Startup News     |     Silicon Valley Blog     |     Startup Podcasts     
   

Google

EveryScape Takes 3D Mapping Indoors

EveryScape promises to take us way beyond (actually, way inside) what Google Maps and all other fancy mapping ways out there. It promises to take us indoors in cities into various landmarks and buildings, more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

Google comming to a Gas Pump Near You

Google Maps are already winging their way across the skies courtesy of a partnership with jetBlue. Now Google and gas pump maker Gilbarco Veeder-Root have announced a partnership that will bring Google more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Search  |  

Another Googler Moves On

Dominic Preuss, who’d been at Google for over three years running its local ad business, has moved on to the startup Meetup. With Meetup’s current sponsor program, ads are done in an ad hoc manner more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Advertising  |  

NetSuite Plans Google-Style Auction IPO

Larry Ellison is about to get richer. Much richer. NetSuite expects the IPO to total 6.2 million shares of common stock to be priced between $13 and $16 each. The company also expects to raise about more...
Discuss  |  Topic: IPO  |  

Feedheads Reaches 10,000 Active Facebook Users

Feedheads, the Facebook application that adds Google Reader shared items to your profile, and displays the most shared items and feeds in a way Google still hasn't figured out how to duplicate, is growing more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

Ex-Googlers Launch Howcast - YouTube for Instructional Video

Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman — who worked with Google on YouTube and Google Video have left to create their own YouTube of Instructional Video. They have $8 million series A financing, more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Internet Video  |  

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...
Discuss  |  Topic: Gadgets and Tools  |  

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...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

LinkedIn Opens Applications Platform with Google, Amazon

Applications from Google, Amazon, Six Apart, WordPress, Box.net, Huddle, SlideShare and TripIt, are now usable on LinkedIn. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Networking  |