In a Silicon Valley technology landscape where young hotshots tend to make their marks with innovative new startups, Farah Giga is different. She began her professional life as a solutions architect at Hitachi Data Systems while earning three degrees from Stanford, then made the move to HP. While there, she held numerous strategic managerial...
This guy holds 84 patents for Google. Image: Google+ See Also: THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Google On An Acquisition Spree, Getting Serious About Buying Hulu Meet The People Who Yahoo’s Board Has Been Abusing For Years Now OH #*$!, WE WASTED BILLIONS: The Most Expensive Tech Shutdowns Google obviously has an army of inventors tinkering...
Apple has released an EFI Firmware update 2.1 package for MacBook Airs that fixes a number of small issues and prepares them to use the new Thunderbolt Displays that have begun shipping to purchasers. This update includes fixes that enhance the stability of Lion Recovery from an Internet connection, and resolve issues with Apple...
We all know that small businesses should create their own Facebook Pages to help customers find them and engage with them online. Now there is a great set of guidelines from MenuPlatform that is specific to restaurant owners. It is well worth your time to take a closer look, even if you aren’t concerned...
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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. Last month we looked at why companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook want...
At the TechCrunch Hackathon on Saturday, the 108-year-old, All-American automaker, Ford, teamed up with the newly-American music service, Spotify, to showcase the growing opportunities for developers looking to take advantage of in-car gadgetry to integrate their apps and mobile services. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Ford looks to continue pushing forward with...
Image: Flickr/Thomas Hawk See Also: TECHCRUNCH: If AOL Fires Mike Arrington, We’re Screwed ARRINGTON DECLARES WAR ON ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Reid Hoffman Loves Facebook At $80 Billion Last week, the New York Times helped fan the flames of indigation against Mike Arrington’s CrunchFund in a news story about potential conflict of interest between bloggers and...
The location wars had a number of casualties. Some companies shut down, some sold off their remaining tech and talent. Others are still out there plugging away, but at this point, it seems clear that Foursquare won the all-important battle over the check-in. Even Facebook is slowly backing away from that particular space. Now...
Image: colorfulworld.cn See Also: Zynga Rumored To Be In Talks With The Angry Birds Guys Angry Birds Is About To Get A $1.2 Billion Valuation Check Out Pictures Of The Unauthorized Angry Birds Theme Park That Just Opened In China Angry Birds Theme Park ” /Angry Birds is so popular that its creator Rovio...
See Also: Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners Launch $20 Million Seed Fund Reid Hoffman Is Now Worth $1.8 Billion ARRINGTON: “It’s No Longer A Good Situation For Me To Stay” Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn and now a partner at Greylock Ventures, says that he would invest in Facebook at an $80 billion valuation,...