1. Austin Ventures 3 minutes ago permalinkAustin Ventures has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for nearly twenty-five years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas. With an investment focus on business services and supply chain, financial services, media and information services, software and ...
2. Survey Says: The iPad Is Not A Kindle Killer 12 minutes ago permalinkWhile plenty of people predicted that the iPad would kill the Kindle when it first came out ( including us ), that turned out to be wrong. Very wrong. The Kindle went on to become the best selling product in Amazon's history over the holidays, selling an estimated 8 million units last year. The Kindle is a very different device which appeals to ...
3. Mobile Economics Will Trend Toward Web Economics 3 hours ago permalinkI've been saying for a while now that I think mobile economics will trend toward web economics as the mobile web goes mainstream. In other words, the business models that work best on the web will ultimately work best in mobile.The corollary to that is that the business models that don't work well on the web will not work well in mobile ...
4. Spectec CameraJet system promises to bring UWB connectivity to your camera 1 hour ago permalinkNot satisfied with an Eye-Fi card to add some wireless connectivity to your digital camera? Then it looks like you'll soon have another option courtesy of Alereon and Spectec -- they've just announced their Spectec CameraJet system, which consists of a Wi-Jet SD card and Wi-Jet USB dongle that combine to deliver a "faster than wire" Ultra ...
5. Cuomo Plans One-Year Freeze on State Workers’ Pay 36 minutes ago permalinkAs part of his emergency fiscal plan, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is expected to take aim at unions during his State of the State address on Wednesday, officials said. 6. Conservative Seeks Political Balance on His Way to the Senate 41 minutes ago permalinkAs Patrick J. Toomey prepared to be sworn in as Pennsylvania’s newest senator, he hardly sounded like a Tea Party firebrand. 7. App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry 49 minutes ago permalinkThere has already been plenty of data out there suggesting that Apple had a monster holiday season. We'll know for sure in a few weeks when they announced their earnings. For now though, we have to go by what third-party developers are seeing when it comes to app download numbers. And one company, Flixster , has given us some key details of how ... 8. Sprint EVO Shift 4G shows up on Walmart's website, HTC teases big in Vegas 1 hour ago permalink"it's not your dream phone. It's the one after that," coming January 6th. Catchy teaser from HTC , as seen displayed across the side of an entire building for all the CES attendees to see. We can't say for sure what device it's referencing, but we wouldn't be entirely surprised if it ended up being the oft-leaked sequel to its Evo 4G, aptly ... 9. Press Release 1 hour ago permalinkNEW YORK (January 3, 2011) — Exit activity for venture-backed companies moved closer to levels seen before the economic downturn as 514 companies achieved liquidity in 2010, netting $39.3 billion, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. That represents a 25% increase in exits from 2009 and is not far from the 613 exits completed ...
10. DIY telepresence robot uses PrimeSense Kinect drivers for extremely awkward push-ups 2 hours ago permalinkFrom enhancing your WoW game to putting you in Tom Hanks's shoes , DIYers the world o'er really do seem to love Kinect . And what do we have here? Taylor Veltrop's Veltrobot remote telepresence 'bot uses the PrimeSense open source Kinect drivers for tracking the user's skeleton, with a modified Kondo KHR-1HV mirroring the operator's movements ( ... 11. ELocity announces seven 10-inch Android 3.0 tablets... before Android 3.0 is announced 2 hours ago permalinkGoogle and Motorola haven't quite announced that Honeycomb tablet we're expecting to see at CES in just a couple days, but that's not stopping eLocity , makers of the A7 tablet pictured above -- the company just announced no fewer than seven 10-inch Tegra 2 tablets running Android 3.0. Specs are pretty light, but we're told the new A10 line will ... 12. G.O.P. Newcomers Set Out to Undo Obama Victories 2 hours ago permalinkHouse Republicans plan to make good on a campaign vow: voting to repeal President Obama’s health care overhaul. 13. What You Missed Over The Holidays 3 hours ago permalinkSome of the stories you may have missed during the holiday break: » SEC Watch: Groupon Raises Half A Billion In Half A Round » Parsing Pew: What The Latest Online Content Buying Numbers Really Say » Paul Allen Refiles Lawsuit, Says He Patented ‘Related Links’ » Goodbye 2010, Year Of The #Fail 14. BitTorrent Hits 100M Active Monthly Users, 400K Client Downloads Per Day 3 hours ago permalinkBitTorrent seems to be growing like a weed - the company just announced that it's hit 100 million monthly users of its software, the BitTorrent Mainline client and µTorrent . That's up from 80 million monthly users most recently. The company also revealed that it has over 20 million daily active users, over 400,000 daily client downloads, and ... 15. White House Memo: Obama Is Serious About His Vacation. And, Please, No Shirtless Shots. 4 hours ago permalinkPresident Obama has accomplished something extraordinary during his Hawaiian escape from Washington: his White House has gone dark for more than a week. 16. New iTunes Features Aim To Outdo DVD 4 hours ago permalinkSome of the coolest so-called “extras” embedded only on the iTunes’ version of several recent film releases from Sony ( NYSE: SNE ) Pictures aren’t even mentioned in their promotional materials. That’s because Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is quietly testing new features with an eye on a future in which digital ... 17. He Entered Congress Swinging, and Exits That Way 5 hours ago permalinkRepresentative Alan Grayson of Florida is leaving office as the pugnacious liberal folk hero of the 111th Congress. 18. M&A Case Studies: ChiliSoft 9 hours ago permalinkThe AVC community's very own Charlie Crystle has a great story about the sale of ChiliSoft at the height of the late 90s bubble. I've asked him to tell it as case study number one in the M&A Case Studies on MBA Mondays. 19. DealBook 14 hours ago permalinkGoldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.
20. Predictions and Prognostications 1 day ago permalinkI've read a lot of predictions and prognostications for 2011 in the tech blogs this weekend. My favorite is this presentation that Paul Kedrosky sent me from the big marketing agency JWT. |
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