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<title><![CDATA[LinkedIn files for IPO]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[LinkedIn has formally announced its plans to go public through the filing of an S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this afternoon, making it the first time that the business networking site has turned over many of the detailed facts about its financial operations.&quot;We believe we are transforming the way people work by connecting talent with opportunity at massive scale,&quot; LinkedIn explained in its filing. &quot;Our goal is to provide a global platform capable of mapping every professional's experience, skills, and other relevant professional data to his or her professional graph, including connections with colleagues and business contacts.&quot;Through a combination of advertising and business services, LinkedIn has managed to actually make some money in the process. Net revenue in the first nine months of 2010 was $161 million, with a profit of $10 million' in the same period in the previous year, it logged half that revenue and only $3.4 million in profit.LinkedIn has more than 90 million registered members, up from 55 million a year before--a statistic that it's been more vocal about as a private company. But in the S-1 filing, the company warned that not all of its registered users are active and that a minority of members are responsible for the &quot;substantial&quot; majority of its 5.5 billion page views.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AOL Mail down for some users]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>winterabsidjenhgsw</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[AOL Mail is suffering from some issues.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)Some of AOL Mail's users have been unable to log in to their accounts since yesterday, and they're starting to get upset.AOL announced on its Mail blog yesterday that it was performing scheduled maintenance that was &quot;taking us a little longer than expected.&quot; It said in the post that users would see older messages in their inbox, while others wouldn't be able to log in.As the day wore on, the issues users were experiencing continued, prompting the Web company to update its blog with another post last night, saying that &quot;some&quot; of its users were still being affected. At that time, it didn't have a fix and asked users to be patient.&quot;Some of you continue to be affected by today's mail problems,&quot; AOL's Mail Team wrote on its blog. &quot;Unfortunately the issue persists, and has taken us longer than expected to resolve. We understand this is a tremendous inconvenience, and we're working hard to correct this as quickly as possible.&quot;So far this morning, some users are still experiencing log-in issues. And many of those folks have taken to Twitter to express their displeasure.&quot;Anybody know what is going on with AOL Mail&quot; one person asked on the social network. &quot;[I've] been typing the right password, but it's been saying it's not correct.&quot;Another user said that they were finally able to access their e-mail today, but when they got back to their inbox, they found that the last two months of e-mails were &quot;gone.&quot;That sentiment was echoed by a tipster to CNET News who said that &quot;a large group of people are still missing almost two months worth of e-mails, several of them stating that important business documents are gone.&quot;AOL's users have also criticized AOL on the company's help page. As of this writing, 481 answers have been given to a user asking &quot;what's going on&quot; with the company's e-mail platform. The page has been viewed over 150,000 times.In an e-mailed statement to CNET, an AOL representative said that &quot;less than 1 percent of users are impacted&quot; by the issue right now. The company said that it's currently working with those affected users &quot;to help remedy the situation.&quot;Updated at 12:02 p.m. PTto include AOL statement.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Music app maker Smule: The Verizon iPhone sets us free]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It doesna4a4t look like the Verizon iPhone will offer much in the way of new features for application developers. But Jeff Smith, co-founder and chief executive of music app-maker Smule, seemed pretty giddy about the announcement when I talked to him this morning.Why the excitement Smith said it all comes down to data. AT&amp;amp'Ta4a4s network (both its voice and data plans) has been overwhelmed by the demand in iPhone-heavy areas like San Francisco and New York, leading to frequent complaints and criticism.And thata4a4s had an impact on apps.  Smith said that a number of his companya4a4s products, which include some of the coolest and most popular apps on the iPhone (such as Ocarina and Glee Karaoke), require users to both upload and download significant amounts of data through the network. As a result, he argued that Smulea4a4s negative reviews boil down to bad connectivity, with complaints like a4Acouldna4a4t download the appa4 or a4AI got a blank screena4.Come February, Smith predicted data-hungry iPhone users will be migrating in large numbers to Verizon, where they will have a much more reliable connection. That wona4a4t just mean a better experience on Smulea4a4s existing apps. It will also give the company more leeway to build apps where most of the content and features are accessed online, rather than downloaded completely to your phone. Developers are moving in that direction, Smith said, because it allows them to update and add new content to their apps more quickly, rather than waiting for approval from Apple.Smith added that Smule itself will be moving from AT&amp;amp'T to Verizon. The team will still keep one or two AT&amp;amp'T phones around, he said, so that it can continue to test apps for AT&amp;amp'T users, and just to have a4Asomething to look at and to throw fruit at,a4 Smith said.Next Story: It could be 2012 before 4G LTE Verizon iPhone arrives Previous Story: NYC Turing Fellows Program imports elite tech studentsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Glee Karaoke, iPhone, iPhone 4, OcarinaCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, Smule, VerizonPeople: Jeff Smith          Tags: Glee Karaoke, iPhone, iPhone 4, OcarinaCompanies: AT&amp;amp'T, Smule, VerizonPeople: Jeff SmithAnthony 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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<title><![CDATA[How