Archive for September 13th, 2008
A sign on the beach
(photo taken on September 11, 2008 with a Nikon D300 and a 28-200mm zoom in Lloyd Harbor, NY) ...
To Skype or Not to Skype?
You’d think judging by this BusinessWeek article that Skype is a strategic albatross hanging around eBay’s neck. Yes, Ebay overpaid for Skype. And it hasn’t panned out strategically if the goal was giving eBay sellers a new communications tool. But Skype has seen tremendous growth with 335 million registered users and projected revenue this year of $500-million. Given Skype doesn’t market aggressive, its profit margins are probably pretty sweet. The question facing eBay ...
Ron Conway: More Reasons To Go All Angel
Lately we’ve been discussing the many reasons why taking smaller, angel-sized investments instead of larger venture capital stakes often makes more sense for startups in a wobbly, exit-bereft market like the current one. Today, Ron Conway, the well-known founder of the Silicon Valley-based Angel Investors LP fund, now associated with Baseline Ventures, weighs in with his own assessment of the benefits of the “all angel” investment path. A former semiconductor executive who went on to co-f...
Make Mine a Mini: Mini-Laptops Driving PC Sales
Mini-laptop computers, typified by the popular ASUS Eee PC (in photo at left), have been derided by some analysts as little but low-cost toys. But they are changing the shape of the PC business throughout the world, bringing computing power to many who could never have afforded it. As small laptop sales increase, their popularity is redefining the nature of the computing experience, taking it off the desk and making it an integral part of peoples’ lives, wherever they are. With the In...
Thanks to our GigaNET Sponsors
We’d like to say thanks to this month’s GigaNET sponsors: Accenture: “The Innovation Dilemma: How to Achieve High Performance through Superior Research & Development” (free download) Server Beach: By geeks, for geeks Volo Media: Dynamic advertising for downloadable audio and video Ki Work: Take control of your online business Brain Keeper: Collaboration that works Rackspace Hosting: Experience fanatical support Acquia: Commercially supported Drupal Django: Server assembly and cloud...
Big Fish, Big Funding — But For What?
When I first squinted at this morning’s news that casual game company Big Fish had landed $83 million in funding (from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Salmon River Capital), I could have sworn there was a decimal point missing somewhere. Big Fish reported $50.8 million in revenue in 2007, a figure that’s grown 100 percent a year over the last three years. That’s great, but when you look at the larger competitive space, the economics, and the broader Internet...
Cisco to Support VMware?
Cisco Systems will support VMware virtual machines on their networking hardware? There’s buzz around Silicon Valley that there will be a big announcement made at VMworld next week in Las Vegas, and that’s my prediction as to what it will be. The integration of virtual machines and networking, which was signaled last year when Cisco invested heavily in VMware just prior to the virtualization company’s IPO, would have numerous ramifications, not only for the two companies, but t...
Microchip Celebrates 50th Today!
Notebooks, smart phones, Blu-ray players — name a gadget, and it probably wouldn’t exist today without the tiny little integrated circuit (IC). Not only did the IC give rise to the modern consumer electronics industry, but it has also kept that industry moving at breakneck speed, allowing for cheaper, smaller and more-powerful chips to be produced year after year with dazzling consistency. So, it’s easy to forget that it’s only been five decades since Texas Instruments...
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