Fortune magazine recently ran a feature on PayPal alumni that includes folks like Slide CEO & Founder Max Levchin, the YouTube boys and David Sacks of Geni.
The star of the story, however is Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal and now a hedge fund investor non-pariel, who manages billions of dollars and is […]
Stephanie Mehta of Fortune Magazine put some tough questions (from Fortune readers) to Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast Corp. (CMCSA). He gave refreshingly honest answers for a CEO. His stock is out of favor with Wall Street, but it is good to know that the most powerful man in cable (I didn’t say most liked […]
Getty Images (GYI) has been the staple provider of images to editorial and advertising professionals for as long as most of us can remember. Despite many challengers, the Seattle-based company has remained a dominant player in the images business, mostly on the strength of its huge archives.
Now New York-based startup PhotoShelter wants to give Getty […]
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d read outside of a cyberpunk novel: “The world’s largest Communist government is co-developing a 40-square-mile business and recreation complex entirely devoted to the metaverse.”
But as it turns out, this is more or less the case. Recently unveiled under the unassuming moniker of the China Recreation District […]
2007 was supposed to be the Year of the Widget, according to Newsweek, and Jon Swartz of USA Today apparently agrees that the promise has been fulfilled. He says:
[Widgets] are all the rage on the Web. Marketers are thinking of ways to use them to sell ads, and venture capitalists are mulling investments in the […]
Google has unveiled an initiative to develop electricity from clean sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal. In true geek fashion, they’re calling it “RE less than C” or “Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal.” Co-founder Larry Page said the initiative would spend “tens of millions of dollars on R&D,” and ultimately […]
Sure small businesses benefit greatly from the proliferation of Web 2.0 offerings like Zoho’s online office suite and Mozy’s backup solutions. But software as a service (SaaS) provider 19Marketplace hopes that many small business owners will instead prefer one-stop shopping for hosted brand-name applications. In partnership with SaaS infrastructure provider Jamcracker, 19Marketplace today unveils Workplace2go, […]
The about-face taken by Verizon Wireless today when it said it will open up its network and platform is, at first blush, a good thing for consumers and developers. But I just got off the company’s conference call, and there are certain details that have left me with eyebrows raised. Here is my quick […]
