What separates the most successful venture capitalists from the rest of the pack? According to the Stanford University researchers behind the new Startup Genome Project, the biggest difference between the simply good and the absolutely fabulous lies in how each group assesses startups. After interviewing venture capitalists of all stripes over the last five months, the Genome team — Max...
Zynga continues to expand way beyond the farms that made it famous. On Tuesday, the San Francisco-based social gaming company announced the launch of its first strategy combat game, Empires Allies. Empires Allies is the first title to come out of the Los Angeles development studio Zynga opened last year. The game will launch...
A survey released today aims to show cable providers how they can keep losing their influential viewers from cutting the cable. Ideas and Solutions, a Los Angeles-based consultant group for media and technology companies, says that 60% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 were either leaning towards or seriously considering giving...
Sorry, Larry. No self-driving cars. Robert Scoble Google 2015: what will it look like? Will Sony Bloggie 3D bring mainstream to 3D? A visit to Silicon Valley’s hot new hardware company: hyper energy-efficient microserver maker SeaMicro I worked at post-DOJ-spanked Microsoft. I saw firsthand how wimpy Bill Gates got (I had a lunch with...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Heroku, the platform-as-a-service provider that Salesforce.com acquired last year, has added Node.js to...
Web based mapping platform GeoCommons launched its 2.0 version today with a long list of free, enterprise and API features that bring the service up to date on contemporary web technologies. GeoCommons is a community site run by GeoIQ, a private company that sells software and support to enterprise customers. Data and maps posted...
There’s a button war going on around us. Google, Digg, Yahoo, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn — they’ve all been angling to get their buttons in prime real estate on big websites. But two players loom larger in the space than anyone else: Facebook and Twitter. And Twitter just escalated the war a bit today. Twitter has...
In a shocking report, a study executed by the Bank of America (BofA) indicates that some 96% of Americans under the age of 50 use Facebook. A total of 418 participants were included in the polling. Such a limited sample size will surely bolster calls that the survey was statistically unreliable, but the persons...
VMware has acquired social communications platform Socialcast. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Socialcast, which raised nearly $10 million in funding, combines a corporate activity stream that ties into CRM and ERP systems with social bookmarking, Outlook and SharePoint integrations, mobile (iPhone and Blackberry) and desktop (Air) apps, and analytics. Co-workers can share...
We’ve wanted this for ages, and our request (no, seriously, Zee asked for this yesterday) has been answered. According to the Twitter blog, the site has finally added a Follow button: For publishers and brands, adding the Follow Button to your website and using Twitter to stay connected with your audience is a powerful...