The Beginning Of The End Of Native Twitter Apps
Another month, another Twitter app bites the dust — and this time, it's one of Twitter's own. The version of TweetDeck that runs on Adobe Air (the one with the yellow icon) will cease to function as...
View ArticleDoes Google Mean What It Says?
In business, meaning what you say is unnecessary. It can also have consequences.Was a Beijing restaurant really serious when it posted a sign that read: "This shop does not receive the Japanese, the...
View ArticleHow And Why LinkedIn Is Becoming An Engineering Powerhouse
Most LinkedIn users know “People You May Know” as one of that site’s flagship features — an onmipresent reminder of other LinkedIn users with whom you probably want to connect. Keeping it up to date...
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Indeed Is Becoming The Google Of Job Search
Indeed is turning into the Google of job search.The web site announced today that it has reached 100 million unique visitors worldwide in January, a 20% gain since late September. By some measures, the...
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Kleiner Perkins Admits To Investors That It's Totally Whiffed Lately
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Blue-chip venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers expressed frustration with poor fund performance and promised to do better at gatherings for investors last...
View ArticleWhy The Unlocking Phones Debate Is Important
The White House and the FCC have recently come out in favor of allowing consumers to unlock their phones. That is a really good thing. Let's hope that the rest of the regulators in this country join...
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Apple Talking To Beats Electronics About Teaming Up On New Music Service
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc has held talks with Beats Electronics LLC, the audio technology firm co-founded by influential hip-hop producer Dr Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine, on a...
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YouTube Thinks It Can Take On Spotify, And It's Launching A Music...
YouTube is owned by Google, which is also set to make a play in the lucrative music-streaming market, but reportedly has a negotiating team separate from that of its parent company.Last month it was...
View ArticleThe Book Of Awesome
If this book is as short and as good as this video, I am going to love it. You can back the project on Kickstarter and get the book and other rewards. I just did. Read more posts on A VC »Please follow...
View ArticleWe Will Soon Be Able To Control Computers With Our Brain
Amplifiers for the human brain, designed to allow people with paralysis to interact with the world, aren’t the most easily understood technology. So g.tec, the company that makes them, has come up with...
View ArticleWhy Mobile Ads Stink: It's Not Just a Tech Deficit, It's a Digital-Attention...
Ads are simultaneously an essential force in our lives and hardly in our lives at all. The paradox of advertising is that we spend most of our lives ignoring ads while we also spend hours browsing...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft Shouldn't Have Bothered 'Scroogling' Google
When I saw a TV ad using this strange word scroogled, I wasn't quite sure what it meant, so I looked it up in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. I got this reply: “The word you've entered isn't in...
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Facebook Is No Longer Real-Time
It’s a good thing Facebook is thinking of redesigning the News Feed. Because I think a funny thing is happening to Facebook.For me, the news feed no longer surfaces anything of interest. The opaque...
View ArticleWe Heart WiFi
One of the biggest problems at SXSW is lack of a good mobile data connection. The carrier networks are overloaded by the sheer density of people using their phones. And the SXSW WiFi is similarly...
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Google Fires 1,200 More From Motorola Mobile
Google's Motorola Mobility unit will lay off some 1,200 employees, or more than 10 percent of its workforce, in a bid to return to profitability, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.The Journal...
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Intel Actively Considering Candidates For CEO From Outside The Company
Intel is showing how serious it is about tackling the big challenges it faces by actively considering outside candidates for the company’s next CEO. If one of them is selected, it would be the first...
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Soon You Will Interact With Computers Through Thought Alone
Amplifiers for the human brain, designed to allow people with paralysis to interact with the world, aren’t the most easily understood technology. So g.tec, the company that makes them, has come up with...
View ArticleNCWIT Award
A couple weeks ago, I was honored with an award from the NCWIT. the National Center for Women and Information Technology. Unfortunately, I had a bad flu and couldn’t accept the award in person. So my...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: The Jack Dorsey Interview
A bit over a week ago, I was asked to interview Jack Dorsey at the NYU Entrepreneur Festival. I posted that news to AVC and all of you helped me compose the set of questions I used for the...
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Google Maps Might Be Banned In Germany Over A Patent Dispute (MSFT, GOOG)
The German courts are on the point of banning Google Maps over a patent dispute with Microsoft.A judge in Munich has told Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility that he is inclined to hold them...
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