Monster.com's Jeff Taylor Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead


The founder of the most popular job site on the planet Monster.com, Jeff Taylor is still working hard to put come up with his next big idea. He is coming up with a social networking site for the dead. more...
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Mapping the Startups in Portland


Sam Churchill provides an insight into the promising startups in the Portland area: Platial, Knitmap, SocialMap, Mapdango, WeoGeo, TwitterLocal and a short sweet summary of what each one does. Thus, the more...
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SugarSync Offers A Good Method for Replicating Files


A Silicon Valley company called Sharpcast is offering something really useful and badly needed, inspite of so many others offering something on the same lines. It offers a great method for syncing all more...
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Startup American Defense Systems gets $15 Million


American Defense Systems, which offers advanced solutions in the design, fabrication and installation of transparent and opaque armor, security doors, windows and curtain wall systems, has secured funding more...
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Analysis of How Yahoo! buying IndexTools changes Web Analytics


Eric T. Peterson, who has been working in web analytics for over ten years provides his analysis of the Yahoo shopping; Yahoo bought IndexTools to boost its Web Analytics kitty and shore up against the more...
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Richrelevance gets another round of funding


Richrelevance is a San Francisco based recommendation search engine that is aiming to get your attention. The latest round of funding of $4.2 Million was provided by Greylock Partners and Tugboat Ventures. more...
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How to Launch a Startup easily


In order to help fledgling startups to launch more easily Google launched App Engine, which lets you write code for a web application, then Google takes care of the scaling/failover/logistics-type issues. more...
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15 Algae Startups Bringing Fuel from Pond Scum


Katie Fehrenbacher bring this story of 15 algae based biofuel startups that may not be hogging the headlines. These include: Solazyme, GreenFuel Technologies, Blue Marble Energy, Inventure Chemical, Solena, more...
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