In this week’s show we explain popular VC jargon in layman’s terms and sit down with Saul Klein of Index Ventures and Seedcamp.com, to talk about networking essentials for early European start-ups and the cultural differences between US and UK start-ups. I asked Klein for insight […] Read more »
Sprint Nextel (S) and Clearwire (CLWR), two companies that are betting the farm on building out WiMAX networks, are getting no love from Wall Street analysts. Sprint just reported a disastrous quarter, and the continuing decline in revenues and subscribers might result in lower spending on […] Read more »
[qi:91] A lot of folks had been grumbling about getting hit by huge data charges when traveling overseas with their iPhones. Now AT&T (T) is introducing a new international plan that gives iPhone users 50 MB of data per month to browse the web, check e-mail […] Read more »
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After a long week of hectic travels, it is good to finally be back in mildly chilly San Francisco. The back hurts from a long flight back from Washington D.C., but the cool air managed to put a little smile on my face. I have no […] Read more »
[qi:014] The world eagerly awaits the Facebook’s social advertising platform, likely to be announced on November 6th at the Ad:Tech conference in New York. The new advertising innovation is said to be a rival to Google’s (GOOG) AdSense, prompting some to label the opportunity big enough […] Read more »
[qi:036] A group of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have made the world’s smallest FM radio, crafted out of a single carbon nanotube that is about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a single human hair. In the nanotube radio, a single carbon nanotube works […] Read more »
The Wall Street Journal has been reporting on Google’s mobile phone efforts and how it is beginning to draw some interest from carriers, especially in the United States. Sprint (S) and Verizon (VZ) are in talks with Google (GOOG), according to the Journal, and an announcement […] Read more »
Google’s (GOOG) much awaited answer to Facebook ecosystem is finally coming to light. The existence of this Google platform was first reported by TechCrunch and is going to become official tomorrow. Google will announce its new social networking initiative, Open Social on Thursday. Joining Google and […] Read more »
[qi:020] The hybrid P2P-CDN business model is becoming increasingly popular with content distributors, largely due to rapid growth in the demand for online video. Even pure-play P2P companies like Pando have started dabbling with P2P CDNs. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) have become a highly competitive market, […] Read more »
[qi:006] Meebo, the Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that popularized web-based instant messaging, is celebrating its second anniversary today. The three-person company we first wrote about in September 2005 is growing up literally and figuratively. The company is expanding beyond its instant messaging roots and is now […] Read more »
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Just a short programming alert. I am on an East Coast trip and as a result posting times will be a tad erratic. The email backlog is bound to increase, but please bear with the slow turnaround times. I am in New York for Rafat Ali’s […] Read more »
This morning, between fielding phone calls, answering emails and writing blog posts, I have been watching TV, a lot of TV…on Hulu, the new online video portal backed by NBC (GE), News Corp. (NWS) and $100 million in funding from Providence Equity Partners. Before I go […] Read more »
[qi:076] Covad to be acquired by Providence Equity Platinum Equity Partners for $1.02 a share in cash, a 59 percent premium to its closing price on Friday. Covad is one of the handful of independent broadband service providers to have survived the telecom bust. Providence, I […] Read more »
[qi:045] Under siege from Wall Street investors, and facing competition from other potential wireless networks (700 MHz), Sprint Nextel (S) has a new-found appreciation for the need for openness. And its executives are taking every opportunity to extoll the virtues of open networks, especially xOHM. Rick […] Read more »
Some fun facts from CTIA’s mid-year 2007 survey results (Download PDF): * At the end of first half of 2007, there were 243.4 million subscribers or about 10.4M net new additions. UBS Research estimates that number works out to about 80% penetration of the U.S. population, […] Read more »
[qi:_newteevee] The long-awaited and much-derided NBC (GE) and News Corp (NWS) joint venture Hulu will make a somewhat public debut this week, opening up a private beta tonight of its web video service and initiating distribution of its movies, TV shows, and mashups on AOL (TWX), […] Read more »
[qi:009] Amanda Mooney has a great idea: Google (GOOG) should build “capability to import my Outlook, Ziggs, LinkedIn and Plaxo contacts into my Reader account and have Google instantly subscribe to news and blog feeds related to my people.” In other words, they can implement some […] Read more »
[qi:012] Folks keep an eye out on K2 Network, Irvine, Calif.-based start-up that is a distributor of casual games and MMOs. The company has raised $20 million or so, with just over $16 million in Series B funding from Intel Capital, Greycroft Partners, Khosla Ventures and […] Read more »
[qi:032] This week we speak with “big man” Richard Moross, founder and CEO of Moo.com. Learn how moo.com was conceived and get an inside scoop on an untapped industry. Check out customer moo cards via flickr. Download episode #14 in Quicktime, Windows Media or Xvid formats. Read more »
Cisco Systems (CSCO) CEO John Chambers is headed to India and in an email interview with Livemint.com he outlined the progress made by Cisco in India: * Cisco sales in India are over $1 billion. Chambers is bullish about prospects of wireless in India. (It might […] Read more »
