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Among those debating the value of Groupon as it filed for its hotly-awaited initial public offering were two startup entrepreneurs — 37signals partner David Heinemeier Hansson, who argued it is doomed to fail, and SimpleGeo founder Joe Stump, who looked on the bright side. Read More »

Stock traders and hedge funds can’t predict the future yet, but they are doing their best to come as close as possible, and that involves crunching every bit of data they can get their hands on — up to and including that tweet you just posted. Read More »

 
 

The major stock markets’ massive plunge on Thursday rattled investors, obliterating almost a trillion dollars in value at one point. But did it get the attention of the Silicon Valley bulls waiting for their favorite startups to IPO? Or will they dismiss it as a glitch? Read More »

While the recession had many predicting the IPO market would be largely non-existent in 2009, several new tech stocks listed on public markets during April and now in May. The companies squeaking out of the IPO queue, however, are mature, profitable and cash-rich. Their proceeds … Read More »

Should Google Be Added to the Dow?

A provocative story from Reuters Monday ruminated on which companies are likely to replace Citigroup and General Motors in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Its conclusion: Google and Cisco are the most likely contenders, with Apple and Visa as less likely candidates. It’s a safe bet … Read More »

Why the Tech Crash May Have Been a Good Thing

As we continue to slide into a dire economic correction, a silver lining is starting to emerge around the dot-com crash. By pushing a lot of froth out of the system several years ago, it has spared us from a true “Perfect Storm” of an economic … Read More »

How Wall Street Can Hurt Silicon Valley

After Monday, the belief that Silicon Valley is going to remain immune from the Wall Street fallout is gone. While some tech companies had been saying they weren’t worried that the credit crunch would hurt them, I don’t believe them. Read More »

Microsoft Chants Open, Interoperability Mantra

Microsoft is changing the way it does business and is opening up, according to a long elaborate press release the company issued this morning. I am reading through it and will try and make sense of it all. At first blush looks like the leopard … Read More »

Are the Markets Getting Too Heavy for Google to Lift?

Ever since Google’s stock-withering earnings report, I’ve had the Flaming Lips’ “Waiting for a Superman” stuck in my head. Things are indeed getting heavy, and everyone was waiting for Google to lift the sun into the sky. That didn’t happen, and Google’s stock was … Read More »

4 Reasons to Brace for a Turbulent Earnings Season

Stock markets around the world are tumbling, with the Dow staying firmly in negative territory even in the face of an emergency interest-rate cut. And ready or not, the parade of technology earnings is on its way as well. A handful of tech bellwethers have already … Read More »

Year-End Folly: Pin the Tail on the Stocks

I’ve taken seven of the more interesting stocks of 2007 — all stocks that inspired a good deal of passionate discussion and, for the most part, a good deal of capital gains — and ranked them according to how I think they’ll perform in 2008. Take … Read More »

The Sound of One Palm Flopping

The good news for Palm is that it met its second-quarter numbers Tuesday afternoon. OK, it met the estimates it made only a couple of weeks ago, which were substantially lower than its earlier guidance. That revision sent Palm’s stock tumbling 19 percent in less … Read More »

More Must Reads

Just how bad is the credit crunch going to get? Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne recently offered up his take, and it might be worth paying attention to. Read More »

I am one of two founders in a startup. Both of us come from a creative background – but even though *we are artists,* we are both firmly grounded in and have a good grasp of technology and business. Still, one of the core qualities of … Read More »

After spending $680 million to scoop-up Right Media, Yahoo today announced a deal with Comcast to sell display and video advertising on Comcast’s web sites, which get a total of 2.5 billion page views a month. The deal also covers planned Fancast website. … Read More »

One observation about this whole Web 2.0 thing – all the smart entrepreneurs are incredibly young. I just thought it would be fun to give them a little bit of a history lesson and introduce them to names, ideas, and things from the recent past – … Read More »

There was time, like a year ago, when CES was all about cool gadgets. Not any more – take this latest gizmo from Sony Japan. Its a hybrid mouse and a voip phone. Aka Mouse Talk. Plug-into the USB port of any Windows PC (not … Read More »

As Jeff says, enough of this Web 2.0 stuff. I am going back to the roots. You will see what I mean. Read More »

Frost & Sullivan says that the North American VoIP residential revenues will hit $4.07 billion by 2010, up 1300% from 2004 sales of $295.1 million. Do some math here, you can very quickly find out that the numbers paint a pretty bleak picture for … Read More »

So for one day I leave the calculator in the bag, and try to be a nice guy … not forever, but just for one day. And guess what happens. I get spanked! Aswath Rao, does what I should have in the first place, and … Read More »

Networking Pipeline: VoIP Can Save Enterprises From $9,600 To $28,000 Per Site. Survey also finds that ShoreTel and Nortel offer the lowest start-up costs, while Avaya and Cisco prices were the highest. Read More »

Deloitte has conducted a survey of 131 businesses from the Global 2000 companies and got their views on VoIP. The key findings show that by 2006, over two-thirds of all Global 2,000 companies will have started deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to the desktop. … Read More »

Crain’s New York Business is reporting that EarthLink will soon start selling its service over Con Ed’s power lines in Manhattan in the next several months, following an FCC vote last week to set new ground rules for commercial deployment of the service. The company … Read More »

This is the kind of day most start-ups wait for. Flarion has just learned that that Siemens will build wireless equipment based on its Flash-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology, and will market it to the new and emerging telecom markets like those in Eastern … Read More »

Forbes has a fascinating look at NTT DoCoMo and the changes inside the company, and its decision to embrace open standards. The story is about Kei-Ichi Enoki, an executive vice president at the company and how he is pushing I-Mode into new markets. “Consumers … Read More »

First is said no way, today it says maybe. Sprint is going to test and experiment with Flarion’s 4g wireless technology, according to this report. Speaking at a Lehman Brothers’ conference, Sprint Chief Operating Officer Len Lauer said that his company will be looking at … Read More »

Linksys, now a division of Cisco has recently been touting its deal with Comcast as a big win. Well, looks like there are some serious problems with this 802.11g/Modem gateway combo, according to some really smart folks. Now to others this might seem a little … Read More »

SBC is finally flexing its muscles in the UNE-P side of things, The company and clueless Washington have once again proved that with enough money, anything is for sale. In case you were wondering about my rant, I was responding to this news that SBC has … Read More »

Looks like Texas Instruments is becoming the big winner of this trend towards more powerful feature packed phones. Healthy demand from the phone makers is helping TI boost its revenues and sales, as per its mid-quarter update on March 8, 2004. The company narrowed its revenue … Read More »

Debating Apple’s future is like chattering about Bennifer! Pointless and needless. But when Barbara Walters asks J-Lo, what next, it is worth paying attention to. Similarly, when Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge decides to weigh in on the subject, one pays attention. WK chatted with … Read More »

Arnold Kling notes in the Washington Times how the FCC is being guided into a pro-market stance by it’s chairman, Michael Powell. link via Telepocalypse While I am not a big fan of Arnold Kling (anyone associated with a certain blog collective is full of … Read More »

Wi-Fi is old news, and social networks are fully funded. So what’s next for Silicon Valley venture capitalists? How about Blogsphere? Expect a spate of announcements in coming months, and of course I have some juicy scoops here. Read on…. Silicon Valley venture capitalists believe in one … Read More »

The quarterly earnings data is in! A quick tabulation shows that the wireless industry is going through a mini-boom, and that just might be a harbinger of bad things to come. From Texas Instruments to RF Micro Devices to Nokia, to Cingular, AT&T … Read More »

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