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<title><![CDATA[The Apple fear factor]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The palpable fear that Apple evokes in Silicon Valley is getting worse by the month. As long as Apple keeps designing products that consumers love, the company is practically untouchable. (Credit:Apple)Yell &quot;Apple!&quot; in a theater crowded with Silicon Valley executives and watch how fast they head for the exits. Or, more realistically, drop the name into an interview and suddenly even the most long-winded marketing manager is speechless. This has always been vexing for me because the fear creates an iron curtain past which only Apple-sanctioned information can pass, at least in the U.S. Pretty much every person at every company that I talk to is under special orders not to utter a syllable about Apple. (I say &quot;pretty much&quot; because there may have been one or two cases that I'm not recalling.) What's going on here exactly Though this syndrome is not news in itself, it seems to be getting worse as Apple grows in size and influence. On the surface, it's pretty obvious. People are either directly or indirectly doing business with Apple and do not want to jeopardize financial ties with the almighty maker of MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads. At least, that's one of the more obvious reasons. And, of course, there's the theory that company executives will often demur anyway when being asked to comment about other companies. But not always. Some executives are foaming-at-the-mouth eager to contrast their company--positively of course--with another.But, below the surface, the level of fear and anxiety that Apple triggers is unprecedented, I think. And this is made worse by the hordes of oversensitive, hair-trigger Apple zealots who are ready to crucify anyone who offers even constructive criticism of an Apple product. Though I don't know this for a fact, I can only surmise that on some level this reflects the controlling nature of Apple corporate culture. Sadly, the only meaningful, i.e., critical, commentary I've ever heard about Apple is from a few Silicon Valley executives who always speak under the most strict conditions. In short, that I promise to never report their comments--with the implied threat that they will never speak to me again if I do. So, in this sense, I play my part too. That said, it's hard to argue with success. As long as Apple continues to crank out products that everybody wants, the fear factor will be there. (And I'll continue to buy MacBooks, iPads, and iPhones.) Oh well. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Box.net bumps free, paid storage capacities]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=box-net-bumps-free-paid-storage-capacities</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Following Moore's Law, data storage continues to get speed and capacity boosts at quite a clip--all the while coming down in cost and physical size. One business benefiting from that trend is Web storage and collaboration service Box.net. The amount of data the company once got for their money back in 2005 is now five times larger and takes up considerably less space, the company says. As a result, Box.net this morning is putting out big changes to its offerings that give users more overall storage. Beginning with the personal plan (which is free), users now get 5GB of storage--up from 1GB. Business users get a much larger boost, going up to 500GB from 15GB. That 500GB is a pool of storage--not a per-user allotment--but it can end up being much more space for a small team than was offered before. Meanwhile, the company's enterprise plan will continue to exist without limits on how much space users take up.(Credit:Box)Box.net now runs out of two separate data centers, as well as being tied into Amazon's S3 as part of the company's back-up systems. According to CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie, who spoke with CNET earlier this week, Box is now pushing up against a petabyte (or 1,024 terabytes) of stored user files, though that figure doesn't even include all the space used by back-ups. &quot;There's a lot more data in our redundancies and how we store it,&quot; he said.Meanwhile, the company is working on what Levie described as a &quot;new crop&quot; of open-source, distributed file systems that the company hopes will improve how much the current system can scale. The end goal is to continue to bring costs down and push out additional storage boosts like today's to Box's customers. &quot;We're moving toward a future where storage isn't an issue,&quot; Levie said. &quot;You should never have to worry about how much storage you use.