Ask Box.net CEO Aaron Levie about his company’s cloud storage business, and you’ll hear a long, excited answer that probably won’t include the word “storage” at all. He’ll talk about sharing, collaboration and universal access — anything but the core storage infrastructure that makes Box’s service possible. He’s entirely right to do so, because...
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is the world’s principal standards maintenance organization for electronic communications, and has been so since 1865. Today, it is an agency of the United Nations. Not all that long ago, when the act of going online was largely a function of the telephone, it was ITU (and its predecessor,...
Today Facebook launched a brand new page to explain just how its advertising works. The social network makes most of its money through ads. This comes right after yesterday’s announcement that sponsored stories will start popping up in the Facebook news feed. Sponsored stories are already appearing in the news ticker. Article source: RRW...
Bloomberg West’s Emily Chang interviewed Paul Graham of Y Combinator on Bloomberg TV about the state of startups. He said one thing hasn’t changed: people think their obsession will be the same as everybody else’s: “There’s one trend that’s true for startups not just now, even like 20 years ago. Some nutty monomaniac has...
Microsoft didn’t exactly withdraw from the CES keynote in 2012 — the Consumer Electronics Association kicked it out, according to a report from Barb Darrow at GigaOM. The report quotes an unnamed insider saying “Microsoft didn’t pull out of the keynote — they were kicked out. Big difference.” The New York Times also talked...
Image: Wikipedia Janet Robinson See Also: New York Times CEO Janet Robinson Out NYT NEWSROOM CHATTER: Andrew Ross Sorkin In Running To Become CEO GOSSIP: Here’s Who We’re Hearing Is Next In Line To Be The New York Times CEO Exiting New York Times CEO Janet Robinson’s $4.5 million consulting fee for next year...
Image: AP See Also: BRUTAL: Mark Pincus Is No Longer A Billionaire THE TRUTH ABOUT ZYNGA: The Only Reason The IPO ‘Flopped’ Is Because Idiot Investors Paid Too Much Why LinkedIn’s IPO Was A Big Success When Almost Everyone Else Was A Bust It was Gardens of Time, by Playdom. That’s according to a...
If you were one of the lucky few that managed to snag a TouchPad during HP’s (maybe) final fire sale of TouchPad inventory two weeks ago, you might be receiving a little present soon via PayPal. It seems that some people were charged quite a bit extra for shipping. It seems a bit fussy...
It was a good year to be a startup. VC’s were scrambling to invest in a few big ideas, and money was (relatively) easy to come by. Here’s a look at the startups that had investors scrambling to write them big fat checks. Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/VQmGlpe4aFc/10-hot-startups-that-created-funding-frenzies-this-year-2011-12
So, just who nixed future Microsoft keynotes at the big Consumer Electronics Show? It’s a sticky question. Microsoft said Wednesday that Steve Ballmer’s keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show next month will be the company’s last center stage event at the show, and that it will focus more on company-owned venues going forward. Ballmer, who...