GigaOM

Sramana Mitra introduced me to Keyur Patel, indicating that we would have a lot to talk about, especially in the light of my the then recent story for Business 2.0, The Rise of the Instant Company. We met for a quick drink at the Four Seasons Bar, and ended up talking for hours about how [...]

Get ready for another SF Techsession, tonight at the Westin. St. Francis in downtown San Francisco. The theme this month is online communities and interaction. Making 15-minute presentations are Skobee, Vast, Songbird, and Mozes. Click here to add the event to your iCal.
Raj wrote up the notes and minutes of the session.

MVNOs are the new Macarena - before you learnt the steps, the damn thing was over. Especially, when you look at new comer, cool.Prepaid, a mobile virtual service that wanted to marry high-end Motorola phones like the RAZR with low-end monthly plans. That’s a match made in fiscal hell, but nevertheless these are the new [...]

Facebook, the college social networking site, and a phenom I wrote about for Business 2.0 is apparently on the block. Business Week reports that the company is looking to get close to $2 billion, and had passed on a $750 million offer. Well, I think they should have taken the $750 million. Why?
Just look at [...]

Talk about a really bad rumor! This site is reporting on a new iPhone, talking with supreme confidence that it has details of the “new iPhone.”
Of course you know its not true, because they are trying to pass off the image that appeared on the cover of Business 2.0 back in April 2005 as the [...]

In five years, most major metros and suburbs will have ubiquitous Wi-Fi based broadband coverage says Chuck Haas, the co-founder and chief executive officer of MetroFi, a Mountain View, Calif.,-based start-up that is rolling out metro wireless networks. He thinks most metros and suburban areas in the US will be WiFi hot-zones, by end of [...]