Kana Software today filed news of an amendment to its loan agreement with Bridge Bank to “require” the Menlo Park maker of customer service tools to borrow $1 million from Agility Capital, which Kana did as of July 30.
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The management at Altera, the San Jose maker of programmable chips, “committed” today to cutting 87 jobs from its 2,700 person workforce, or about 3 percent of its staff. The cuts, expected to be mostly completed this quarter, are a result of Altera’s efforts “to lower its cost structure.” It will be the second round of job cuts this year following the company’s decision Read the rest of this entry »
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski visited the San Jose Mercury News on Monday to discuss a wide range of policy issues facing the Federal Communications Commission. In this 10-minute clip, he explains the three categories being explored as part of a national broadband policy his agency must deliver in February 2010.
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto
On Saturday, the Merc ran an edited version of my interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s chief game designer. Below you’ll find the full text of my interview, which took place at the E3 video game conference in early June.
(Note, although this is the raw interview transcript, a translator was in the room with Miyamoto and me. The answers were actually the translator’s English translations of what Miyamoto said.
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Q: What was interesting to me … It really seems that Microsoft and Sony have started to zero in on what has distinguished the Wii and why the Wii has become such a popular game device, and that is the natural movements that you can do with the Wii remote. The question I have is what Nintendo thinks about this new interest from Sony and Microsoft in trying to duplicate and possibly improve upon what you’ve done with the Wii remote and Motion Plus?
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a piece by technology editor Damon Darlin under the headline, “Serendipity, Lost in the Digital Deluge.”
As the headline suggests, Darlin laments that the digital age is robbing us of those wonderful moments of serendipity. I couldn’t disagree more strongly. In fact, I’ve found myself discovering more through serendipity than ever, in large part thanks to the rise of social media.
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