&quot;Today's upgrades are going out to new Box.net sign-ups right away, and existing users will get upgraded over the next few weeks. Previously: Box.net arrives on Android devices<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[StumbleUpon Video Finds TED And Hulu Content And Takes Surfing&nbsp'Social]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&amp;''People like stumbling videos more than webpages,&amp;'' StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp tells us in explaining why the service has decided to revamp their video offering, which they&amp;'re doing tonight. While you&amp;'ve been able to stumble through videos for a couple of years now, they&amp;'re finally making the experience more social. And they&amp;'re adding two big names to the arsenal: TED and Hulu.Previously, StumbleUpon was simply using trending data to find hot videos to take your through. But now they&amp;'ve integrated their social recommendation engine into the mix to make the entire experience more personalized. In other words, you&amp;'ll now be taken to videos liked by people you&amp;'re connected with on the service.And with this as well as the addition of videos from TED and Hulu, the company hopes the experience becomes more than just watching the latest viral videos on YouTube. In fact, Camp talks about this as being more of a &amp;''social TV&amp;'' experience and &amp;''a good alternative to television surfing&amp;''.Of course, right now, this is all still confined to the browser, but Camp does envision a future where they bring this social video browsing experience into the living room. The key to that, he says, is making sure all the content is in HD. In the web browser, that doesn&amp;'t matter so much, in the living room, it does.StumbleUpon plus Hulu is particularly interesting here because it is a bit like traditional television surfing. You can stumble through episodes of shows that your friends like. And if you find one you like, you can stay there and watch it. I asked if they were worried that Hulu might not like this usage (Hulu is notorious for blocking unauthorized access), but Camp said he&amp;'s sure they&amp;'ll be fine with this, because it&amp;'s just about finding what you want to watch on Hulu then watching it the same way, ads and all.Camp also notes that they&amp;'ve added a lot of Vimeo content into the mix recently. And says that while there aren&amp;'t currently any Facebook videos, it&amp;'s something they may think about in the future a4&quot; but it&amp;'s tricky because of the privacy issues and API access needed.As for other large videos site, Camp says they&amp;'re looking at them all. Pretty much anyone using embeddable Flash can be easily added at any point, he says.CrunchBase InformationStumbleUponInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ahead Of A Wide Launch Next Year, Apple Previews iAds For iPad With Tron&nbsp'Legacy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[While Apple has spent much of the latter part of this year ramping up their iAd platform for iOS devices, they have not yet focused on one key area: the iPad. That will change in early 2011, when the company will begin a full-on advertising assault within apps made for the popular tablet device. And today they&amp;'re offering a glimpse of that future. And they&amp;'re wisely doing it with Tron.Apple and Disney have teamed up to show off what iAds for the iPad will look like with a Tron Legacy unit that begin to appear today in some iPad apps, we&amp;'re told. &amp;''Disney and Apple are excited to debut the &amp;8216'Tron Legacy&amp;' iAd today as a special preview of iAd for iPad, which launches next year. iAd brings &amp;8216'Tron&amp;'s&amp;' pulsing energy and vivid graphic style to iPad&amp;'s stunning display, creating a truly immersive ad experience,&amp;'' the joint statement between the two companies reads.Much like iAds for the iPhone, iAds for the iPad will be heavily based around a rich media experience that makes it seem almost as if you&amp;'re in an app within an app. You click on the Tron Legacy banner ad and you&amp;'re taken into an ad that takes up the entire large screen of the iPad and shows you options to view Tron videos, see photo galleries, look at character bios, and get music previews (from the popular Daft Punk-scored soundtrack).Of course, like iAds for the iPhone, the real key will be getting attractive advertisers to sign up for the platform as well. While Apple had some big names to share when they unveiled iAds, since they launched, the reviews from developers and advertisers have been mixed. Developers seem to complain about not enough inventory, while advertisers complain that Apple is too strict on how they should make their ads.Disney is an obvious test case for Apple as the two have had tight partnerships in recent years. Undoubtedly, this is helped by the fact that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is Disney&amp;'s largest shareholder and sits on their Board of Directors.As mobile advertising begins to ramp up, advertising on devices like the iPad will be interesting to watch. Will advertisers choose to create new kinds of ads specifically for tablets Apple&amp;'s bet is clearly &amp;''yes&amp;''.a4sAnd it&amp;'s hard to blame Apple for getting Tron fever, we have it too!AdAge has a couple glimpses at what the Tron iAds look like.Update: And we snagged a high resolution glimpse of the ad as well.CrunchBase InformationAppleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How GetGlue plans to dominate TV check-ins (and more)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[AdaptiveBlue, a New York