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
Top VC firm Sequoia adds Carter, Harrison -- going late stage
Viacom scoops up Atom for $200M -- finally
Harvard pulls plug on ITU Ventures
Do you code?
Is Bay Partners falling apart? Maybe, maybe not
Local engineers find way to lower computer network costs: DC power
Bix, the online karaoke/dance competition site, launches
AOL to offer free personalized email domains, on day when user's identity is exposed
Healthcare IPOs rock on -- are you in the wrong business?
Palm and Yelp partner on local mobile search for Treo
Top VC firm Kleiner Perkins adds Jessica Owens
Wireless company Trapeze raises $30M -- stays on the trapeze
News Corp scores $900M from Google, a coup
HuffingtonPost.com raises $5 million, but East Coast money
Elevation, Bono grab ownership stake in Forbes
AOL responds to data leak. They screwed up.
Google's grab for videos
Watch out for low flying pigeons in Silicon Valley
The Business Week article on Digg, continued
Top VC firm Sequoia adds another partner, Chris Olsen
The VC bidding wars, and how SolFocus more than doubled its money
If you see this (Valleywag) guy, run!
AOL Research exposes data; we've got a little sick feeling
Roundup: The elitist Facebook copycat, NEA climbs wave to Bangalore, InFreeDA belly up?
Silicon Valley ad veterans launch start-up, Adify; raise $8million
Woz drives to South Pole in a Hummer
Kapor starts new Foxmarks: cross between Google & Wikipedia
Evernote raises $6 million to save all kinds of notes
Secretive hydrogen fuel company, Ion America , raises $103M
BusinessWeek on Digg: Crash, Sizzle, Pop!
Meebome may do fine without eBay
Skyrider gets $8M to launch new sort of search engine: of peer-to-peer
Early Google backer, Bechtolsheim, invests in stealthy Cresta
Google all-pervasive: now does XM Satellite Radio ads
Silicon Valley roundup: Khosla debunked?, Pincus censored, YouTube ain't that big, more
eBay rejects Meebome, saying it is against policy
Meebome -- lets you chat directly from any homepage
Green tech revolution continues: Expansion Capital raises $55M
Doll Capital Management raises new fund -- to invest more abroad
Kazeon, corporate search company, raises $21 million
Green-tech now bubbly: Altra raises more than $120 million
Venture firms are doing well -- a surprise
Stem-cell institute: Will it choose transparency or not?
Silicon Valley's education and alternative fuel initiatives -- What do you think?