The entire stock market is taking another drubbing today, and Google is no exception.Its shares tried to rally in the morning, but are now trading below the $329 they closed at yesterday.Thats a key p...
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Cant afford a ticket to China to go visit the Forbidden City?Well, now all you need is your computer.IBM, which is a big believer in virtual worlds, and Chinas Palace Museum have created an exact repl...
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When Mahalo launched about 16 months ago, we called it a human-powered search engine and began thinking of it as a Google competitor. But its so-called guide pages for topics as diverse as the Boston ...
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Fitbit, producer of a sleek little device that clips onto your clothing and tracks your movement throughout the day and night, has raised $2 million from True Ventures, SoftTech VC and several angels ...
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In May 2007 I wrote Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks in a post about how, in my opinion, Silicon Valley was ripe for a downturn. This week, without any doubt, we got that dow...
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CEO_ALL_HANDS_10-7-08_FINAL - Get moreBusiness DocumentsWe were able to track down the presentation that Sequoia Capital gave to its portfolio company CEOs earlier this week (and so did VentureBeat). ...
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Yesterday Sequoia Capital and Ron Conway communicated with their portfolio companies to guide them through troubled times. Today Benchmark Capital joins the fray, with what a source says is an email f...
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With the economy slipping closer to rock bottom every day now, many of us are going to have to start cutting back on our day-to-day expenditures.Cue Voice2Insights The Expense Tracker, an online expen...
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Private equity fund Mithras Capital, which holds 1.9 million shares of Yahoo (about 0.14%), will propose to Microsoft that they buy Yahoo at $22 per share, Reuters reports. Microsoft would then unload...
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Since the launch of YouTubes API and the release of Seeqpod, weve seen many sites emerge that allow users to create playlists of their favorite songs that can be streamed free of charge.Unfortunately,...
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This weeks award for best marketing promotion related to the election goes to AirBedBreakfast, the peer-to-peer pad crashing site for travelers.(You list how much per night you want for travelers to s...
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The Future of Web Apps conference kicked off in London today and almost 2,000 startups and developers hit the East of London for the event.Highlights from the day included Kevin Rose from Digg, and a ...
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With Googles stock down $100 in the past two weeks, the company all of a sudden isnt so shy about pulling every advertising lever it can reach.So far this week, weve seen new click-to-buy buttons on Y...
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Amazon has introduced a tiered pricing scheme for S3, its cloud storage service, that will take advantage of increasing economies of scale and go into effect November 1st. Currently, American customer...
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The team behind Wakoopa, a social network that tracks and shares information about the desktop applications used by its members, noticed that Firefox and Safari were consistently ranked as the network...
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We now have a horse race for who will become the enterprise version of Twitter.Today marks the beta launch of QikCom, which is aimed at companies that want their employees to communicate with each oth...
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The invites are out and the rumors can be laid to rest. Will it be the new Brick aluminum-cased MacBooks/Pro? Or just plain old plastic ones with Nvidia chipsets? Will they be under $1,000? Be sure to...
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Here is a one-month stock chart comparing Apple (down 40 percent), Google (down 20 percent), Yahoo (ditto), and Microsoft (down about 10 percent).Microsoft is holding up best.If Yahoo keeps diving, wh...
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The current market gyrations have investors running everywhere seeking advice.What better time to launch a newswire culled from the latest posts of financial bloggers?Thats the idea behind Wikinvest W...
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JanRain, creator of some of the most popular OpenID software libraries and a forum-like communications tool called Pibb, has released a new SaaS offering for websites that want to become relying parti...
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