City startup that lets users a4Acheck ina4 to TV shows to share what theya4a4re watching with their friends, recently raised $6 million in funding Time Warner and others. Ia4a4ve seen a ton of TV check-in apps in the last few months, so I asked founder and chief executive Alex Iskold how GetGlue (thata4a4s the name of the app) will stand out.The key, Iskold said, is that GetGlue is a platform. Yes, therea4a4s a check-in app that users can download for their iPhone and iPad, but media companies can also add GetGluea4a4s check-in technology to their own apps, and they can add GetGlue widgets to their websites and Facebook Pages. A network could add a widget to a TV show website, and fans could then use a widget to say, a4AIa4a4m watching Doctor Who,a4 which could then be shared on Facebook, Twitter, and within the GetGlue app itself.Iskold added:The fact is that every major media company already has iPhone and iPad apps &amp;8212' this is because these apps offer unique way to engage with fans, bring them unique content and rewards. Adding check-ins to these apps makes a lot of sense, because you want to know that they user is engaged and watching.The API goes beyond widgets and exposes full control of GetGlue stack. Partners can tap into specific stickers, for example, displaying all rewards from their show inside their apps or web site. Also, partners can tap into personalized suggestions and user profile (all permission based using OAuth).Thata4a4s a  different approach than competitors like Miso and Philo, which seem more focused on their own apps.The platform has already been used by USA, Showtime, and Discovery, Iskold said, and he plans to expand its usage among GetGluea4a4s other partners, which include more than a4Athree dozen top entertainment brands.a4GetGlue isna4a4t limited to TV check ins either &amp;8212' Iskold said TV is the biggest part of the app, but users can also check in to content like movies, music, and books. When I talked to Philo chief executive David Levy in July, he touted the companya4a4s focus on TV, but Iskold argued that ita4a4s important to be more complete.a4AWithout other bits, the experience is too narrow,a4 he said. a4ATV check-ins are evening only, but during the day people listen to music, on the weekends people head to movies, play video games and read books.a4Next Story: Week in review: Why Google needs DRM Previous Story: Entrepreneur Corner: Modern marketing and smart hiringPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: GetGlue, TV check-insCompanies: adaptivebluePeople: Alex Iskold          Tags: GetGlue, TV check-insCompanies: adaptivebluePeople: Alex IskoldAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kleiner&'s John Doerr: &''We were wrong&'' to turn down Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=kleinerrsquos-john-doerr-8220we-were-wrong8221-to-turn-down-twitter</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=kleinerrsquos-john-doerr-8220we-were-wrong8221-to-turn-down-twitter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[More venture capitalists have an embarrassing, &amp;''I can&amp;'t believe we didn&amp;'t invest in that company&amp;'' moment. For Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers&amp;' John Doerr (whose past investments include Amazon.com and Google), it sounds like one of those moments involved turning down a chance to invest in Twitter.When Twitter&amp;'s founders approached Kleiner, Doerr said it was very early, the company didn&amp;'t have any users, it didn&amp;'t have any traction, &amp;''It wasn&amp;'t Twitter.&amp;'' Doerr said that Twitter has now become an &amp;''incredibly powerful information network&amp;'' but not a social network. Summing up the decision, he said: &amp;''We were wrong.&amp;''For the past few years, Kleiner appeared to have backed away from non-cleantech investments in general, and social networking in particular &amp;8212' in part, presumably, because Kleiner had already invested in Friendster. (The firm is coming back with the $250 million sFund, building on the success of its social gaming investment in Zynga.)Twitter investor Fred Wilson of Union Square Venture Partners was on-stage with Doerr at the Web 2.0 Summit. While the pair had been arguing pretty passionately about companies like Apple and Google, he stepped in to defend Doerr on this count. Turning down Twitter may have been a mistake, but beyond specific investments, Wilson said Doerr is still the &amp;''Michael Jordan of venture capital.