My guest on Ask A VC this week is Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures. He&'s also a professional kiteboarder. You may ask: Why would a guy who has been...
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It&'s been a long stretch, but Google is nearing the finish line with its Chrome OS netbook operating system. The company sent out invitations today t...
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The top two editors of the huge gadget site Engadget are leaving AOL.Both Josh Topolsky (pictured), editor-in-chief of Engadget, and Nilay Patel, mana...
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Last week, MercuryNews.com revealed that Apple made a massive land purchase near their current headquarters in Cupertino, CA. They actually bought th...
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Google is bleeding talent. As companies mature, that tends to happen. But the fact that a large number are defecting to rival Facebook clearly has Goo...
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Earlier today, Reuters ran a short interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in which he talked about the possibility of tweets being used to create...
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If you want to feel lazy, spend about ten minutes with Travis Kiefer.
He&'ll start out by telling you how he spent every waking moment of his teenage ...
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Adobe warned yesterday that its Flash, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader products all have a critical vulnerability that will allow an attacker to take contr...
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At Le Web I ran into Rodrigo SepƂlveda Schulz, serial entrepreneur and now investor. I asked him about the startup market in France, a market which ...
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Nlyte Software (formerly Global DataCenter Management) closed a $12 million series C investment led by NGEN Partners with Balderton Capital, Ruffer L...
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Bankruptcy has a way of making a chief executive focus on what&'s important. John Kispert, CEO of the once-bankrupt and now profitable chip maker Span...
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Google announced today that it intends to give away $5 million dollars to organizations trying to find innovative ways to continue the practice of Jou...
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Here&'s what&'s happening today on the GreenBeat:Wind and solar stocks jump in wake of Japanese nuclear crisis. Shares of
clean energy equipment maker...
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Last month we covered a service called Printing Facebook which turned all your Facebook friends&' profile pictures into a giant 20X40 inch &''real li...
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The rumors of the king&'s demise were greatly exaggerated. First-person shooter Duke Nukem Forever, one of the most iconic vaporware titles of all tim...
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Christopher Poole, the founder of controversial online image board 4chan, outlined his vision for Web-based community today at the South by Southwest ...
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An update to our post earlier today: We&'ve confirmed that local shopping startup Milo has in fact been acquired by eBay, for $75 million. Business In...
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It&'s good to be Apple. This is true in many ways, but especially in the mobile applications business. According to research firm Gartner, nine out of...
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Perhaps tired of seeing its customers dump traditional cable service in favor of online video (a process known as cord cutting), telecom giant Comcast...
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Max Schaefer is the head of Runic Games, a tiny game startup with a big punch. He and his brother Erich have been making fantasy role-playing games fo...
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