2009
The fact remains that most start-ups fail, so success is still surprising.. But it seems like failure does not need to be. There is clearly a huge amount of grey area - the wild card start-ups that vacillates between success and failure. But at least...
Oct 28 2009
10. Identify long-term personal purpose. Write a personal mission statement, to review often. 9. Be an entrepreneur from anywhere. Even if you don’t start a business (now), imagine starting a project that will improve your current job, workplace,...
Oct 24 2009
Twitter brokers a deal that offers search engines Microsoft Bing and Google Search access to their real time data streams. Also, Facebook, offers up public status updates to be searched and served up to Microsoft’s Bing. This trend towards micro...
Oct 21 2009
The news comes from a technology analyst from Northeast Securities who said he has inside knowledge that Google will produce a netbook and smartphone using Qualcomm chips. The smartphone would be unlocked and would supposedly feature even deeper Google...
Oct 16 2009
Companies that did a clumsy job of managing cost-cutting and restructuring during the downturn are particularly at risk of losing their best talent as conditions improve. Given plummeting revenues and the need to get costs under control, many firms...