Want Some Facebook Stock At A $3 Billion Valuation? We Know Who To Call.
Facebook may have talked a few investors, including Microsoft, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing and Germany's Samwer brothers, into investing in the company's preferred stockat a $15 billion valuatio...
Venture Investors Wrap Up an Unusually Bleak Quarter
SAN FRANCISCO — So far this has been a challenging year for companies hoping to go public. But it has been even rougher on venture capitalists who were hoping to get a big payday from such an offerin...
With Wireless Network, City Agencies Have More Eyes in More Places
Rigor mortis had set in by the time Joseph Mauro, a supervisor with the Department of Sanitation, drove by a dead opossum on Park Drive East in the Kew Gardens Hills section of Queens. — Checking a ...
NBC's Totalitarian Olympics: More on Restrictions; Online Video Only After TV Broadcast
And here I was rejoicing that finally we could do away with the lame soft-focus athlete stories and parochial commentary from NBCU with this Olympics: Yes, the company will have 2,200 hours of live co...
Yahoo Loses One Of Their Top Deal Guys - One More Exec Gone
As anyone could guess, the Yahoo executive exodus continues. Kent Goldman, Yahoo's Director of Corporate Development and one of their top deal guys, is rumored to be leaving the company. Goldman joi...
Open Letter To Shel Israel - It's Over
When I first started my career, you made it a point to bury me online, and more importantly back channel as well. This is a fact. You and your crew went out of your way to take food off my plate. I...
Motorola Blaze for Verizon: the touch screen war hasn't stopped yet
Ooooh! It's purdy and shiny. Yes, yes, y'all — another Motorola scoop. This time, we're switching gears from non-autofocusness to touch screens. There's also very little doubt the Motorola Blaze i...
The Google Way of Science
There's a dawning sense that extremely large databases of information, starting in the petabyte level, could change how we learn things. The traditional way of doing science entails constructing a hy...