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An Outsider’s Flawed View Of Silicon Valley

When Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman wrote a blog post a couple of days ago comparing Silicon Valley unfavorably to the Seattle tech scene, it raised some attention. Now, our own Michael Arrington takes on the more...
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As Amazon's S3 Storage Chokes, Startups Sputter

If you had problems with parts of Twitter and Tumblr -- graphics, for example, then blame it on a massive outage of the Amazon's S3 services which provides the managed hosting services for a ton of startups. more...
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Startup Montalvo to challenge Intel

Boasting of luminaries like Vinod Dham, Matt Perry, Peter Song, Greg Favor and Mike Yamamura, Montalvo Systems which has raised $73 Million in funding so far but has not yet made a chip, is taking on the more...
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Why Spore Will Be Really Big

Attempting to make the PC game really interesting and operating out of its Emeryville residence, Spore the new one on the gaming block is really something. So says Wired's Chris Kohler who checked out more...
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Zimbra's latest version does not need a browser

Matt Asay waxes eloquent on the new AJAX-style no browser offering from Zimbra and says that it offers everything that Microsoft Outlook could never dream up of providing. And, hey cheerup, it also provides more...
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How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million

Loïc Le Meur tells you the total insider story of how he raised $6 Million from a list of individuals (this actually reads like the Who's Who of the social networking, blogging, podcasting space), how more...
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Source Says: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened”

Michael Arrington follows up his previous story on Bebo. He says that Bebo, which is the second largest social network in the UK behind Facebook, either signed a deal, or is sending out false messages more...
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Sun Snaps Russian-Developed Desktop Virtualization VirtualBox

German headquartered, Innotek, the makers of VirtualBox which runs on various operating systems Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and OpenSolaris is being accquired by Sun Microsystems. Since its release in January more...
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Rupert Murdoch's New Startup Incubator

Call it Rupert Murdoch's farm, where MySpace plans to announce as soon as Feb. 13 that it has formed a business incubator called SlingShot Labs to spawn Internet startups for News Corp.'s growing empire more...
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An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

My first experience with VCs was as an engineer starting a microprocessor-design company; VCs were the gods of money. The other founders and I told the VCs what we thought we could do and how long it would more...
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