Mobile search, despite the presence of giants such as Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) and AOL (TWX), is wide open. Any startup has as good a chance as any of the the big boys, just as long as they have cutting-edge technology and enough business […] Read more »
[qi:051] Recently, a brouhaha has broken out over Comcast (CMCSA), the second-largest U.S. broadband provider, and its policies regarding the management of peer-to-peer traffic. The company contests that it doesn’t block traffic to P2P services, web sites and other applications, but rather that it tries to […] Read more »
[qi:069] Ethernet’s growing importance as part of the carrier networks, especially in newer telecom economies such as India and China, is one of the main reasons why Nokia Siemens Networks is acquiring privately held Atrica, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based equipment maker. The terms of the deal […] Read more »
Microsoft (MSFT) has invested $240 million in Facebook at a valuation of $15 billion and gets the rights to sell third-party ads on the Facebook network. That’s about 2 percent stake. Not as crazy as the $900 million that MySpace (NWS) pried out of Google (GOOG), […] Read more »
[qi:90] Now that eBay (EBAY) has admitted that it overpaid for Skype, it is time for the company to start trying to recover some of its investment. The best way for them to do that is by milking the Skype brand — like with the so-called […] Read more »
I am currently reading “Reality Show,” a new book by The Washington Post columnist and TV commentator, Howard Kurtz. The book is about Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, the evening news show anchors, their gigantic (and sometimes creaky) news machine and of course, their […] Read more »
[qi:053] James Surowiecki, reknown author, speaker and the financial correspondent for The New Yorker, in a recent article explains why no one in the US is feeling the pinch by the sharp decline in the dollar, unless of course they are off on an European shopping […] Read more »
[qi:026] The slow and steady exodus of executives from Google (GOOG) has been in progress for a while now. Today, two senior members of the corporate development team left Googleplex for good, to start a new venture fund, Merus Capital. Salman Ullah, Google’s vice president of […] Read more »
[qi:83] Location-based services (LBS) are one of our favorite topics here at GigaOM. We have covered the business extensively, including the recent mega-billion-dollar acquisitions made by Nokia (NOK) and Tom Tom. In other deals, Google (GOOG) bought Jaiku and last week, Platial acquired Frappr. All of […] Read more »
Pair-bonding for faster DSL, 3G wireless, and a beefier backbone using OC-768 (40 gigabits per second) technology are some of the things in the immediate future for AT&T (T), the San Antonio, Texas-based phone company, according to CEO Randall Stephenson, who was in San Francisco last […] Read more »
After being skeptical of WiMAX for quite sometime, Cisco Systems (CSCO) is changing its tune, and has decided to play the WiMAX game. It is doing so by buying Navini Networks for a whopping $330 million in cash and stock. It was apparently one of the […] Read more »
[qi:91] iPhoneSlide.com is a simple little web tool that solves the problem of instantly uploading iPhone photos to one (or more) of your favorite web services – Facebook, WordPress, Flickr, Blogger, or Typepad – in one pass via email. Take a photo and email it with […] Read more »
[qi:020] First it was music, then web video, and now it is time for MySpace to turn the attention of its 100-million plus members to casual games. The company has signed a deal with Oberon Media, and two companies will create a new casual gaming channel […] Read more »
[qi:86] It could pass as a cute little gesture, but somehow it smacks of desperation. The beleaguered VoIP service provider, Vonage (VG) has been in a ton of trouble, getting sued left, right and center by any telco with a VoIP-related patents. The legal worries are […] Read more »
[qi:032] It is becoming increasingly obvious: Big media companies (content owners) are lining up against YouTube & Google (GOOG), and are coming up with their own strategies for online video. Today, NBC (GE) confirmed to NewTeeVee that it pulled its content off YouTube in a shift […] Read more »
[qi:057] With digital gizmos beginning to clutter our homes, never before has there been such a need for speed inside our respective four walls. While we depend on broadband to grab content off the Internet, the heavy lifting really happens inside and as such, the demands […] Read more »
[qi:066] Dave Winer, whom I have dubbed “The Constant Tinkerer,” has come up with yet another way to consume information in a simple and easily navigable manner. Well known for his work on RSS and OPML, he is now shifting his attention to finding new ways […] Read more »
[qi:053] Despite the seasonal summer slowdown, the venture capital community maintained its furious investing pace in the third quarter, investing $7.1 billion, down just slightly from $7.2 billion in the second quarter. Here are some of the highlights from the data released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the […] Read more »
With CTIA 2007 all set to rock San Francisco, we thought it was time to point to Mobile Rules, a contest that encourages wireless innovation, especially when it comes to mobile applications. This is the second annual Mobile Rules! Business Plan Competition (formerly called Web2Mobile.) This […] Read more »
Its like the Groundhog Day for Vonage (VG), the beleaguered VoIP services company. After being separately sued by Verizon (VZ) and Sprint (S), and losing its cases over patent infringements, the Holmdel, NJ-based company is now facing similar charges from AT&T (T). Vonage was ordered to […] Read more »
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