Monthly Archives for August 2006
Download and print entire books at GoogleApple and Google alliance -- makes sense given culture, goals
Valley VCs are on fire: Lots of deals, including bloated Force10, PlayPhone & Groxis...
New head of CIA's venture operations: Christopher Darby
Roundup -- PayPal's Thiel sued, Web 2.0 hitting wall, collective delusion & eBay strays on Yahoo
Zend raises $20 million to ride the Web 2.0 "PHP" boom
Google offers "Google Apps for your Domain"
Dash: New Kleiner-Sequoia start-up delivers Internet-connected navigation device for cars
Roundup: SanDisk's iPod competitor, interactive billboards & more
Former Tribe leader Pincus back at helm; pledges "new direction"
Pinger, the voice message service, is up
Bill Joy's $50 million eco-friendly yacht
ChemoCentryx's $1.5 billion: Are you in the wrong business?
Venture capital roundup: The MySpace "touch", True Ventures and Maven's web woes
Advanced Cell Technology makes profound stem-cell breakthrough
Wablet offers IM widget, but filters out the riff-raff
Roundup: Quattrone, Carlyle, Omidyar's social lending, and more
Pinger, a pretty cool vmail service
Mobile search company 4Info carries TV Guide listings
Sony buys video start-up Grouper for $65 million
Arrington, blogging for bucks, and SV media circus continued
Roundup -- Facebook's notes, Box.net, and other news
Rejecting VCs, gaming company iWin raises $5M from angels
Cisco buys Arroyo -- a back-end TiVo -- and is now really in your living-room
YouTube showcases Paris in new homepage ad; and check out "PodTube"
Guba cuts prices on legal movies; can it make money?
Feed Crier, Kiko -- the innovative beat goes on, without spending millions
Techcrunch Party VII -- the bare essentials
Friendster raises $10 million more; Facebook valued at $500M?
Farecast, the airfare predictor, launches nationwide
The Tesla Roadster taken for a spin; and its "gut-wrenching" VC roadshow
Roundup -- Digg Video, Top-videos site, Yahoo Photos, Zune, YouTube
Second life holds convention in SF -- so users can get...a life
Question: Is Metcalfe's Law relevant?
Feeds2Be: Either you create an RSS feed, or you will be "scraped"
Boingo raises $65M; The bulging pockets of New Enterprise Associates
Roundup: The VC Carwash, Popsugar, Khosla's latest, Facebook opens, Decentral.TV, Blotter
Crescendo's two strikes, and why it matters
Even with Neven Vision, Google is "one step behind Riya"
MySpaces surpasses YouTube in video
When you raise >$100M, bank on an IPO, and fail: The cases of Alien, Vonage
Technorati quietly raises $3 million more
What is up with YouTube?
Roundup: EFF files complaint against AOL, Wiki.com sold for $3M, Segway
Network Applicance's Warmenhoven: "Witch Hunt" in Silicon Valley
Latest Google stuff: Local coupons, Google games, Google WiFi
Oracle to announce their own branded version of Linux?
Roundup: Google's adult videos, Microsoft's "YouTube of gaming" initiative, and more
Clearstone's David Stern: "Will MySpace eat its young?"
NetVibes, the slick "homepage" company, raises $15 million
Userplane, instant messaging company, snapped up by AOL
Fanpop launches; cross between Digg and Yahoo Groups
MeeVee wants to be your TV Guide: Raises $8 million more
Going ape over MySpace; Browster's new release
Solar revolution continues in California, China
Bono & McNamee chose Forbes for "tech central" over....Mercury News
Roundup: Last Google Jet hearing, VC China wars, Capton, Vysr, Wablet, more
Hubpages helps you publish and make money; raises $2 million
Digg's Kevin Rose can't afford a couch
Web stats are broken -- so you'd better have brass knuckles