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When did you know you should quit our job and go full time with your startup?

This is a question founders get asked again and again — by the curious, by company “lifers” and “fulltimers,” and especially by those who have their own little start up in their back pocket. But I don’t think this is […]

You’ve got to hand it to Amazon.com. For bulls and bears alike, the stock keeps making as many sudden and unpredictable turns as a Harry Potter novel. And it inspires as much debate as a passionate screed from Al Gore or Christopher Hitchens.

Of course, the plot turns have been much more enjoyable for the bulls […]

Click2Call (C2C) technology is slowly but steadily spreading. VoiceStar and several start-ups have been trying to build their business around C2C technology. Skype and Google are very interested in the one-click calling as well.

The latest company to make a splash in the space is MyBlueZebra, based in New York. The company provides C2C services in […]

First Fon, then Whisher and now WeFi – the start-ups focused on sharing of Wi-Fi connections keep on coming. Of course, each one has their own twist. FON does this through their own hardware (or by partnering with carriers), Whisher is a software only play. The latest entrant is WeFi, a LondonMountain View, Calif.-based company […]

The first quarter of 2007 has been good for DSL, thanks to higher than expected growth in China and other Asian economies, according to Dittberner Associates. China contributed more than a third of the total 12 million new DSL connections in the first quarter, which also helped Chinese equipment makers, Huwaei and ZTE, who took […]

Necessity, they say is the mother of invention. It couldn’t be more true in case of Africa, where pre-paid airtime is fast becoming the ‘virtual’ currency for Pan-African trade, overcoming conventional currency exchange and lack of banking infrastructure. It started out as phone users in Nigeria, especially in the rural areas trading minutes, but then […]