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Zillow Names Spencer Rascoff as New CEO: Another Hat to Wear.
Zillow’s brought in a new CEO, Sepncer Rascoff, to head up the real estate website. Rich Barton, Zillow co-founder, has been the company’s CEO since its launch in 2005, though he will remain actively involved as executive chairman of the board of directors. Lloyd Frink, the other half of Zillow’s founding members and President, will ...
Intel Tags $30M for US Startups, Including Joyent’s PaaS Cloud Offering
Intel is on a spending spree, dedicating $30 million to four U.S. investments. In an aim to “foster entrepreneurship,” Intel’s global investment organization has set its sights on the states. The four companies receiving funding include Adaptive Computing, Ciranova, Joyent and Nexant. Moab’s Adaptive Computing provides unified, automation intelligence technology, while Ciranova develops analog IC ...
Primal Pages Targets Publishers, Automates Community Engagement
Primal is expanding its automated search and content-building tools at DEMO Fall 2010, with an addition to Primal Pages. The new tool is for publishers, and offers a way for them to engage their audience without doing all the work around searching, aggregating, organizing and publishing content. Primal Pages for Publishers expounds on the Pages ...
Xeround Launches MySQL for the Cloud. It’s All About Scale.
Xeround has launched its private beta for MySQL for the Cloud, a service for managing your cloud ecosystem. Xeround provides a cloud environment that’s flexible and scalable, designed for running applications in SaaS, IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS. Geared towards service providers, ISVs and other cloud clients, the new Xeround aims to help them face the ...
Xerox-Incubated TrailMeme Launches, Reducing Real-Time Anxiety
Trailmeme is officially launching at DEMOfall 2010, which kicks off today. The Xerox-incubated network, which first emerged late last year, lets you create sharable paths of collected content. Incorporating the process behind your research can be just as important as the data itself, particularly when it comes to conveying and comprehending the intent of the ...
Select2gether Brings Live, Social Shopping to the Web
An e-commerce announcement from DEMO Fall 2010—Select2gether is launching live, interactive online shopping on its site. The fashion portal lets you share items and outfits you’re considering with friends and other users, gaining valuable feedback from its forums. Adding a real-time element, Select2gether hopes to take its shopping tool to the next level. The real-time ...
Intel’s Sandy Bridge Poses a Threat to Graphics Chip Makers
Intel unveiled some details around a combo processor-graphics chip at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today. Code-named Sandy Bridge, the chip combines a microprocessor and a graphics processor onto a single, silicon chip. Prototypes of Sandy Bridge are currently available, with plans to begin shipment to customers early next year. Intel’s going after ...
Grid Net Teams with Sprint, Using 4G Network for Energy Efficiency
Grid Net has teamed up with Sprint to utilize its 4G network for the use of its Smart Grid and Smart Home software platforms. This is a precedent for the industry, and takes advantage of Sprint’s promotion around the 4G network in the U.S. market. The deal brings new meter-monitoring options to ease green-tech implementation, ...
The FCC Considering Airwaves for WiFi. Goodbye Hotspots?
The Federal Communications Commission is looking to open more airways for WiFi use, minimizing the need to search for hotspots, and downsizing the number of dead zones you’ll experience on your Wifi-enabled phones and other devices. It’s a move that will shift the utilization of open networks for commercial use, making it a big change ...
Nokia’s Board Room Shuffle Continues as Two More Executives Step Down
More changes in Nokia’s executive line-up, with the departure of Anssi Vanjoki, a board member of the mobile manufacturer. Jorma Ollila, Nokia’s board chairman, may be stepping down as well. The news comes days after Nokia swapped out CEOs, bringing in Stephen Elop as its first non-Finnish chief. Vanjoki oversaw the N series line of ...
