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25 Nov 09

To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Market Heats Up | Fast Company

  • Just in the past few months, eBay has had to unload both StumbleUpon (the Web recommendations engine it bought in 2007 for $75 million) as well as the Internet-phone service Skype (purchased in 2005 for $3.1 billion), each for a loss. Yahoo is looking to rid itself of several properties, including Zimbra, the email company it snapped up in 2007 for $350 million. FeedBurner, Jaiku, and Dodgeball are only a few of the startups languishing in obscurity under the Googleplex.
  • Fried argues founders would be better off never taking a penny from VCs and charging for their products -- in other words, they need to act like every other business in the world.

White House Pushes Science and Math Education - NYTimes.com

  • To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmers and thousands of scientists.
  • The campaign, called Educate to Innovate, will focus mainly on activities outside the classroom.
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13 Nov 09

What's next for Wi-Fi? - Network World

  • More of 11n's optional performance features will appear in radio chips, and be used in wireless clients and access points
    to make RF signals more resilient, consistent and reliable. In other words, more like a wire.
  • The result is the ability to continuously monitor and
    collect data, which can be personalized based on a user's identity and location.
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05 Mar 09

IBM research: In search of smaller, faster, cheaper memories

a team of IBM researchers who are working to build new kinds of memories. Ones that are smaller, faster, cheaper to build, and that use less power.

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29 Jan 09

Some Things Need To Change

El CEO de TechCrunch uno de los sites más populares de Internet y emprendimiento se toma un descando luego del incidente en Davos, que ha colmado el vaso. Michael Arrington ha sufrido diversas amenazas y agresiones físicas que incluso comprometen la vida de su familia.

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  • I hope that some of my peers will realize that competitive pressures do not give them carte blanche to accuse us and others of literally anything that pops into their head and repeat it publicly or privately. I want them to compete hard with us, but fight clean. I want them to realize that their words influence others who may be inclined to “take matters into their own hands” under the mistaken impression that threatening to kill someone, or physically attacking them, is somehow righteous
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