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The Facts About Facebook Buying Friendfeed – What Twitter Users are Saying
Here are some of the facts that you need to know about the Facebook acquisition of Friendfeed. Yesterday, the internet was buzzing about the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook for a whopping $50 million in cash and stocks. The world’s largest social network just boosted their technology in real-time updates, conversations and search. Facebook said ...
Exclusive Interview: HP Labs Takes Innovative Approach to Corporate Research
HP’s roots are very technical and accurate. HP is known for quality products, research, and deep technical talent. Last week I had a chance to sit down with Prith Banerjee, the Senior Vice President Research and the Director of the new and improved HP Labs and Chandrakant Patel, Director of the Sustainability Lab in Palo ...
Cloud Collision – The Angle on Why Dr. Eric Schmidt Is History from Apple’s Board of Directors
What happens when a warm front and cold front collide? Usually, extremely violent weather, which could include, torrential rain, lightning and thunder, hail, and tornadoes. Steve Jobs is back at the helm. In addition to getting down and dirty on the product stuff we are now seeing him take care of some looming issues around ...
Emotions and Reality of Covering Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal
Lets take a look at the evolution of SearchEngineLand posts on Yahoo Microsoft deal. There’s been no shortage of coverage on the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal. I’ve been involved directly in search and covering it since 1997, and in my opinion Danny Sullivan is the best on search coverage. He’s been historically there in the ...
True Ventures – The True Story – LPs Love Their Model
Limited Partners around Silicon Valley and around the world are questioning where they put their money. Not with True Ventures. In fact many LPs are lining up to pump more money into True Ventures because they want working early stage venture funds that scale. Not talk but results. Yes you heard me – early stage ...
Google Offering AdSense Beta for Mobile Phones
Google is offering AdSense beta for mobile developers. Expect heavy startup activity over the next few years. Already major startups like Millennial Media have established viable revenue for developers via their offerings. Millennial Media has a unprecedented reach of over 70% of the mobile web market reach. Mobile startups like Millennial Media are seeing massive ...
Steve Jobs Health – Amen – Wishes For A Speedy Recovery
One of the benefits of living in Palo Alto where Steve and his family reside is that you get access to tons of inside information. Over the years I’ve gotten to know many of his friends from the early days of Apple, and Laurene Jobs was an investor in my last startup. I’ve known about ...
Iranian Students Shot – Iran Uprising – The World is Watching
Warning this is a video from Iran where students are protesting and get shot in front of the camera.
Ex Microsoft Exec Launching Real Time Social Search CrowdEye
Ex-Microsoft search executive Ken Moss along with his wife Becca are getting ready to launch a real time social search engine called CrowdEye. I am really happy to see that a husband and wife are teaming up on a venture. It has been conventional wisdom here in Silicon Valley that no one will invest in ...
An Industry Problem – Real Traffic? SearchMe.com "Real Traffic" is up 50% Month over Month
It is no secret that I am a big fan of Searchme, and that CEO Randy Adams has been a big supporter of SiliconAngle. So when I saw the Techcrunch article today on Searchme I clearly saw a a disconnect. I have to stand up for my friend Randy. Here is the flaw with the ...
