Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog, BothSidesoftheTable. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of startups in the past 2 years. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5 years ago we read the “RIP...
Gomez, a provider of Internet performance stats, has compiled its knowledge into a visual map of the world that uses colors to show how fast web sites are performing for customers in various geographies. The map showcases aspects such as DNS lookup times, throughput, response times, and other elements, with green meaning everything is...
Remember Modu, the Israeli phone maker who never quite found a market for its itty bitty cell phones? That’s ok if you don’t, because the semi-omniscient Google does. Back in 2008, Modu came up with a tiny modular cell phone that could slip into a number of different sleeves to be able to perform...
One year your company has $45 million in funding, and the next you’ve been delisted from the NASDAQ. It’s just another day in the life of a founder. And it’s exactly what happened to entrepreneur Eric J. Kuhn. Kuhn started Varsity Books, an online marketplace for college textbooks in 1999. After receiving a massive...
Okay, okay. Sony has had a lot to deal with of late, what with its Playstation network being hacked and subsequently being taken offline for quite some time. But we believe that Sony has been hacked yet again, this time its Sony Thailand’s website. As security firm f-secure reports, Sony Thailand’s hdworld.sony.co.th URL has...
Amidst all of the champagne cork-popping and bubble talk in the wake of the LinkedIn IPO Thursday morning (high-five to Reid Hoffman) I’ll offer up this downer of an article: the LinkedIn IPO is bad for the cleantech industry. No, not for the future progress of green technologies in general — LinkedIn’s stock shooting...
Apple is furiously negotiating with the record labels to finalize deals which will allow it to stream music from the Internet to mobile devices (iPhones, iPads, iPods) and computers. It just came to terms with Sony Music, according to a Bloomberg report, which means that of the four major labels it’s got three down...
The way the Chinese government manages the Internet in accordance with law is a sovereign matter and foreign courts have no jurisdiction according to international law, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told China Daily in a news conference. Jiang’s statement was said in response to the recent lawsuit in which eight New York residents accused...
Google’s project to digitize the entirety of the world’s newspaper archives has been shut down, Search Engine Land reports. In the three years the project has been running, around 2,000 newspapers spanning decades have been digitized, not just making it easier than ever to access old news, but ensuring these journals of history aren’t...