Daily Archives: November 6, 2011

Eric Schmidt Is Right: Google’s Glory Days Are Numbered

November 6, 2011
Eric Schmidt Is Right: Google’s Glory Days Are Numbered

Editor’s note: Guest contributor Dan Kaplan leads Product Marketing for Twilio and writes occasionally about the extrapolation of the present into the future. Follow him @dankaplan. “History shows that popular technology is often supplanted by entirely new models.” That simple observation, presented in a letter from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to the Senate Subcommittee...

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Disrupt Beijing Take-Aways: How China Moves Beyond the Clones

November 6, 2011
Disrupt Beijing Take-Aways: How China Moves Beyond the Clones

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn’t ideas, funding or experience. It’s excuses. And you can understand why: Starting a company is scary even in Silicon Valley, a place where decades of ecosystem formation have provided entrepreneurs with soft-feathered nest of funding, mentoring and support. Outside the Valley it’s downright terrifying. It’s little...

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Chinese govt targets social media with plan to curb “harmful information” online

November 6, 2011

China’s leading Internet companies are reported to have reached “a common agreement” to give the government greater control of information on the Internet, and social media in particular. The Chinese government, according to Reuters, has received support from ten of the country’s top technology firms — including e-commerce firm Alibaba, search giant Baidu, and...

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Disney and YouTube set to ink online content partnership

November 6, 2011

Disney and YouTube are set to ink a deal partnership today which will see the duo invest a combined $10-15 million on creating content for the Google-owned video website, according to the New York Times. The initial series will be produced by Disney and available exclusively via the Disney website and through YouTube. Aside...

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Vimeo has 150,000 paying subscribers

November 6, 2011
Vimeo has 150,000 paying subscribers

Vimeo, an online video service that is part of New York-based IAC, has about 150,000 paying members, according to IAC chairman Barry Diller. He revealed the numbers during a conference call with Wall Street analysts following company’s earnings for the quarter ending September 30, 2011. The one area that I think, one unit of...

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Mobile tipped to grow 60% in Africa passing 1 billion subscriptions by 2016

November 6, 2011

Africa is being tipped to pass one billion mobile subscriptions to become the world’s second largest mobile market by 2016 according to new research from analyst firm Informa. Mobile activations in the continent, which currently stand at 616 million, are estimated to grow by more than 60 percent over the next five years making...

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A surprising early investor in Nanosolar: Reid Hoffman

November 6, 2011
A surprising early investor in Nanosolar: Reid Hoffman

When PayPal went public in 2002, then executive vice president Reid Hoffman, spent some of his winnings on investing in an early round of Silicon Valley’s first solar thin film startup Nanosolar, according to an article in the New York Times. Hoffman, of course, later on founded LinkedIn, which went public in May of...

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Firefox 8 Launches In Two Days, But Here’s How To Get It NOW

November 6, 2011
Firefox 8 Launches In Two Days, But Here’s How To Get It NOW

See Also: I Spent A Week With Android, And Hated It Here’s An Excuse To Lick Your iPhone (Plus 8 Other Weird Apps) These 6 Apps Offer iCloud Features, Plus A Lot More Firefox 8 won’t hit the presses until November 8, but as always, Mozilla has uploaded the final version to the web...

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Video Sharing Is Coming Soon To Instagram

November 6, 2011
Video Sharing Is Coming Soon To Instagram

See Also: 9 Million Users In 11 Months For Instagram HANDS ON: HTC’s New Multimedia Monster Phone With Built-In Beats By Dre Tons Of iPhone 4S Users Can’t Hear Calls Through The Phone’s Earpiece At TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom said that video sharing is the next step for the popular...

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Don’t Forget: We’ll Be Live At The Nook Tablet Event Tomorrow! (BKS)

November 6, 2011
Don’t Forget: We’ll Be Live At The Nook Tablet Event Tomorrow! (BKS)

Image: Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also: Here Are All The Details On The Next Nook Tablet Apple Once Shipped A Product In Unmarked Tomato Boxes To Prevent Spying The Verge Can Throw A Hell Of A Party Barnes Noble is holding a big media event to unveil the successor to the Nook Color,...

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