There has been much debate lately about where Yahoo has gone wrong and what it needs to do to right itself. Salim Ismail, formerly of Yahoo’s in-house incubator Brickhouse, believes that the company’s problems lie in its very structure. Read More »
Archive for September 2011
Amazon is allegedly planning to launch a Netflix-style subscription service for books. While this idea is bound to get some criticism from book lovers — not to mention book publishers — it seems like a natural step in the ongoing evolution of the book. Read More »
Tremor Video raised another $37 million in venture funding, bringing total funding to $145 million. It plans to use to acquire some smaller competitors, as CEO Bill Day expects a round of consolidation to hit the online video advertising market. Read More »
In a Silicon Valley technology landscape where young hotshots tend to make their marks with innovative new startups, Farah Giga is different. After nine years in various mangement positions at Hitachi Data Systems and HP, Giga, now 27, has joined Valhalla Partners as a principal. Read More »
Gowalla, like many other check-in services, has had trouble keeping pace with Foursquare. But the location startup is relaunching its service with an eye toward becoming more of a city travel guide, downplaying the role of check-ins in favor of discovery, travel and storytelling. Read More »
New sales data from the NPD Group, as shared by Piper Jaffray, shows that Apple’s Mac sales are surging thanks to new models introduced in July. The other side of the coin is that iPod sales are in decline, but that’s nothing Apple isn’t expecting. Read More »
Does the Chinese government want to be a cleantech VC? That seems to be the case as the government announced a plan to invest directly or through venture capital funds in startups that are developing technologies including alternative energy and cars. Read More »
Dolphin HD for the iPad, like its iPhone counterpart released earlier this month, is free and brings a number of features not available in mobile Safari. But will users embrace an alternative that can never be the default, no matter how well conceived? Read More »
Most of us have done some online shopping while watching a game. But what about watching online sports while shopping? A food market chain in London is testing out that concept by combining a shopping cart, an iPad and a streaming sports app. Read More »
Finland’s chilly weather might be depressing, but it’s the major reason for why the country is the hot new locale for green data centers. Following Google’s construction of its mega, green data center in Finland, other web firms are following suit, including potentially Facebook. Read More »
Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger says that while Amazon has revolutionized the traditional book industry with the Kindle, digital storytelling still isn’t really social — which is why his firm has led a $3.5M Series A financing round for Toronto-based social-reading startup Wattpad. Read More »
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