&amp;''Next Story: Google investor John Doerr: Zynga is our best company ever Previous Story: All Points Bulletin goes free to play, but will that save it from being a bad gamePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: bad decisionsCompanies: Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, Twitter, Union Square Venture PartnersPeople: Fred Wilson, John Doerr          Tags: bad decisionsCompanies: Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers, Twitter, Union Square Venture PartnersPeople: Fred Wilson, John DoerrAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zetta brings in $11.5M for enterprise cloud storage]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=zetta-brings-in-11-5m-for-enterprise-cloud-storage</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Zetta, a company that provides cloud storage to businesses, has raised $11.5 million in a second round of funding,according to a filing with the SEC. Existing investorsFoundation Capital andSigma Partners contributed to the round.Founded in 2007, Zetta provides instant data recovery to enterprises in the healthcare, technology, energy and education sectors. The company is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has raised$22.5 million to date.Next Story: Kineto Wireless gets $3M to improve mobile phone coverage Previous Story: Google offering live hockey stats as it enters melee for real-time dataPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[That&'s Ballmer With A &''B&'' a4a4 For&nbsp'&''Billions&'']]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, Steve Ballmer certainly had a productive week.Over the past three days, the Microsoft CEO has sold 49.3 million shares of his company stock, Reuters reports. With the share price hovering around $27, the sale has made him about $1.3 billion. Not bad for three days.And he&amp;'s not done yet. Ballmer apparently intends to sell as much as 75 million of his shares in total by the end of the year. At the current prices, that would earn him about $2 billion, all told.Microsoft and Ballmer are both quick to say that people shouldn&amp;'t read too much into the massive stock sale. He called the move a &amp;''personal financial matter,&amp;'' in a statement. But that won&amp;'t stop most from doing just that. As The Next Web wonders, why is Ballmer selling these shares right now with two buzz-worthy products, Kinect and Windows Phone, just hitting the market in time for the holiday shopping season Does he not think they&amp;'ll help propel the company&amp;'s stock priceTruth is, despite their huge financial success, not much has helped moved the company&amp;'s stock price over the past decade. In November of 2000, the share price was in the $30s. The highest it has gotten in that span is just about $37-a-share almost exactly three years ago. The price has gone as low as $15-a-share, but that was during the most recent economic collapse. Microsoft did split the stock in February of 2003.Compare that stock performance to rival Apple, which has gone from around $7-a-share a decade ago, to $317-a-share today.Others will wonder if this means Ballmer is on his way out as CEO. Again, despite the bottom-line success, there have been no shortage of calls for his ouster, partially because of the success rivals like Apple and Google have had during his tenure.a4s&amp;''I am excited about our new products and the potential for our technology to change people&amp;'s lives, and I remain fully committed to Microsoft and its success,&amp;'' was Ballmer&amp;'s statement on the matter.But one important thing to consider is the up-in-the-air issue of the capital gains tax. Thea4slikelihooda4sis that it&amp;'s going to stay largely the same but go up a bit next year, but it could go far higher as the Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire at the end of this year. And when you&amp;'re talking gains in the billions of dollars range, that&amp;'s a lot of money Ballmer could lose if he&amp;'s not smart about his investments.This news also comes just a month after it was revealed that Ballmer earned only 50 percent of his yearly bonus in Microsoft&amp;'s last fiscal year. Despite huge numbers for the year, Microsoft performance in mobile and tablets a4&quot; or lack thereof a4&quot; knocked his million-plus bonus down to about $670,000. But that&amp;'s chump change compared to what we&amp;'re talking about here, obviously.And despite the massive sale, Ballmer will remain the second largest shareholder in the company behind only Bill Gates. He currently owns a little over 4 percent of Microsoft, compared to Gates&amp;' 7 percent. That means on paper, Ballmer has been worth about $10 billion. And now he&amp;'s converting a nice chunk of that to cheddar. Ballmer. Baller.[photo: flickr/orcnid]CrunchBase InformationMicrosoftSteve BallmerInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[E-mail signatures for Election '08 - Springwise]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
<category>Social</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=e-mail-signatures-for-election-08---springwise</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As the US presidential election winds up to a fever pitch in these last few campaign months, there''s no doubt passionate supporters in both camps are looking for ways to give their side an edge. One such tool now comes in the form of a custom e-mail signature that proudly displays the allegiance of its user.Austrian E-Mail Charity specializes in the creation of e-mail signatures to support a variety of charitable causes, including Care and Doctors without Borders. Users simply enter their contact information as they''d like it to appear, and the company''s specialized installer creates and automatically installs a signature widget including that and a banner advertising the charity of their choice. Now the same can be done to support either Obama or McCain in the presidential race. On the Obama side, available banners include Latinos for Obama, Republicans for Obama and Americans Abroad for Obama, while opposing banners include &quot;McCain Stands for Experience&quot; and &quot;McCain&amp;8212'Country First.