Despite becoming embroiled in the UK’s increasingly controversial row about injunctions which gag the press but not Twitter users, Twitter itself is going ahead with plans to open a new office in London. Its first UK-based employee is Tony Wang who relocates from San Francisco this weekend, according to his own tweets. Read the...
Between 1993 and 2000, Cisco became a role model of tech MA, making 75 acquisitions over those seven years. At its peak, those acquisitions collectively represented 50 percent of Cisco’s revenue. We learned a lot along the way. In my previous post, I explained two of my six key principles of a successful acquisition...
We’ve spent much of the last week exploring Berlin, attending the Next11 conference and meeting a few local startups. The biggest problem from a video entertainment standpoint? We both agree that Berlin feels like a better startup town than London. “Feels like” is an important disclaimer here. Berlin certainly doesn’t have the track record,...
Around 500 hackers participated from late last night to early today morning at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York, building in teams and waking up or popping enough Redbull this am in order to show off their hacks to notables including VC Jeff Clavier and Canv.as founder Christopher Poole, VP of Product Bradley...
Here’s a fun video to watch from Channel 9, via Daring Fireball. Steve Jobs is presenting on Web Objects at the 1996 Microsoft Professional Developers conference at 7 PM at night. Unlike the Jobs keynotes we’ve grown accustomed to seeing the last 10 years, he doesn’t have the same swagger on stage. He actually...
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Renowned Kenyan crowdsourcing site, Ushahidi is set to launch a new site that will help monitor government effectiveness. The new site is called Huduma. Huduma (which is a Swahili word for “service”) enables people to submit reports on the performance of services in their district by text, e-mail or Twitter. The reports are then...
Apple has a lot of cash. As of Q2, 2011 Apple has over $77 billion dollars worth of cash reserves. This is uncharacteristically high for a company of Apple’s size and it has led to an enormous amount of speculation as to its intended purpose among tech pundits and fans alike. The only thing...
Jerry Lee Lewis would have been proud. Even as the clock ticked past midnight at Pier 94 in Hell’s Kitchen, there was a whole lotta hackin’ goin’ on. Beginning around noon on Saturday, hackers filed into the spacious room at the site of Disrupt NYC to begin networking and scheming in earnest. As the...
Speak to any investor, mentor or seasoned analyst, startups are integral in developing the technology industry and driving innovation. Having recovered from the dot-com crash, investment firms are consistently pumping money in technology startups in the hope that they will become the next Google or Facebook. Seed accelerators all over the world are taking...