Tesla’s IPO was all about expectations and innovations from a Silicon Valley startup that fancies itself a technology developer on the scale of Apple or Google. GM’s IPO will be about overcoming its recently-tumultous and century-old past, and about delivering as a manufacturing company. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
The rise of check-in-based applications like Foursquare (and others like it) can essentially bring a cost-per-action business model to the real world, perhaps either supplanting or complementing traditional forms of advertising. What are the possible ways check-in apps can replace traditional local advertising? Read More »
Should Hewlett-Packard’s board consider entrepreneur-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen as a candidate for interim HP chief executive in order to burnish company’s reputation and bring back the culture of innovation? Given his deep links and interest in tomorrow’s technologies, it is not such a preposterous idea. Read More »
Hulu, which has rapidly grown to be the top destination for broadcast shows online, is readying itself to go public in an offering that could value the company at $2 billion. But to make it independently, it’s going to need the support of its content partners. Read More »
Meeting scheduling tool Tungle today announced an update to the service that includes integration with Facebook Events, TripIt and Plancast. Users will be able to see events from all three sources on their Tungle.me calendars in order to share them with others. Read More »
ALTe, a startup founded by former Tesla Motors executives and managers, takes the goal of converting vehicle fleets to run on electricity literally. The company aims to take used models and give them new guts to run as extended range electric vehicles. Read More »
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla still remains a dominant force in shaping the next-generation of biofuel innovation and could make some of his first returns as a biofuel baron this year. Albeit, likely small returns. Read More »
Smooth-Stone, an Austin, Texas, based company building servers using the chips found inside cell phones, has raised a $48 million initial round of funding from ARM, Advanced Technology Investment Company, Battery Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Texas Instruments. Read More »
Aydin Senkut, a well known angel investor and ex-Googler has closed a new $40 million fund for his Palo Alto, Calif.-based four-year-old investment firm, Felicis Ventures. The fund will invest in very stage startups including those focused on consumer Internet and mobile sectors. Read More »
A rift has developed between the web and enterprise IT. Changes in the source of IT innovation and enterprise purchasing habits mean a business plan focused on selling to Google and Facebook is just as likely to fail as one aimed at JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. Read More »
Today’s recommended reading links include a fascinating look at a ghost town in the California desert, an analysis of why more free parking would be bad for cities, an inspiring story about how open data helped Alzheimer’s research and a graveyard for computers in Ghana. Read More »
Some argue that storage vendors are better off focusing their sales and marketing efforts on internal clouds rather than on public clouds. Essentially, the argument goes, vendors are feeding delivery model that ultimately hopes to steal their sales. This concern applies equally to server vendors, and… Read More »
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