Mobile Search, wireless, deals Gregory T. Huang wrote: And the wireless hits keep coming… Seattle mobile-search startup Medio Systems is moving towards a deal with Google and Verizon Communications to manage an all-in-one search service provided by the two giants, according to the Wall Street Journal. Medio already handles searches [...]
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August 19th, 2008 |
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VentureBeat yesterday reported on the new social network of John Doerr’s daughter Mary. Another Kleiner Perkins’ offspring has even bigger ambitions. Frank Caufield Jr., son of KPCB cofounder Frank Caufield Sr., is raising $100 million for the second venture capital fund-of-funds of his six-year-old firm, Darwin Ventures. The San Francisco-based [...]
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July 29th, 2008 |
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Richard Wolpert and Mike Maples are seed-stage investors and friends who speak at least once a month. But the two disagree about whether the consumer Internet has grown too bubbilicious. Maples thinks it has, as he told me last week; Wolpert, managing director of the seed-stage Mail Room Fund - [...]
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July 27th, 2008 |
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Is India finally ready to produce some world-shaking Web companies? It certainly has the raw talent. And increasingly it has the capital. Accel is the latest VC fund to focus on the sub-continent. It absorbed Indian VC firm Erasmic, and is relaunching it as the Accel India Venture Fund. One [...]
According to sources, Facebook is moving to eliminate its observer status slot from its board. That position is currently held by Greylock Partners David Sze. The reasons might be as simple as the fact that as Facebook grows, it needs a more formal board process, especially as it prepares for [...]
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July 25th, 2008 |
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If you want to know where the mobile Web is going, join us here at TechCrunch at 3PM PT for the live video stream of our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable The mobile Web is finally here and developers have to choose what platform they want to bet on. Do they [...]
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July 24th, 2008 |
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If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you'll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a group of independent gaming startups have been the leaders in publishing games within social networks. Co-founders of [...]
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July 17th, 2008 |
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Today, we are releasing the last 100 tickets to a roundtable debate I am hosting: Mobile Web Wars: Which Platform Will Win? To register for a ticket, sign up now. Our last release of tickets sold out in 5 minutes. The Roundtable will be a freewheeling discussion about whether the [...]
Truste, a non-profit trade association that certifies Web sites that meet basic privacy standards, is converting to a for-profit company and taking an investment from Accel Partners.[...]
The real estate market is still hot??? online. Trulia, a popular real estate search site, has raised a $15 million fourth round led by Deep Fork Capital LLC, along with past backers Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim & Co. The company has now raised a total of $33 [...]
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July 9th, 2008 |
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The mobile Web has been a long time coming. But it is finally within our grasp. Not a compromised mobile Web controlled by your cell phone carrier, but the full and complete Web in your pocket. It took the success of the iPhone and the promise of Google's Android mobile [...]
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July 3rd, 2008 |
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What you see above is not a video or a slide show, it is a Flowgram. If you click on it, you will be taken to a full-screen player with what appears to be a screencast with a voiceover. Except that you can control the pages by scrolling up and [...]
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June 30th, 2008 |
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Sam Gustin thinks Facebook's decision to add Marc Andreessen to its board is great and all, but he still wants to know how the company plans to, you know, make money.Late Monday, Facebook said that Andreessen, one of the original "Golden Geeks" of tech, will join its board of directors, [...]
SM: Glam was a pioneering startup. How did you assemble your management team? SA: Our seven key founders are all serial entrepreneurs and pioneers in Silicon Valley and Internet Technology. Fernando Ruarte, our CTO and VP of Engineering, built one of the first content management systems on the web. Raj [...]
SM: Glam was a pioneering startup. How did you assemble your management team? SA: Our key founders have a background in Silicon Valley technology. Fernando Ruarte, our CTO and VP of Engineering, built one of the first content management systems. Raj Narayan is the Chief Architect and holds a patent [...]
Brightcove is an online video publishing company that lets users—both established media networks and independent content makers—monetize their content through ad revenues. It was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who is now CEO. Brightcove offers content makers two distribution methods: content can either be placed on blogs and websites [...]
OH-Columbus/Zanesville, 6 - 10 years of Development experience with 5 years of Microsoft development and 3 years of Captiva Image Capture experience - Expert knowledge and hands on experience with Captiva Input Accel and Cap[...]
