Monthly Archives for May 2006
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Unshackling your digital media player with ZingVC Ravi Chiruvolu: Will start hedge fund called Top Shelf
Redfin: One more nail in the coffin of the wealthy Bay Area real estate agent
TurnHere: Neighborhoods through the lenses of local filmmakers
Sequoia leads $30M investment in Chinese IT outsourcing firm, Worksoft
OurStory, SnapJot and Tabblo all want to tell your life-story
Snooping in Silicon Valley, Microsoft's assault, Google Checkout & more
Jangl's new angle on phone calling
Finally, a "visual design lead'' for Google
Gould says VC firms have gotten too big; leaves to do her own thing
Friday round-up of Silicon Valley action
Why the girls of Wichita, Kansas are leaving MySpace for Bebo, among others
Is Sequoia jumping on the green-tech bandwaggon?
Record valuation jump for valley start-ups, but...
Vonage gets hammered; loses $325 million on first day
Green technology energy investments hit record
Catching up with SwapTree, Limbo and Trulia
Navio: The DRM start-up in Apple's backyard
Hello "On Demand" hype machine
Presto: a foolproof photo service for the elderly
Is Silicon Valley executive pay out of control?
Seibel's "On Demand" biz guy leaves; launches open source LucidEra
Sequoia raises $861 late-stage fund; shrugs off legacy of Webvan et al.
Wavion's WiFi access points could help Google in SF
Intacct raises $7 million; promises guerrilla campaign against SAP/Oracle
Silicon Valley's latest: Google, Maxthon, Matrix & More
Friendster raises $3.1 million; Good man Siegelman stepped in
John Doerr has gone half-Green; gets word to President
Oracle asks Stanford's Joe Grundfest to resign from board (there's history)
Venture firms are growing; where are the boutique VCs?
The CIA's other man in Silicon Valley: Will Johnson
Latest Silicon Valley start-ups: 3jam, JWire, Imperva & more
Ouch. Blue Security shuts down after spammer attacks
Khosla enters virtualization space; invests in Moka5
M2Z: The latest Hail Mary on universal broadband access
AOL's Uncut Video; a YouTube copycat, but history suggests it's a long-shot
Threshold's shocker & the public's lesson
StumbleUpon launches, raises cash from well-known angels
The 53,651 Meme -- and the Silicon Valley geek echo chamber
Skype's splash, Bottlenotes, Blogging from Word & 165 University's Karma
Snap, a search engine promising pay-per-action
With record company, SF's Doppelganger creates virtual hang-out for teens
Friday fish wrap
NSA violating privacy? Some folks in Silicon Valley think so
SAP to launch $100M VC fund for NetWeaver
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer visits valley; discusses friendship with Yahoo
Google's Press Day: Google Coop, Google Trends....& Google stock drop
Alsop blogs, despite dismissing it last year
Open Thread: What's the hottest private Silicon Valley company right now?
Latest VC bloggers: Tali Aben (chick number 4) & Tom Shields
What's up at eHarmony? Appoints third CEO this year.
Wrap: Kashya wins, Servgate loses, Google's problem, Vonage's panic
Google looks Olive up and down, but then rejects it
Latest VC bloggers: Kara Nortman, Stu Phillips & Josh Kopelman
Silicon Valley's boys will play: The electric X1 car & the Jet-Bug
Computer recycling: Kudos to HP; Apple's tough stance
Silicon Valley today: surveillance, spying, turncoats, radars, defections...
Silicon Graphics, a valley legend, files for bankruptcy
Box.net ready to ramp it up, seeks funding
Friday roundup: Radar, Google Health, Blogcheese, SkyBlue, and Microsoft's gloves
CIA in Silicon Valley invests in -- shocker -- a tiny photo lens
Silicon Valley RFID company, Savi, sells for $400 million
Kozoru founder zinged by Kansas City paper
Google's Internet access investment, Current, raises $130M more; Mountain View WiFi delayed?
Abazab, a mobile video-sharing tool, launches; backed by DFJ
Rumor: Google negotiating to buy Olive for $70+M
Singshot = longshot; raises $1 million for karaoke play
Sequoia continues rampage abroad, acquires Indian firm Westbridge Capital
With Innovalight & Piper Jaffary's pump, Silicon Valley's green economy on a roll