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Kim Dotcom Poised For Return With Megaupload Successor
Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom will launch a new file-sharing site at his Auckland mansion on Sunday, exactly a year after armed police arrested him at the same venue in the world's largest online piracy...
View ArticleFeature Friday: The Explore Page
At USV we invest in a lot of networks and marketplaces. These are messy places where anyone can post most anything and it can be hard to find the good stuff. Enter the explore page. Using data,...
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Google Chief Takes Swipe At Facebook And Apple
Google's chief executive Larry Page has taken a swipe at Facebook and Apple, claiming the giant social network is "doing a really bad job on their products" and that the iPhone maker's limited range of...
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Dell Could Go Private In $15 Billion Deal As Soon As Tuesday
Silver Lake Management LLC and partners are close to lining up about $15 billion in funds for a buyout of Dell Inc., the third-biggest maker of personal computers, said people familiar with the...
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Intel's Desperate Plan To Save Itself
In October, I wrote about the seven reasons Intel could be the next RIM, the beleaguered maker of the Blackberry smartphone. Judging by the amount of traffic that post got from behind Intel’s own...
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iPad Parts Supplier Has Nearly Halted Production
Sharp Corp has nearly halted production of 9.7-inch screens for Apple Inc's iPad, two sources said, as demand shifts to its smaller iPad mini.Sharp's iPad screen production line at its Kameyama plant...
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Here Are Some Hilarious Bits From HBO's New Comedy About Silicon Valley
Last month came word that HBO, Time Warner’s premium cable network, had ordered the pilot episode of Silicon Valley, a half-hour comedy skewering the US technology industry. Now I’ve got my hands on...
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Google's Latest $1 Billion Acquisition: A London HQ
Google Inc. is developing a new UK headquarters which could be worth as much as 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) when finished, the latest overseas property deal for the cash-rich U.S. Internet...
View ArticleThey're Happily Married. They Created The Smash-Hit Game "Temple Run." How...
“It’s very polarizing when we say that we’re married and work together,” says Keith Shepherd of his partnership with his wife Natalia Luckyanova. The couple founded Imangi Studios, a mobile gaming...
View ArticleWhy SurveyMonkey Is Holding Off On An IPO
FORTUNE -- Forgive Dave Goldberg, chief executive of rapidly growing SurveyMonkey, for not being in the slightest rush to take his 13-year-old company public. Let's just say he has lived the...
View ArticleWhy Nokia’s 3D-Printing Move Embraces The Future
Nokia has just done something pretty unusual: it’s invited its users to effectively tailor an element of its smartphone hardware to their individual needs.As a Friday present for its more enterprising...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Nate Silver at Google
I am currently reading Nate Silver's The Signal and The Noise which I am enjoying very much. So I've got Nate on my brain right now. Here's a great hour long talk that Nate did at Google in late...
View ArticleWhat Is The Net Native Model?
My partner Brad is fond of reminding us at USV that taking the offline model for something and porting it to the web is not often the best way to build a business online. John Markoff's piece in the...
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Eric Schmidt's Daughter Describes Their Recent Trip To North Korea
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s daughter Sophie has posted a lengthy account with photos of their recent trip to North Korea. She describes deep government control of the nine-person...
View ArticleOne Book Every Entrepreneur Should Own
Brad Feld seems to write books faster than I can read and write about them.This time he has written a book that is far more important than most management books you will read. He teamed up with his...
View ArticleMBA Mondays: Revenue Models - Transaction Processing
Transaction Processing is not a "net native" business model. There have been businesses built up around processing transactions for a long time. But the Internet and Mobile present some challenges in...
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The War Between Microsoft And Google Heats Up
Tech giants Microsoft(MSFT, $27) and Google(GOOG, $705) are locked in a multi-front struggle whose outcome will have enormous implications for the shareholders of both companies as well as technology...
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Ex-Microsoft Exec Says Ballmer Targets And Expels Threats To His Throne
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world's largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges...
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Google Is Slipping In Mobile And Search
Android momentum could be slowing as Google also loses some ground to Bing in online search.Research from two sources indicates that Google search fell 3 percent year-on-year and that growth in its...
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How To Make Foursquare Fun Again
I don't know anything about Foursquare's fundraising plans--but as a user, I certainly hope the company lives to die another day. Somewhere along the line, the product went from changing the way I...
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