VCs poured significantly more money into deals in 2011, according to a recently released MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Venture capitalists invested $28.4 billion in 3,673 deals in 2011, an increase of 22 percent in dollars and a 4 percent rise in deals...
Next week a class-action civil lawsuit will be heard in San Jose to determine if Google, Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit conspired to eliminate competition for skilled labor. In anticipation of the hearing, TechCrunch has discovered evidence from the Department of Justice’s investigation in 2010 which was made public this evening for...
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 case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. The creator of the Piston Enterprise Operating System, or PentOS, was...
It’s hard to wrap my brain around the cold cynicism of Apple’s releasing a new tool to democratize the publishing of eBooks today, only to include in the tool’s terms and conditions a prohibition against selling those books anywhere but through Apple’s own bookstore. There’s just something so achingly awful about it. Portland, Oregon...
“iPads And Digital Textbooks Don’t Belong In Classrooms Yet”? What a headline. Alas, it doesn’t quite do the post justice; Matt actually raises a few valid points on the potential woes of digital learning, but they’re lost under a headline that (falsely) paint him as some sort of luddite. iPads absolutely have a place...
For the latest episode of her Valley Girl web show, Jesse Draper (daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper) managed to score an interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. For the first half of the interview, Sandberg talks about her work-life balance and her desire to see women in high-profile executive roles — it’s engaging...
Why Apple Won’t Disrupt the Textbook Industry Anytime Soon Starting today, Apple’s iBooks 2 became available in the iTunes App Store. Though Apple is known for disrupting industries, as they have done with the mp3 player, the phone, the tablet and music purchases, John Paul Titlow thinks the disruption of the textbook industry may...
Are people actually using Google+, the social network that Google rolled out last year? We know that signups are growing fast — in fact, Google often likes to say that Google+ is the fastest growing Web site in history. But all along, there have been hints that a lot of people are signing up...
Wikipedians Blacked Themselves Out Wikimedia Foundation has been tracking SOPA/PIPA as a threat since the hearings in November. After the first official markup of SOPA in December, Wikimedia published its first public stance against the bill, saying it would “hurt the free web and Wikipedia.” At that point, the staff and the worldwide community...
I’ll file this one under the “nothing would surprise me at this point” category. We’re getting multiple reports, including directly from Anonymous, that Megaupload is trying to get itself back online under another domain name, megavideo.bz. ✹BREAKING✹ – MEGAUPLOAD IS BACK, NEW #MEGAUPLOAD SITE – megavideo.bz | #megaupload #opmegaupload — Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) January 20,...