Daily Archives: August 17, 2011

10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (BBY, HPQ, GOOG, MMI, AAPL, DELL, YOKU, AOL)

August 17, 2011
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (BBY, HPQ, GOOG, MMI, AAPL, DELL, YOKU, AOL)

Image: Apple via AppleInsider Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: Best Buy has 200,000 unsold Touchpads that it wants HP to take back. The Touchpad is officially a dud. Boom! SP slaps a SELL on Google because of its Motorola acquisition… …which will be a huge disaster, according to Business Insider’s Henry...

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Huge Chinese Video Site Tudou Prices IPO (TUDO, YOKU)

August 17, 2011
Huge Chinese Video Site Tudou Prices IPO (TUDO, YOKU)

Tudou, the second-biggest “YouTube of China”, has priced its IPO and will start trading this morning on the Nasdaq, Bloomberg reports. Citing sources, the report says Tudou sold 6 million depositary receipts at $29 a piece, in the middle of the range, raising $174 million. Tudou priced its IPO at a discount relative to...

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Before Dumping On Google-Motorola, Remember: Google Is The Best Tech Company At Acquisitions (GOOG, MMI)

August 17, 2011
Before Dumping On Google-Motorola, Remember: Google Is The Best Tech Company At Acquisitions (GOOG, MMI)

Image: Twettey.com Google’s acquisition of Motorola certainly looks like a disaster. But there’s one thing to keep in mind: Google is probably the best tech company at acquisitions, as our friend Dan Frommer points out at SplatF. Google is pretty good at talent acquisitions: for all the talk about Facebook poaching from Google, tons...

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Github-Integrated fluxflex Aims At Making Cloud Hosting Easier And Cheaper

August 17, 2011
Github-Integrated fluxflex Aims At Making Cloud Hosting Easier And Cheaper

There are quite a few cloud hosting Platform-as-a-Service providers out there to do the heavy lifting for web application developers who expect a certain amount of traffic for their sites. A new provider called fluxflex aims at differentiating itself from Heroku, Google App Engine, DotCloud and others by being offering an extra-easy to use...

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Photovine Grows Ready For Public Use; Easily Google’s Most Ambitious Photo-Sharing App Yet

August 17, 2011
Photovine Grows Ready For Public Use; Easily Google’s Most Ambitious Photo-Sharing App Yet

Google’s Slide team has been busy. In the past few months, they’ve unleashed a range of social apps meant to fulfill different needs. But the strange thing is that Google hasn’t done a thing to promote any of them. That has been on purpose. Google is giving the Slide team, which operates on its...

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SolarWinds Has New Synthetic User Testing Tool

August 17, 2011
SolarWinds Has New Synthetic User Testing Tool

SolarWinds has a new synthetic user test tool being announced today, called its Synthetic End User Monitor. They are branching out to generalized IT management tools and the product can be used to test a variety of Web application situations, including cloud computing, ecommerce and Web access to databases. Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/gS8lsA7MhYA/solarwinds-has-synthetic-user.php

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10 ways to wind down your green startup

August 17, 2011
10 ways to wind down your green startup

Some are expecting the cleantech graveyard of startups to start filling up, particularly in the second quarter of 2012. But how companies wind down, sell off their assets, or morph into new much slimmer versions of their former selves, is a personal choice for the companies and investors. Here’s 10 ways you can do...

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Tech Media Obsessed With Deals & Rumors

August 17, 2011
Tech Media Obsessed With Deals & Rumors

Neal Gabler lists several characteristics of his post-idea world: “There is the eclipse of the public intellectual in the general media by the pundit who substitutes outrageousness for thoughtfulness, and the concomitant decline of the essay in general-interest magazines. And there is the rise of an increasingly visual culture, especially among the young —...

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