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Net pioneer GeoCities finally laid to rest
News With Yahoo's closure of GeoCities, Internet community bids farewell to one of earliest Web startups, but several efforts underway to save its content.
Tags: Web sites, GeoCities, Yahoo! Inc., Web sites, Portal, dot-com, Hollywood, Internet, Web Site, WWW
BuzzCity taps 'unwired' to retain buzz
Insight newsmaker Co-founder Lai Kok Fung views rising mobile Internet use in previously ignored markets such as Indonesia, as key to Singapore company's growth.
Tags: Internet advertising, Mobile advertising, advertising network, BuzzCity, cell phone, advertisement, Small And Medium Enterprise, mobile, TV, Singapore
Cloud fever: What will it take for a breakout?
News Some of the tech industry's best and brightest gather at a roundtable discussion offering a snapshot of cloud computing's progress--and lack thereof.
Tags: Web services, Marc Benioff, Davos, Cloud Computing, dot-com, World Economic Forum, Switzerland, CTO, TechCrunch, Mountain View
Twitter hits 5 billion tweets
News Twitter hits landmark tweet amid recent explosion of mainstream and celebrity use of the microblogging service.
Tags: Twitter Inc., dot-com, Bay Area, San Francisco, co-founder, valuation
Why 'Joe Facebook' wants to cash out
News Reports indicate that Facebook's official employee stock buyback program has been "oversubscribed". Here's why this is normal, and hardly greedy.
Tags: Web 2.0, IPO, Stock, dot-com, payment, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Web, Web 2.0
Microsoft follows Apple into the retail business
News The company said Thursday that it will open its own line of retail stores and has hired a Wal-Mart veteran to lead the effort.
Tags: Sales strategy, Forecasting, Business Strategies & Functions, Best strategies, Apple Inc., DreamWorks SKG, Microsoft Corp., COO, Porter Five Forces, dot-com
Can Microsoft retail succeed where others have failed?
Insight commentary Apple stands out as the big exception but the history of tech companies trying their hand at operating their own retail stores is grim.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Sales/revenue, Sales, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Apple Macintosh, dot-com, AST Computers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Dot Go could be 'the Internet for text messaging'
News New service from Scientific Media aims to make it very easy for companies to run text message marketing campaigns.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Starbucks Corp., Text Messaging, dot-com, marketing, Earth, Internet, Mobile platforms/communications, Internet domain
Report: 2009 to be PC industry's worst year since dot-com implosion
News This year is expected to be the first time since 2001 that PC shipments will see a decline compared with the previous year, says iSuppli.
Tags: Personal Computers, Sales/revenue, iSuppli Corp., PC Company, Sales, dot-com, Notebook, computer, Desktop Sale, desktop computer
O'Reilly: Web is at war, and it's making me sad
News In his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly sets off the "punditocracy" by insisting that the "war of the Web" is heating up again.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Checkout, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Web sites, Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly
Baidu CEO touts growth of China's search engine
News Robin Li tells Stanford students to embrace tough decisions when running a startup, in discussion that centered on entrepreneurship in the tough Chinese market.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Search, Palo Alto, venture capital, Baidu.com Inc., Search Result, China, Internet, Internet company
Investors warm to Web calling
News The rally that's propelling Vonage and 8X8 and luring venture capital to private Web-calling providers is likely to continue.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., Smart Phone, Investor, Vonage Holdings Corp., Apple iPhone, Internet, Web, VoIP/IP telephony
At 40, the Internet's still reshaping history
Insight The Net has crushed geographic barriers and withstood extraordinary growing pains. But the human race has work to do adapting to its creation.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Netcraft, WWW, Net, cloud computing, Web 2.0, Web sites, PC, Facebook
Keeping the faith in Silicon Valley
News Spirits are high and ideas are flowing in the cubicles of one startup incubator, Plug and Play Tech Center.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Venture capital, PayPal, Start-up, Palo Alto, Real Estate, Recruiting, Investor, Facebook, recession
Oracle has customers over a barrel
News As CEO Larry Ellison tries to extend the company's reach into hardware, more corporate clients fret about its high prices and tough tactics.
Tags: Databases, Customer resource management (CRM), Cost control, Customer support, software company, Stock, Sun Microsystems Inc., Customer, audit, Oracle Corp.
