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War Meetup – Back From the Bagdad – Stories to Share from Founder of Meetup Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman the Co-founder and Chief Organizer of Meetup.com just got back from Iraq. SiliconAngle.com supports the efforts of this group to bring new technology to facilitate social change – connecting and collaboration is the new opportunity. The only war going on today is a "War of Ideas". Here are the words and a video ...
Babson College Trumps Stanford, Harvard, and Wharton – Babo Ranks #1 Again in Entrepreneurship MBA – 16 Consecutive Years
Babson College’s MBA program has been ranked #1 in entrepreneurship by U.S. News & World Report for the 16th consecutive year. Besides Babson, the other entrepreneurship programs in the top five are Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan). U.S. News & World Report also released its Top ...
MySpace Has New CEO Owen Van Natta
It’s official and confirmed by Boomtown’s Kara Swisher that MySpace’s new CEO will be Owen Van Natta. My Angle: I think that this is a great move for MySpace to bring in someone who is "chomping at the bit" to be a big time CEO. Recently he was passed over (not appreciated) at Facebook – ...
Entrepreneurship Liquidity Market – The Private Privates – We need Liquidity But First Standardization
I love market forces. The NY Times has a great story about an emerging trend – a private liquidity market – a private Private market. I wrote about this trend last year in August 2008 when it was apparent that Silicon Valley was already doing it (well almost). In August I wrote: What we have ...
CafePress Changing Their Approach – Going Retailing Featuring Premium Shelf Space
CafePress today announced changes to their marketplace to respond to the needs of their growing customer base. This announcement is a reflection of the growing trend in community e-tailing. I really like this company and hope to get a briefing from the company. Here is the news on their big change. Over the months to ...
SearchMe Announces Integrated Search Results Visually – Pages, Video, Music All-in-One Result
SearchMe.com, a visual search engine that has only been available for less than one year, announces a new feature for their new visual search service . They now can integrate all the content types into one result via their unique visual display capability. Very nice feature. Even more compelling on the iPhone. Searchme has been ...
Innovate or Die at Ad:Tech SF 2009 – #adtechsf
Many have been talking about how to innovate in the online advertising market. Specifically, online video ads, and the need for measurement on brand impact and other aspects of sponsorship typically considered unmeasurable. It’s a topic that resonates right now with what I’m hearing from others who are building major content brands themselves. I’m here ...
SUN’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz Full Memo to Employees Regarding Oracle Buyout
SUN is communicating to their employees with a message of hope. SiliconAngle had the angle on the Sun deal for months and covered the news here this week. I personally have a big soft spot in my heart for SUN because when I was a young computer science student at Northeastern University in 1985 we ...
Broadband Stimulus Needs Broadband “Digital” Education
Ran into this video again today after speaking to folks in Washington DC regarding our Broadband Stimulus packages. In addition to broadband everywhere, I have been actively lobbying for funding on how to use broadband access. We need to see a priority on how to use the new digital tools. Take the time to watch ...
Breaking News eBay Taking Skype Out Public in 2010
This just in to SiliconAngle – eBay plans to take Skype public in 2010, following the news that StumbleUpon was also spun out of the eBay fold. Skype is a winner and we here at The SiliconAngle have been very bullish on them. Their iPhone app speaks volumes. This again is total validation for the ...
