Apple and Taiwanese firm Proview look set to settle their ongoing legal case around the ownership of the ‘iPad’ trademark, after a Chinese court revealed that it is pushing the two companies to reach an agreement. “On the one hand, we are trying to process this case, and on the other, we are working...
Daily Archives: April 22, 2012
Adobe Officially Unveils CS6 And Its $49/Month All-Inclusive Creative Cloud Subscription Service
Today is a big day for Adobe. Not only is the company officially unveiling the next versions of virtually all of the applications in its Creative Suite, but Adobe is also launching its Creative Cloud online offerings. This marks a major change in how Adobe is selling and marketing its flagship product: while the...
Google Makes Its Big Video Push With AdWords For Video
A couple of weeks ago, early participants in the new AdWords for Video program gathered at the YouTube offices. The ostensible justification for the meeting was a fancy photo shoot, but YouTube executives also gave a little pep talk, laying out their vision to make video advertising available to small businesses. They even let...
[Infographic] A Brief History of Digital Video
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Thomas Edison’s Black Maria was the first film production studio in the world. Residing in West Orange, New Jersey, it was lit with a retractable roof and filmed magic shows and vaudeville performances starting in 1983. About 119 years later, we have video cameras in our pockets in the form of smartphones and tablets,...
Hacking @UChicago: Why sponsoring student hackathons is a great way to invest in the future of technology
I spent a fair chunk of my day today at a hackathon, and not one that I participated in. I was a mere judge, and along with a few other Chicago-based technologists judged a staggering 14 projects built by students from in and around Chicago. The event, hosted at Booth Business School (part of...
Ben Horowitz on why Andreessen Horowitz backed Picplz and still stands to make $78M from Instagram
The New York Times caused controversy this weekend after it published a story claiming that top VC firm Andreessen Horowitz “fumbled” its investment in Instagram, losing million of dollars by backing photo-sharing rival Picplz over the company that Facebook will acquire for $1 billion. As we already pointed out, the NYT article overlooks (or lightly...
What you need to know about data centers & biogas
At first glance biogas — gas that is produced by the breakdown of organic matter — and data centers that are powering the world’s always-on websites don’t seem like a clear fit. The first is an industry in the U.S. in its infancy, and the second is undergoing a rapidly exploding construction boom. But...
As unstructured data heats up, will you need a license to webcrawl?
Cheap computing and the ability to store a lot of data at a low cost have made the concept of big data a big business. But amid the frenzy to gather that data, especially unstructured information scraped from or accessed via crawling web sites, companies might be pushing the boundaries of polite (or ethical)...
Winners of the first Startup Weekend event in the north of England announced
If you are in the North of England, you might already know that this weekend saw 70 entrepreneurs gathering at Newcastle University Business School for a Startup Weekend event. This evening the winners were announced after 54 hours of toil, pivots and pizza. There have been over 400 Startup Weekend events to date with 12 other...
Sins Of The Cloud
Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip. In the beginning there was the cloud. And it was good. But over time it can also be surprisingly expensive. If you’ve ever said “Oh my god,”...