Archive for April, 2008

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IBM’s Plan to Slash Its Massive Power Needs

Edit Staff, Friday, April 25, 2008 at 2:14 PM PT Comments (1)

IBM, the granddaddy of computing, uses 5 billion kilowatt hours to power its data center operations each year. But over the next three years, Big Blue is attempting to double its compute capability without budging the needle on its power consumption. And while it’s already well on its way in the $1 billion effort, [...]

Facebook’s Insatiable Hunger for Hardware

Om Malik, Friday, April 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM PT Comments (35)

Updated: Facebook these days is doing everything in its power to imitate Google, recruiting the search giant’s sales people, poaching its senior executives and — most importantly — using infrastructure as a competitive advantage. Like Google, Facebook has figured out that the right web infrastructure is the difference between user delight and dismay. And like [...]

AT&T Wi-Fi Finally Hits Starbucks (in San Antonio)

Stacey Higginbotham, Friday, April 25, 2008 at 8:29 AM PT Comments (10)

For those of you jonesing for AT&T Wi-Fi and a highly caffeinated cup of Starbucks java, your wait is finally over — unless you live outside of San Antonio. A little more than a month after AT&T announced it was replacing T-Mobile as the branded Wi-Fi provider in local Starbucks, the denizens of AT&T’s hometown [...]

RIP Microprocessor Startups

Stacey Higginbotham, Friday, April 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM PT Comments (4)

I’ve been talking about the enormous amount of cash it takes to create any kind of chip company and expressing doubts about the number of startups we will see getting financial backing to create truly innovative ideas in semiconductors. Analyst Linley Gwennap apparently feels the same way, because he looked at the sale of P.A. [...]

Cisco Out To Crush Netgear?

Om Malik, Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:37 AM PT Comments (2)

Looks like Cisco Systems (CSCO) is dead serious about turning the screws on the competitors of its Linksys line of products. Today, Netgear (NTGR) announced its first-quarter 2008 financial results and they were, to put it mildly, terrible. Sure, revenues were up 14 percent on a year-over-year basis, but operating income, net income and earnings [...]

HubPages: 7 Things We Did to Beat Squidoo (Case of “less is more”)

Jason Menayan, Friday, April 25, 2008 at 12:02 AM PT Comments (8)

HubPages is an online publishing ecosystem where authors submit useful, informative articles on topics they know and love, and then earn royalties for their contributions through Google AdSense, eBay Partner Network or Amazon Associates.

Our site grew quickly after we launched in August 2006, as word spread that writers could (could for once) earn […]

Exclusive: U.S. Online Video Startups Raised $461M in 2007

Edit Staff, Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 9:01 PM PT Comments (3)

Profits may not have arrived for online video, but venture capitalists are still happy to pick up the bill. More and more U.S.-based, venture-backed online video companies are attracting more and more financing each year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Some $460.5 million was invested in such startups in 2007, up from $266.9 million […]

Skype Boys Raising a Massive New Fund

Om Malik, Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM PT Comments (17)

Skype co-founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis along with ex-Skyper Geoffrey Prentice are raising a new fund for their investment vehicle, Atomico. The plan is to raise a total of 300 million euros ($450 million), 100 million euros of which is coming from Zennstrom, Friss & Co. (which makes raising the whole amount relatively easy.) […]

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