&quot; Creating and using E-Mail Charity''s signatures is free, and virtually all e-mail clients are supported' text-only versions are available for webmail users. As the company explains, &quot;If only a few of your friends join in on using E-mail Charity, a viral marketing effect for your cause/charity is launched.&quot;The election signatures appear to be E-Mail Charity''s first effort targeting e-mail users outside of Austria. One to help localize in a market near you to harness consumer marketeers for the change you believe in (Related: Viral music sales through widgets.)Website: election08.emailcharity.comContact: office@emailcharity.com Spotted by: Lukas Z.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Yahoo SVP David Ku Joins Microsoft As Corporate VP Of New&nbsp'Initiatives]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob001</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Last month, Yahoo SVP David Ku, who headed the company&amp;'s advertising products group, left the company. Yahoo has been hemorrhaging talent lately a4&quot; including some high ranking executives a4&quot; and Ku was an especially big loss because he&amp;'s been with the company since 2002.  Now we&amp;'ve confirmed Ku&amp;'s next move: he&amp;'s joining Microsoft as Corporate Vice President, Online Services Division New Initiatives, effective October 29th, 2010.We initially heard that Ku would be working directly on Bing (which is part of Microsoft&amp;'s&amp;' Online Services Division) but a Microsoft spokesperson tell us that he&amp;'ll be involved with a range of initiatives across the division.In addition to advertising experience, Ku has quite a bit of product experience as well: he was Yahoo&amp;'s VP Engineering, Search from April 2002 until December 2005. According to his LinkedIn profile, this included running Yahoo&amp;'s core search, social search, vertical search (images, video, shopping), Flickr, and more.At Yahoo, Ku was replaced by Mark Morrissey who serves as SVP of Ad Platforms and Products (Yahoo consolidated its ad platforms under one exec).CrunchBase InformationDavid KuMicrosoftYahoo!Information provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Winklevoss twins on Facebook lawsuit: Ita4a4s not about the money]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twins who (along with their business partner Divya Narendra) accuse Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea, got a big write-up in The New York Times for their ongoing legal dispute with Facebook.Wea4a4ve covered this case a number of times before. The twins settled with Facebook in 2008 for $20 million in cash and $45 million in Facebook shares, but tried to back out of the deal almost immediately when unflattering instant messages from Zuckerberg came to light. They moved forward with an appeal earlier this year, arguing that their shares might be worth much less than Facebook claimed, according to a valuation made at the time. (VentureBeat&amp;'s Owen Thomas argued that Facebook is a4Aplaying a dangerous gamea4 by claiming that it had no obligation to disclose the lower valuation.)So whata4a4s new in the Times story The legal details are pretty much the same, but Times reporter Miguel Helft interviewed the twins and offers a better sense of why they&amp;'re pursuing the appeal. After all, no matter what Facebooka4a4s valuation was at the time, the a4AWinkleviia4 (the twins&amp;' popular nickname from the movie The Social Network) seem guaranteed to make a bunch of cash from their shares once Facebook has an initial public offering. By throwing out the settlement, therea4a4s a chance they could end up with nothing at all. But the twins said it&amp;'s about the principle, not the money.a4AThe principle is that they didna4a4t fight fair,a4 Tyler Winklevoss said. a4AThe principle is that Mark stole the idea.a4The twins later told Helft (in unison!) that Zuckerberg only deserves credit for a4Anot screwing upa4 their idea, and that if he hadna4a4t started Facebook, their site ConnectU could have been the one with hundreds of millions of users.If we are to take the twins at their word, this helps explain why Facebook hasna4a4t been able to make this lawsuit go away. Ita4a4s not about money, but credit, and the fact that the Winklevii want to be more than footnotes in one of the tech worlda4a4s biggest success stories.Next Story: GM leads Nissan in December electric car sales as supply trickles in Previous Story: Everythinga4a4s connected: Why all marketing will become socialPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: lawsuitsCompanies: FacebookPeople: Cameron Winklevoss, Mark Zuckerberg, Tyler Winklevoss          Tags: lawsuitsCompanies: FacebookPeople: Cameron Winklevoss, Mark Zuckerberg, Tyler WinklevossAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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