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Still no MuniFi: Silicon Valley, San Francisco

Katie Fehrenbacher, Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 9:15 AM PT Comments (4)

Some city-wide Wi-Fi networks are being launched and few residents are using them. And then there are the planned muniFi networks that are stuck in the purgatory of logistics and bureacracy — perpetually ‘in the works’ but with missed deadlines and unsure futures.
The Palo Alto Daily News says the plan to build a Wi-Fi network [...]

Web Do-Gooders Win Cash

Katie Fehrenbacher, Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 10:47 PM PT Comments (1)

We almost skipped the NetSquared convention this week, given the 21 web-based projects presenting are all not-for profit organizations. But hey, GigaTeam needs to feel all warm and fuzzy sometimes too.
So we spent a few hours watching pitches from social organizations that used the conference to swap resources, look for funding, and compare notes on [...]

Big Job Cuts at Big Tech Companies

Katie Fehrenbacher, Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 4:05 PM PT Comments (10)

There might be a lot of money flowing in Silicon Valley right now — four startups announced that they’ve been acquired just today. But for some of the big tech companies, and their employees, times aren’t so good.
Motorola said today its going to cut another 4,000 workers, in addition to the 3,500 the company announced [...]

Acquisition Wednesday: Fox Interactive’s Peter Levinsohn Talks

Katie Fehrenbacher, Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 8:36 AM PT Comments (8)

It’s a good morning to be a social media web startup. First Fox Interactive Media sends out a release officially announcing it’s buying both photo sharing site Photobucket and slide show widget creator Flektor. Then CBS announces that it’s bought music social network Last.fm for $280 million.
Whoa, media sharing madness. While FIM didn’t disclose [...]

Google Maps Goes Streetside

Katie Fehrenbacher, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 9:28 AM PT Comments (22)

Update: Google launched a street view mapping feature for several cities this morning at the Where 2.0 conference, and GigaTeam is pretty excited about checking out the views around our own San Francisco digs. We just chatted with John Hanke, Google’s Director of Google Earth and Google Maps, after his presentation at the conference and [...]

What you Amp’d about?

Katie Fehrenbacher, Friday, May 25, 2007 at 2:37 PM PT Comments (3)

Apparently Peter Adderton, Amp’d CEO hasn’t left the building… for now. Valleywag reported that the mobile maverick was out, a rumor we had heard a few weeks ago, but it was denied by the company.
Adderton tells PE Hub that he is still the big cheese. Regardless of his status it seems the company is [...]

What’s up at Amp’d Mobile?

Katie Fehrenbacher, Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 5:34 PM PT Comments (2)

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 [...]

The Carrier, the Phone Maker & the Customer

Katie Fehrenbacher, Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 10:30 AM PT Comments (7)

Who owns the loyalty of the wireless customer, the carrier or the handset maker? As Vodafone launches branded handsets, handset makers open stores, and the iPhone changes the game, increasingly the two sides that together control the mobile industry, are starting to push at the edges of their integral and formerly defined relationships.
The WSJ [...]

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