Roundup: EA takes Tiger back, tech wealth gap widens, and more
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Elin may not take Tiger back, but EA will – Electronic Arts distanced itself from the golf star following his hyped sex scandals, but says it will be releasing the console version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 on July 2 this year. Woods will return to the [...]
Want to succeed? Try failing
Silicon Valley celebrates its successes, but the failure rate is generally much, much higher. But what makes the Valley different than other entrepreneur-rich areas is how it deals with those failures. Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins, in this entrepreneur though leader lecture given at Stanford University, says that only a company that can deal with [...]
Google grows a pair. But its censorship was always porous.
Just a few hours after Google said it may pull out of China, I got a tip that the company had already uncensored parts of its Chinese search engine. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case. But it seems Google’s self-censorship never was incredibly foolproof.
The Open Net Initiative has a great tool for comparing [...]
Remains of the Day: Netflix to Delay New Release Rentals Edition [For What It's Worth]
The latest Firefox update aims to get more users upgrading when major releases roll around, AT&T starts testing nice speed increases on their 3G networks, and Netflix caves to studio wishes, delays new releases four weeks before offering them to users. Netflix Bends To Warner Bros., Won’t Rent DVDs For 28 Days After They [...]
Eight trends to look for in 2010
(Editor’s note: Dave Kellogg is CEO of Mark Logic, an information infrastructure software company. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
Given the tumultuous events of 2009, it’s easy to forget the world didn’t come to a standstill. Life continued and Silicon Valley kept innovating.
2010 hopefully won’t be as tumultuous, but should be exciting. Here are [...]
EC Roundup: Preventing executive fraud and keeping your data safe
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:
There’s no medal for first to market – While there’s a sense of pride in introducing a new category, there’s rarely a competitive advantage. Serial entrepreneur Scott Olson runs down the threats that come with being first – and the advantages latecomers have that can put them in a [...]
Silicon Valley summit to gather 10 global telecom carriers
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by Telecom Council.
With over 40% of US Telecom investment dollars flowing through the Silicon Valley, the Bay Area is the global hot-bed for telecom. This gravity has drawn 6 of the top 10 global wireless carriers to locate innovation offices in the region, along with many more fixed and [...]
Tech sector flying low but gunning for takeoff
Valley companies’ quarterly results have made it hard to plot a trend this week. Apple reported a quarter that the company’s PR pros have dubbed “the best non-holiday quarter in Apple’s history.” By contrast, Yahoo’s revenue headed down for the third straight quarter. Google hung in there with a 3 percent increase over 2008.
What’s happening right [...]
Valley job-clingers: Why you need to get fired
“Valley culture has an unwritten rule that if you don’t like a job, or if you think your company isn’t going anywhere, you leave. Instead of hanging around the office whining, you walk out the door and find something better and cooler to do. Because skilled tech workers are hard to find and interesting companies [...]
Half-Minute Hero Preview: Don’t Blink And Miss It [Preview]
This was the most pleasant surprise of my week. Half-Minute Hero is a PSP game that rested unattended at a New York City event for XSeed games that I attended last night. It was an assuming oddity in the corner, running on the console that doesn’t have many games that people are talking about these [...]
