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July 2008 - Posts
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01:03 PM Thursday, July 24, 2008
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Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference was held last week in Houston. If you didn't attend you can see videos of sessions here . There were over 10,000 people at the WPC this year. Microsoft loves partners, and over 90% of Microsoft's revenues is influenced Read More...
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10:55 AM Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Me.dium is a web browser plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer that turns web browsing into a social experience. It gives you a personalized map of the Internet showing where you are, and what web sites your friends are visiting in real time. You Read More...
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01:12 PM Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Failure is part of the maturing process in the startup world. If you haven't failed...you aren't trying hard enough, or you aren't "pushing the envelope" far enough. I have always said " Success is a terrible teacher. Success masks over flaws that may Read More...
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08:58 AM Friday, July 18, 2008
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Microsoft ( MSFT ) announced revenues topped $60 Billion for the year ended June 30, 2008, an increase of 18% over last year. This was the largest annual revenue growth since 1999. Profits were $17.6 billion, up more than 25 percent from a year ago. Growing Read More...
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12:11 PM Thursday, July 17, 2008
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Blogs are going professional and replacing newspapers for insightful, fast breaking, news and analysis. The same thing happened to network TV news years ago. Chris Mathews, Tim Russert, Bill O'Reilly, and others replaced the "just report the facts" Read More...
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10:18 AM Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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WebInno , founded by David Beisel of Venrock, is a Boston based Web Innovators Group where startups can demo their stuff to the tech community. Last night there were three startups that presented on stage (Main Dish) and eight other startups that showed Read More...
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11:57 AM Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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PubMatic published its monthly AdPrice Index for July 2008 and it showed ad rates declining in most markets, especially Social Network sites. PubMatic draws its data from 4,000 Web sites that take ad network advertising, 85% of which are based in the Read More...
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11:03 AM Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Bambi Francisco left CBS MarketWatch about a year ago to launch her own company, Vator.TV . Last week VatorTV announced a new design and new contributors to its Newsroom. I am one of the new contributors along with Mark Cuban, Fred Wilson, and several Read More...
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10:35 AM Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Microsoft announced yesterday the acquisition of Powerset, a natural language search engine. Techmeme has lots of stories about the acquisition. Today the stories are all a bout Microsoft/Yahoo potential deals . But lets take a step back and look at how Read More...
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03:57 PM Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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Microsoft has agreed to acquire Powerset, a Natural Language search engine, founded by Barney Pell. Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President, Search, Portal, and Advertising said on his blog ; Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact Read More...
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11:55 AM Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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Over 600,000 laptops are reported lost or stolen every year at US airports according to a ComputerWorld story. The story, based on a survey by the Ponemon Institute says that 65% of them are never recovered. Laptops are most often lost at security checkpoints. Read More...
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