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The woes of the recorded music industry have been well documented. Sales of CDs thus far this year are down 20% compared to last year. Revenues from digital distribution continue to grow but not enough to prevent further downsizing. All of which is why the labels are turning over every rock looking [...]

“Every once in a while a platform comes along that allows people to build a completely new application — sometimes even starts new industries,” Marc Zuckerberg, chief executive and founder of Facebook said at the launch of Facebook developer network earlier this week. He might just have added … “and infrastructure problems.”
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I’m finding that funding “matchmakers” can sometimes turn into troublemakers. I need advice for how to deal with a recurring problem with financing entanglements.

My startup is in the process of raising our 2nd round of financing. During our seed funding round a situation occurred where someone we engaged to help us find angels was offered […]

As you might have guessed by now, our server upgrade is complete. We are now using WordPress.com’s premium service and are thrilled to be their infrastructure.  They call it VIP hosting – we call it sleep at night. Big shout out to Barry and Chancey – the A-team of sys-magic for making it all work […]

There is a good deal of buzz in the tech-news world about a $3.9 million investment that Google has made in a company called 23andMe, a startup in hiring mode with dreams of “helping consumers understand and browse their genome”.

$3.9 million? What’s the big deal about a company that Google is investing less than 1/750th […]

Is Amp’d Mobile gearing up for a change of the guard? Valleywag prints a rumor that the CEO and founder of the high-spending youth-oriented MVNO, Peter Adderton, has left the company. We heard this rumor a few weeks ago and asked Amp’d‘s PR team directly if Adderton had left the company. At that time (May […]