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Kachingle to 'sprinkle' dollars to online publishers
News Startup will help people distribute, say, US$5 a month automatically among favorite Web sites, hoping the idea will catch on now that content providers are "desperate enough".
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Site, micropayment, online publisher, economist, Facebook, CEO, Canada, founder
After IBM, what now for Sun?
News news analysis The decision to end takeover talks with IBM leaves Sun Microsystems and its CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, with a complex problem.
Tags: Acquisitions, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Stock, Sun Microsystems Inc., computer, Server, antitrust, computer company, corporate computing
Facebook looks to India
News A little late to the subcontinent, Facebook is now pushing hard to win over Indians by adding Hindi and five other local languages.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Mobile, India, Orkut.com, Indonesia, social networking, Facebook, hiring
Valleywag: Steve Jobs undergoing surgery Monday
News Apple's CEO has reportedly checked into Stanford Hospital, near his home in Palo Alto, Calif., for an unspecified surgical procedure.
Tags: Components, Consumer Technology, Handhelds, Personal Computers, Apple Inc., Surgery, Bloomberg L.P., Valleywag, CEO, News.com
Ballmer says venture freeze will spare startups in key fields
News Though the pullback in venture capital investing will winnow the field of startups, “there’s really not a better time to start a business”, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells a Stanford University audience.
Tags: Venture capital, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, oil & gas, National Venture Capital Association, computer, software, alternative energy, CEO, Stanford
A bull market for social entrepreneurs
News Amid a woeful jobs market, Stanford grads are starting their own companies, many of them with hopes of changing the world.
Tags: Web 2.0, Entrepreneurship, Corporate responsibility, Cell Phone, phone, network, entrepreneur, patient, health care, Stanford
Google, US authors settle book-digitization lawsuit
News The search giant's US$125 million settlement with authors and publishers has been called "the biggest book deal in U.S. publishing history".
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Google Inc., Officer, Lawsuit, Compensation, Settlement, Advertisement, News.com, U.S.
Ballmer: We need to be more disruptive in search
News Microsoft's CEO shares some ideas on how his company plans to take on search leader Google.
Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Live Search, Palo Alto, Google Inc., CEO, partnership, search business, Stanford
Gunning for an elephant in Silicon Valley
News Tiny Arista, started by a Sun co-founder, is challenging Cisco with superfast networking gear.
Tags: Data Management, Database management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Equinix, software, network, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Cisco Systems Inc.
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
Coalition to challenge Google Books settlement
News Internet Archive is reportedly forming a coalition of tech giants to be led by veteran Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web browsers, Web services, Web Browser, Settlement, Class Action, antitrust, Internet, Web 2.0
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
A trip to the innovation Valley
Blogs This blog turned one this September and I'd like to believe that there are Filipino readers out there who regularly chec...
Pirate Bay defendants found guilty
News District court in Sweden rules that all four defendants in the high-profile file-swapping case are guilty of having made copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Peer to peer, Defendant, Sierra Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sunde, 20th Century Fox, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, File-sharing
Quantum holographic storage: It works
Techguide Feat shatters long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter.
Tags: Storage, R&D, Electron, Storage, Quantum Corp., Hologram, 3D, Robin Harris, Robin, laser
