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Venture Capital Today: Key Numbers to Remember

Nov 24, 2009 –
If you’re an entrepreneur who is looking to bring your business to the next level, venture capital is often a smart and logical choice.  However, securing investment is no easy task.  That’s why it’s important to research [...]

Twitter raises new funds: still no business model announced. »

TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter has raised more funds, this time with a $250 million valuation. Last fall, Facebook was said to have made an offer to buy Twitter worth as much as $500 million.
That certainly would be a boon for Twitter, which until now has not shown signs of a viable [...]

Chrome out of BETA »

Within 100 days of launching Chrome – Google has lifted the BETA tag from the product.
On the Google Blog, Chrome is listed to have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We’re excited to announce that with today’s fifteenth [...]

Google Turns 10…and a Chrome follow up. »

Here is a quick summary of Google’s progression over the last 10 years presented by Fortune on Cnnmoney.com.  Its hard to believe 10 years has past since Larry and Sergey started out of a garage in Menlo Park.  Congrats to Google for their success and many years of success to come.
I just want to review [...]

Browser War — Google Chrome into the mix now »

Google Chrome, rumored since 2004, was formally announced on the Google blog over the Labour day weekend.   The oddly timed announcement was forced after Google prematurely sent out a comic book drawn up to herald the new browser’s arrival to some media outlets 
Many are considering this a direct shot at Microsoft, which [...]

Innovate like Google…. »

An interview with Tom Davenport, Professor of Information Technology & Management, Babson College. While some elements of Google’s success as innovator would be very hard to emulate, others can be profitably adopted by almost any business.

Tags: business, davenport, google, harvard, innovate

Cuil »

Just in case you’ve been under a rock of late — visit  http://www.cuil.com/info/
Started by some ex-googlers, they are already marketing themselves as the largest search engine in the world (given its claim of indexing 120 billion Web pages).
On launch day , I tried to search for the Canadian Prime Minister – Stephen Harper – with [...]

Social Networking – passe? »

It really seems that social networking in the US has started to slow.  
Ante’s perspective on Comscore data
A refreshing view on the Social Networking space written by Chris Williams of The Register
I know that the long tail applies to content.  Given the shear amount of pitches I see on a weekly basis for start up [...]