solar and oil can coexist in Saudi Arabia]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Oil-rich Saudi Arabia wants to become an exporter of solar.Yup, that&amp;'s right. The country&amp;'s oil minister confirmed Saudi Arabia&amp;'s solar ambitions last year and said the country has the potential to export power, not just oil. So far it seems to be moving on that promise. The Saudi Arabia-South Korea joint venture Polysilicon Technology Co. said this week it had signed a $380 million deal to build a $1.5 billion plant for manufacturing polysilicon, which is used in solar panels.Saudi Arabian solar, however, looks like it&amp;'s a part of an overall oil strategy. The country wants to diversify its energy portfolio with solar and nuclear. By reducing its need to burn oil for electricity, it can preserve more oil for money-making exports, Reuters writes.A handful of foreign companies have moved on solar opportunities in Saudi Arabia so far. Last year, SolFocusannounced it would build the first and largest concentrated photovoltaic solar system in Saudi Arabia,delivering around 300 megawatt-hours of energy. Japanese thin-film solar company Solar Frontier will also provide 10 megawatts in a solar installation for a car park.While renewable energy enthusiasts and companies often talk about cleantech as a way to end use of oil and fossil fuels, Saudi Arabia&amp;'s approach shows that in reality, the two are becoming complementary.In fact, solar is being used to extract oil. This week GlassPoint said using solar to generate steam had become economical enough that the company was deploying it at its oilfields, where solar-generated steam is pumped into wells to help extract oil. BrightSource Energy is also deploying a similar solar steam approach at a Chevron oilfield, where it is expected to lower the cost of generating steam and thus result in cheaper oil, Greentech Media reports.The renewable-fossil fuels crossover stretches to the area of energy efficiency. Other companies that have won investment latelyaim to make the extraction and refining of fossil fuels more efficient. NEOS GeoSolutions, which has the backing of Bill Gates and Goldman Sachs, uses geophysical sensors and data analysis to determine the best areas to drill for oil and natural gas. (The use of sensors and data analysis is becoming increasingly common and important in the area of energy efficiency and management among cleantech companies).Rive Technologies makes oil-refining catalysts that help refiners squeeze more yield out of crude oil, and the technology could one day be applied to biofuels.Next Story: Apple confirms iPad 2 with all-new design Previous Story: How Facebook will be committing a4Acommercidea4 on July 1stPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: oil, Saudi Arabia, SolarCompanies: BrightSource Energy, Chevron, GlassPoint, Goldman Sachs, Neos GeoSolutions, Polysilicon Technology Co., Rive Technologies, Solar Frontier, SolFocus          Tags: oil, Saudi Arabia, SolarCompanies: BrightSource Energy, Chevron, GlassPoint, Goldman Sachs, Neos GeoSolutions, Polysilicon Technology Co., Rive Technologies, Solar Frontier, SolFocusIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name). Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat 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[Put that holding elevator music on hold with Fastcustomer]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I hate being on hold on the phone. I always feel obligated to keep my hand on my phone, and I have a chronic fear that I&amp;'ll finally make it off hold the second I put my phone down.Well, it looks like there&amp;'s an online service that will finally assuage those fears called Fastcustomer. It&amp;'s ridiculously simple a4&quot; a user just visits the website, types in a company and types in their phone number. After a few minutes, which they would otherwise spend on hold listening to bad elevator music, the user will get a call that will put them on-line with the customer service representative immediately.The company also has an iPhone application that does about the same thing with a different interface. The application has a list of companies that the user can select. They tap the company and can then close the application and wait for the call to come. The application landed on the Apple App Store late last month. An Android application is on the way as soon as the company finds an Android developer, according to a post on Y Combinator&amp;'s news aggregator Hacker News.The service on the website is free to use. The company said it has been on hold for more than 15,000 minutes, &amp;''because WE LOVES HOLDING,&amp;'' according to its website. It uses Twilio, a telephony application programming interface (API) that gives developers a way to interact with dial tones and phone functions through programs.The average person is typically on hold for more than 50 hours each year trying to resolve any number of problems, according to the company. That number seems a bit high, but I know I&amp;'ve felt at least a touch of rage listening to that infuriating elevator music.The service is similar to Knockknock, a company funded by Dave McClure&amp;'s Twilio Startup Fund. But Knockknock users have to call into the service and record the name of the company and the department they want to get in touch with, rather than using an online form or an application. Knockknock is still in private beta, as well.It does seem like a service like this is ripe for abuse a4&quot; such as some bored kid on the Internet getting companies to call random people. So far, the company doesn&amp;'t have any plans to counteract that abuse a4&quot; the team wants to see how the problem evolves and how to handle it in the future, they said in a post on Hacker News. ButFastcustomer is definitely something I plan on using the next time I have to get in touch with a customer service rep. Even if it is just to play a few extra minutes of Minecraft or a game on my Nintendo DS.Next Story: No Twitter IPO this year, says co-founder Biz Stone Previous Story: Now that&amp;'s a rant: Brenda Brathwaite unloads on social game hatersPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: conference calls, elevator music, holdingCompanies: Fastcustomer, Twilio          Tags: conference calls, elevator music, holdingCompanies: Fastcustomer, TwilioMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat 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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