Venture capital investments continued to grow at a rapid clip in the second quarter of 2011, with VC firms investing $7.5 billion across 966 deals, according to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA.) But some industry experts are saying that the current level of VC activity...
Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on Twitter @semilshah. I find myself conflicted about secondary markets. My cautionary side wonders how these private stock sales can potentially distort incentives within companies...
Today Apple released its third quarter earnings. Perusing the revenue figures, I was struck by just how much the iPhone and iPad have overtaken computers and music as Apple’s main form of revenue. The iPhone and iPad combined now make up 68% of Apple’s entire revenue, compared to just 18% for what were (until...
Over the last few months, we’ve had a number of questions from people wondering how to check which tab or extension is causing Chrome to slow down. If you’re a Chrome user you’ve undoubtedly had moments were you’ve tried to figure this out yourself. For the most part, Chrome’s pretty good: in this particular...
Roku just announced its fourth generation of media streamers and they’re unsurprisingly the best yet. They sport more features, an even smaller physical footprint, and the same Apple TV-killing price points as before. These new models, the Roku 2 HD, Roku 2 XD, and the Roku 2 XS, have even more media streaming capabilities...
Too Much Success Cisco’s current predicament is a classic story of being the victim of one’s own success. During the peak of the dot-com bubble, Cisco passed Microsoft to become the most valuable company in the world. After all, the company was selling the gear that made the Internet work. It was also seeing...
sorry, but as we are discussing in TNW’s post at G+, this doesn’t even look as legit… Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/ZxbokYBLmeM/
When Apple released its third-quarter 2011 earnings results today the numbers were, as is becoming almost customary for the Cupertino crew lately, a huge blow-out. Success was spread over many parts of the business, particularly the company’s flagship products, the iPhone and the Mac. Both are growing and show that Apple is on a...
Awesome move from Google, doing something they totally didn’t need to do, but in the spirit of great PR to help users and increase loyalty Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/WPAViUbNHwI/
When U.S. District Judge Denny Chin threw out the proposed Google Books Settlement earlier this year, he sent authors, publishers, and Google back to the negotiating table in order to hammer out an agreement that would allow Google’s digitization efforts to move forward. But those negotiations are taking too long it seems, and at...