I am a big fan of ReadWriteWeb. I think they have some of the best tech analysis you can find. SAY Media agreed and acquired it, and the property has undergone some serious changes. Gone is founder Richard MacManus, but coming in is […]
The team at 500 Startups is making the news today, adding two new Venture Partners. Shai Goldman joins the team, coming from a tenure at Silicon Valley Bank. He’s joined by Pankai Jain, a name that’s very well known within the Startup Weekend circles. The additions […]
Quora cofounder Charlie Cheever was suddenly bounced from the company almost a month ago, on September 11. This was a huge surprise. Cheever had founded Quora, a Q&A site, with Adam D’Angelo back in 2009, when both had sterling reputations coming out of Facebook. […]
Simon Cowell is on the hunt for the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. According to The Sun, the former American Idol and current X Factor judge is teaming up with Black Eyed Peas rapper Will.i.am to find the next hot tech […]
It is David Ebersman’s fault. There is just no way around it. Mr. Ebersman is Facebook’s well-liked, boyish-looking 41-year-old chief financial officer. He’s not as well known as Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, or Sheryl Sandberg, its chief operating officer […]
Well, choosing a place to setup your new startup can be as important as your startup itself. India being a huge country provides different options for setting up a startup. Above all the other cities, I’d say Bangalore, being a […]
According to several sources, Yahoo is now on the hunt for a COO — with special emphasis on someone with turnaround experience — presumably to be a worker-bee No. 2 to product-guru CEO Marissa Mayer. Several Silicon Valley execs and […]
“Acqhires” — where larger tech companies make deals to absorb young companies for their talent rather than their product – are a bizarre and unique part of the Silicon Valley economy. When it really comes down to it, they are about […]
Top Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn — who lost the CEO race to former Google exec Marissa Mayer — is leaving the company, according to several sources. Mayer also just sent a note to the company about the departure, added a […]
Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer’s second week is showing even more signs of what the company will be like under her regime. In short: It will be just like Google, from whence she came. Praise be: Yahoogle lives! Wasting little […]
