Apple has completed its deal with Sony for its unannounced upcoming cloud music service, Bloomberg reports. The company wrapped up an agreement with EMI yesterday, and finalized deals with Warner Music Group some time ago. This means there’s only one more major label to go, and it also happens to be the largest: Universal...
Daily Archives: May 19, 2011
LinkedIn IPO: The Startup Ecosystem and the “Zuckerberg Effect”
No one knows what fate– or the NYSE–will have in store for LinkedIn following today’s madcap opening. But venture capitalists like Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley say the company’s $9 billion IPO should have one immediate effect, finally putting to rest Silicon Valley’s long-running apathy toward IPO’s, aka, “The Zuckerberg Effect.” While much hay in investment...
LinkedIn: The Startup Ecosystem and the “Zuckerberg Effect”
No one knows what fate– or the NYSE–will have in store for LinkedIn following today’s madcap opening. But venture capitalists like Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley say the company’s $9 billion IPO should have one immediate effect, finally putting to rest Silicon Valley’s long-running apathy toward IPO’s, aka, “The Zuckerberg Effect.” While much hay in investment...
The End Of Blippy As We Know It
So it turns out that almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases. And also that just adding a social element to a feature isn’t enough to make it useful. The lessons of user adoption are sometimes learned the hard way. Thus is the story of the failure of Blippy, a product that...
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs
Today, we also had a group of 22 gather at the Microsoft Office in Bangalore for a live meetup around the roundtable. The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta. We’re starting to have more of these meetups, and if you are in a...
White Paper: Scaling Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization is a hot topic throughout the virtualization industry. Organizations view desktop virtualization as a way to control costs and use limited resources to manage large-scale desktop infrastructures while increasing security and deployment efficiency. NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse joined forces to create an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture....
LawPivot Takes Its Q&A Legal Advice Site Nationwide
Legal questions about the establishing, incorporating, or funding a startup are among the most common that entrepreneurs have. There’s perhaps a distrust of lawyers and a sense that legal advice will be too costly. As we’ve written about before, LawPivot tackles this problem by providing a place where startups can ask legal questions and...
What Is This Empire Avenue All About?
Empire Avenue is a stock market, but it has one key difference from Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange: it puts a price on people instead of companies. Members use virtual currency to buy and sell shares in other people and websites, and the worth of each “stock” is determined in part by...
Empire Avenue Wants You to Monetize Yourself Before Others Do
Empire Avenue is a stock market, but it has one key difference from Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange: it puts a price on people instead of companies. Members use virtual currency to buy and sell shares in other people and websites, and the worth of each “stock” is determined in part by...
Barnes & Noble Gets $1 Billion Buyout Offer From Liberty (BKS)
Image: AP See Also: Facebook Will Pay $500,000 To $1,000,000 To “Buy” An Engineer Trade In All Your Old Gadgets For Cash At Amazon 5 Unbelievable Ways You’ll Be Using E-Ink Within A Year Liberty Media has offered $1 billion to buy Barnes Noble, the bookseller revealed this evening. The company said it would...