Morgenthaler Ventures is one of those Valley firms who did incredibly well during the Valley’s telecom/networking/enterprise software glory years. For all the dot com headlines in the late 1990s, enterprise software has long been the core of the industry’s returns, and the telecom networking build out was an order or magnitude bigger than the...
The second biggest search engine in Latin America is… Facebook. This comes from a ComScore report on search engine marketshare in Latin America. The other striking finding of the report is that Google has over 90% marketshare there. Meanwhile Facebook has 2.8% and Microsoft is just behind. So Facebook isn’t exactly crushing Google there,...
Apple looks to be galvanising its operations in Korea after it has reported that the Cupertino-based company has appointed Dominique Oh, former Vice President of LG’s Smartphone Business, as its new general manager in Korea. Oh, who still lists LG as his current employer on LinkedIn, was appointed as the new head of Apple’s...
Facebook is becoming more and more like MySpace, and that’s not a good thing for the media business. But don’t worry — I’m not gonna predict that millions and millions of people are ready to abandon Facebook for the next hot thing. In fact, this isn’t even about anything that Facebook, or its users...
TechCrunch Disrupt: San Francisco 2011 winner Qwiki has a hot iPad app (250,000 downloads in 11 days) and plenty of cash. But one thing they no longer have is cofounder Louis Monier. He’s left the company, he tells me, to join Proximic as Chief Scientist. And that means Monier won’t be attending Disrupt next...
Sure, the success of Coelho offline made it comparatively easy for him to translate that to online success. But he also engages with his online communities and posts fresh content daily. A good portion of Coelho’s social media output comes directly from the man himself, although some of it is clearly curated by his...
Over the past couple of years covering Google, there’s one seemingly simple question that comes up again and again, that Google just can’t seem to answer. Why isn’t Chrome a part of Android? Read the wrong way, that could seem like a deep question. But it almost never means “why isn’t Chrome OS simply...