Savvis, long a provider of co-location and dedicated hosting services, today unveiled a new cloud compute offering aimed at large corporations. Unlike Amazon, whose array of services are focused on the broader market, Savvis will start off with an on-demand computing service called Savvis… Read More »
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The battle over Yahoo’s search business as witnessed over the last few days seems both ridiculous and petty. And it takes the attention away from what is Yahoo’s true value: a media aggregation platform. Yahoo is the place a lot of people — some 400 million… Read More »
MySpace launched a social networking experience designed for the iPhone (available free at the App Store) today that will take advantage of the touch interface. As part of the launch, they sent out a fact sheet detailing some mobile stats that I found pretty… Read More »
Apple just reported its fiscal second-quarter 2008 earnings, and well, the declines from the fiscal first quarter (ended Dec. 29, 2007) are remarkably obvious. From a revenue perspective, the year-over-year comparisons are pretty solid, but in other categories the slowdown is rather stark. These results… Read More »
On Friday night TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Read/WriteWeb and GigaOM cosponsored the 2007 Crunchies awards in San Francisco. It was a great event, and in case you couldn’t attend, you can catch the video here. The line-up of finalists in categories like ‘best bootstrapped startup’, ‘Best use of… Read More »
We’ve followed the ups and downs at electric car company, Tesla Motors, over the last year. We got hyped like everyone as the startup’s celebrity line-up and fattening coffers was chronicled across the blogosphere. (It’s $140 million in funding with… Read More »
The much-hyped cleantech automaker Tesla Motors has hit some snags and will launch a public beta of its car next year. Maybe that’s why chairman Elon Musk wants his old job back. Tesla is also raising $40 million from existing investors to keep racing… Read More »
At each year’s end, Inc. magazine elects its “Entrepreneur of the Year.” Deal flow being what it was in 2007, we might have expected the honor this year to grace Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. But maybe he’s gotten too much “ink” already. Instead, the magazine’s… Read More »
The exodus of senior management from eBay’s Skype division continues. Ten days after co-founder Niklas Zennstrom decided to say sayonara to the P2P telephony company, Michael Jackson, one of its early employees and VP of operations, has left the building. I had wondered why… Read More »
It shouldn’t come as a surprise: Sean Parker, co-founder of Project Agape is launching a limited edition version of his activist tool on Facebook, the last start-up he was affiliated with as founding president. The new tool is called, Causes for Facebook, and is seamlessly… Read More »
Most of us in Silicon Valley dream of founding a company, but few of us will succeed. Statistics long-ago established that most businesses fail—and it is a tribute to entrepreneurs that this does not dissuade us. There are many well-known explanations for failure: market timing; product… Read More »
UK Broadband has started selling 8 megabits per second DSL broadband to its customers for about $55 a month. That’s cheaper than what speakeasy charges for its 6 MBPS connections. Read More »
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