AOL guns for Yahoo Finance
AOL’s Money and Finance group this week announced an overhaul of its popular destination site for individual investors. At stake: A battle for the hearts, minds and wallets of tens of millions of individual investors who use the Web each day to track their stock… Continue Reading
Surprise: Mary Meeker offers skepticism about U.S. tech industry
Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker offered a somewhat skeptical forecast for the U.S. tech industry. The once respected analyst lost much of her credibility in recent years, after hyping Internet stocks during the last boom and making careless errors on Facebook advertising predictions (notably, she revised… Continue Reading
Web 2.0 Summit: MadeIt, Nokia’s new phone, and Zennstrom’s disappearance
Web 2.0 Summit, co-hosted by O’Reilly Media and CMP, kicks off this Wednesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. A who’s who list of Web 2.0 digerati will converge for three days of deal making, partying and more deal making.
If you didn’t have the budget to… Continue Reading
MeshWalk, the latest unconference, lets you walk & talk
Yesterday, one hundred aspiring entrepreneurs were joined by a few VCs and angel investors for MeshWalk, a walking conference organized by MeshForum and sponsored by Mohr Davidow Ventures. VentureBeat’s Mark Coker in the following personal account, says the innovative “unconference” has a few kinks to… Continue Reading
Startup Epicenter — rumbles with the latest start-ups
Eighty entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists gathered yesterday at Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West’s headquarters for Startup Epicenter to hear funding pitches from ten early stage startups.
Despite the comic regularity of business plans predicting explosive revenue growth and profitability one to two… Continue Reading
Publishers move to split ebooks into pieces
Ever wondered what happened to the promise of the ebook?
In the ‘90s, when the Internet took hold in a big way, publishers half-heartedly looked to ebooks — electronic versions books as a way to boost sales.
The efforts generally failed, due to poor reading devices, customer… Continue Reading
Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem
Sedo, the world’s largest domain name auctioneer, sold a popular URL, Boobtube.com, for $41,688 last week, but then turned around and canceled the sale because the seller didn’t really own it.
This auction had lasted more than two weeks, and was frenetic.
The cancellation raises prickly questions… Continue Reading
Cleantech startups of note: D. Light Design, ReadySolar, Redwood Renewables
Three green technology companies emerged as among the more interesting companies at the Launch Silicon Valley pitch-fest yesterday.
Several hundred entrepreneurs and investors gathered in Mountain View, Calif. for the annual ritual, where 30 hand-picked companies gave a ten-minute pitch.
D. Light Design Wants to Eliminate… Continue Reading
Khosla’s tips on how save the environment
Cleantech investing poster boy, Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures today presented potential solutions to the man-made global warming he said is pushing the earth’s environment toward cataclysmic disaster.
Speaking at the Cleantech 2007 conference in Santa Clara, Khosla targeted the two primary carbon-emitting culprits — oil… Continue Reading
eBay’s Meg Whitman – “eBay is the last business job I will ever have”
Meg Whitman says she’ll never leave eBay for another company. “eBay is the last business job I will ever have, for sure,” said Whitman, answering an audience question this morning at her keynote presentation on the final day of the TiECON 2007 entrepreneurs conference here… Continue Reading
Elementeo’s 13-year-old CEO, highlight of TiECON
TiECON 2007, the big technology conference in Santa Clara, Calif., kicked off yesterday.
The buzz on the expo floor was about Silicon Valley gaming startup Elementeo and its precocious 13-year old founder and chief executive, Anshul Samar. “We inject fun into education,” the fast talking… Continue Reading
Signet Solar Enters Crowded Solar Field
A team of semiconductor industry veterans today announced the launch of Signet Solar, a solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer that hopes to disrupt the fast growing solar industry by significantly reducing the manufacturing costs of solar panels.
The company will target large projects such as… Continue Reading
Live Ink offers better way to read text online
Did you know our primitive brains weren’t wired very well to read this paragraph?
Scientific research conducted by Walker Reading Technologies, a small Minnesota startup that has been studying our ability to read for the last ten years, has concluded that the natural field of… Continue Reading
Inpowr creates a social network for ME
There’s a social networking site for nearly every person, animal, and interest – but what about a social network for the person who matters most? That’s right, a social network for YOU, the proud recipient of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
Look in the mirror…. Continue Reading
Ignite lights up Web 2.0 Expo
O’Reilly Media’s Web 2.0 Expo kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, with 10,000 attendees from 59 countries. VentureBeat’s Mark Coker took notes from the day.
The highlight was the evening’s Ignite event: Imagine packing a large conference room with about 600 geeks, giving ‘em all the… Continue Reading
Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School
Here’s a summary of the more compelling tips given by several tech industry luminaries — including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Greg McAdoo — at the Y Combinator Startup School event at Stanford this weekend.
The event attracted more… Continue Reading
Zecco gains traction with commission-free trading
Zecco, a company wanting to disrupt America’s online brokerage industry by offering free stock trading to the masses, is making progress.
The company says it is opening a thousand accounts a week, and its growth is accelerating. Yet the company is also facing growing pains, and… Continue Reading