The first DEMO convention of the year starts Tuesday night down in the So Cali desert, where 68 startups will try to get noticed by the 700 or so expected press, VCs, and industry execs. For every Skype or Ironport that have launched products at the show, there’s hundreds of Browsters or Filmloops that make [...] Continue »

Social bookmarking site Kaboodle is finally adding shopping comparison prices, among a bunch of upgrades for Tuesday. Price comparison will start with products in the Shopping.com API, but could be expanded to travel and healthcare, Kaboodle CEO Manish Chandra said in an interview Monday.
The company will also start offering multiple ways for users to display [...] Continue »

Rupert Murdoch had planned to spend $2 billion on Internet related acquisitions. With today’s $373 million acquisition of EasyNet, and $1.2 billion buying up properties like IGN and MySpace, he has already spent about $1.57 billion. So what’s next? Chances are that the next strike would be on a VoIP player. Informed sources say that [...] Continue »

First there was the Internet search, then the desktop search, and now it is time for what my Business 2.0 colleague Erick Schonfeld calls, “group search.” Following up on my little scooplet on Grouper-Ask Jeeves alliance, he talked to Grouper president Dave Samuel and got the confirmation.
> This is interesting because it would be one [...] Continue »

If you are fourth place search engine, behind industry behemoths like Google, Yahoo and MSN the big question is how do you grow your traffic. (Comscore Media Metrix says in July Ask Jeeves‘ had 6.1% share of the search market.) Ask Jeeves faces that dilemma. One way would be to think different, and look [...] Continue »

+ Sprint EVDO in Bay Area is partially working, perhaps beating out the good ole Verizon which is likely to power it up in the Bay Area in the third week of September 2005.
+ Mayor Gavin Newsom is going to shed light on San Francisco’s free wifi plans at a press conference tomorrow. You can [...] Continue »