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July 2007 - Posts
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10:07 AM Friday, July 27, 2007
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Microsoft held its annual Financial Analysts Meeting yesterday. The New York Times has a good summary. There were 8 hours of presentations by Bill Gates , Steve Ballmer , Ray Ozzie , Chris Liddell, and other top Microsoft execs. There is a ton of good Read More...
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08:47 AM Friday, July 27, 2007
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Microsoft announced the acquisition of AdECN, an advertising exchange platform company. AdECN’s technology serves as a hub where advertising networks can come together in a neutral, real-time auction marketplace for buying and selling display advertising. Read More...
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08:14 AM Friday, July 27, 2007
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For a long time I have wanted to write a post about the irrelevance of business plans. I was waiting for an appropriate time, and a high profile example to cite in my post. Twitter just got VC funding with no business plan and no business model . In all Read More...
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09:38 AM Thursday, July 26, 2007
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Microsoft just signed a deal with Digg to provide advertising to its 17 million unique monthly visitors . Microsoft previously won a deal with Facebook. Microsoft also announced a deal with EA Sports , the video game maker, to serve dynamic advertising Read More...
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01:22 PM Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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San Francisco experienced a power outage yesterday that caused the 365 Main data center to go down. DataCenter Knowledge has all the details about why the backup generators failed. Techmeme is flooded with blog posts about the failure that affected sites Read More...
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09:28 AM Monday, July 23, 2007
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Microsoft has joined with Ask.com in leading the search and advertising industry to adopt standard privacy principles for search history and click stream data. Google and DoubleClick store search queries and click stream histories on every user...in effort Read More...
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06:26 PM Thursday, July 19, 2007
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Microsoft ( MSFT ) just reported 4th quarter, and full year, earnings for fiscal year 2007 which ended June 30th, 2007. Revenues were $13.7B for the quarter, and $51.1B for the year, an increase of 15% over the prior year. Microsoft management offered Read More...
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06:05 PM Thursday, July 19, 2007
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Paul Kedrosky has a short post about Private Equity (includes Venture Capital) returns compared to stock and bond investor returns. Private Equity clearly earns better returns, but you better put your money with the top quartile, or even top decile, firms Read More...
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11:29 AM Thursday, July 19, 2007
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'The Patent Reform Act of 2007 just passed the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. The bill is supported by Microsoft, Oracle, and others. The legislation would help prevent frivolous patents, reduce legal costs, and give more balance to the rights of patent Read More...
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10:10 AM Saturday, July 14, 2007
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Rick Segal from the VC firm JLA Ventures has an excellent post about the importance of Angel investors to the startup ecosystem... and how some shortsighted VCs stomp on them every chance they get. Entrepreneurs remember this; a VC who abuses your angel Read More...
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11:21 PM Friday, July 13, 2007
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TechStars is an entrepreneur boot camp similar to Y-Combinator's twice annual boot camp. TechStars selected 10 teams from a pool of more than 300 submissions. They funded them with up to $15,000 per team, provide office space, operational support, and Read More...
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11:56 PM Monday, July 09, 2007
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Marc Andreessen, former founder of Netscape, announced they have raised $44M in Series C funding from Legg Mason. Marc and some of his angel investor friends funded the first two rounds. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch says the pre-money valuation was $170M, Read More...
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07:43 AM Friday, July 06, 2007
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LiveStation built on Silverlight brings Live TV to your PC. LiveStation is a project, currently in controlled beta, from Skinkers , a UK based company. LiveStation currently rebroadcasts the BBC live, but could be expanded to other TV stations. LiveStation Read More...
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