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Facebook Beacons - say goodbye to Privacy

While it seems to be a clever idea, a quick review reveals that Beacon might turn out to be a privacy hairball for the company. Facebook announced that they will be delivering more targeted ads based on more...
3 Comments  |  Topic: Advertising  |  

Dell's acquisition EqualLogic may not be fun for EMC

Storage brings in about $2.4 billion a year for Dell, much of it from the resale of devices made by EMC Corp. (EMC). In other words, despite making a lot of sales, Dell doesn’t get a bigger piece of more...
2 Comments  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

DreamBox Learning raises $7 million in angel funding

DreamBox Learning raised $7.1 in million in angel funding. DreamBox Learning is an online learning startup. The interesting part is that they have raised a big sum from the angel investors, that means more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Funding  |  

A Guide to Startup Funding

The veteran Ben Yoskovitz goes through the details of the ins and outs of the funding cycle for startups, right from being boot-strapped, through angel investing and of course, venture funding. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Help  |  

Google gobbles Jaiku

Jaiku, the presence messenger which was making its own waves in this area, has been acquired by Google for an unspecified amount. It was rife in the blogosphere that Google would be 'powncing' on one more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

New startup PoliticalBase launched

Shelby Bonnie and Halsey Minor co-founded CNET. He quit last year to work on something of his own - his new startup is called PoliticalBase, which is an open wiki that encourages research and debate on more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: User Generated Content  |  

Skype Founder says eBay Overpaid for Skype

Niklas Zennstrom was speaking at a tech conference in Budapest and said that eBay had over-estimated the valuation of Skype in the first place and that is a surprisingly candid comment to make. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |  

2001 Internet stars: Where are they now?

Tracking: Michael Merhej, Randy Conrads, Jared Polis, Farhad Mohit, Vanchau Nguyen, Omar Wasow and others who were the stars of 2001, coming up with popular internet businesses which were quite 'successful'. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Stories  |  

Facebook - Long Tail Rules

A really interesting post by Tim O'Reilly on the rise of Facebook as the application platform. As per this article, there are currently about 5000 applications for Facebook but 87% of the usage goes to more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

Pownce - Lessons Learned building a social networking site with one web developer

This is a very good post by Leah Culver, the web developer for pownce where she shares her experience building Pownce, a social networking startup. Pownce uses Amazon S3 to host the files. more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Startup Lessons  |