We’ve spent the last several weeks speaking with a bunch of digital media executives in an attempt to figure out how conversations on social media affects their ratings numbers, and for the most part what we’ve heard is, “It’s complicated.” But new data released by Nielsen Thursday seeks to draw a correlation between online...
I was fortunate to watch this interview live yesterday on Bloomberg TV and I was utterly glued. Here was a man, Schmidt, a friend of Steve Jobs but ultimately a fierce competitor who works alongside two great entrepreneurs in their own right, Google founders Larry and Sergey yet he described Jobs, in no uncertain...
The last company Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker started together was Napster, over a decade ago. Now they are teaming up again to create a new startup called Airtime (previously codenamed Supyo). The two have completed an $8.3 million series A financing from Founders Fund, Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Yuri Milner, Ron Conway, Marissa...
The ashes of 9/11 were still falling across America three months later, in December 2001. Everyone was depressed and business was lousy in most corners of the world. Even in Silicon Valley, which had fueled the national optimism for so many years, technology companies—and worse, the entrepreneurs who powered them—were on the ropes. I...
AS a journalist working in the online world, I’m pretty much hooked on Twitter and I’m sure that many of you are as well. That’s why I’m always on the lookout for new and unique Twitter clients that help me access it in cool ways. TweetSpeaker does just that by allowing...
Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. Matt LeMay, platform manager at Bit.ly, says that social data can tell us who we are...
At today’s session, we opened with a memorial service for Steve and then went on to explain how we are doing so. Through the past six years of intense research and thinking, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. This is...
If you had any lingering doubts that Samsung’s upcoming Unpacked event would serve as a launching pad for Ice Cream Sandwich (the next major build of Android), let them be cast away: Google has just gone and confirmed it themselves. Early this morning, the Android Developer Youtube channel (which serves as the official video...
The Next Web Sessions is back, talking about the things that maybe we don’t want to, while of course covering the things that we do. We’ll talk about what happened at this week’s Apple event for the iPhone 4S, and then we’ll talk in depth about Apple’s present, and its future. Subscribe to The...
Memory chip giants Samsung and Micron have joined forces to create a new type of memory chip designed for high performance computing in a world with much faster broadband networks. The two firms said Thursday that they have formed the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium to build a chip that can send information from memory...