Read This And Earn 500 Points: The Reverse Virtual Reality World Of The Future…

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 28-02-2010

I don’t pay much attention to games. I used to play games as a kid, and I used to play Halo as an adult. But that was years ago.

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SeaWorld Shuts Down Shamu’s Twitter Feed After Trainer’s Death

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 27-02-2010

Following the death of SeaWorld whale trainer Dawn Brancheau, the Twitter account of killer whale Shamu has been silenced.

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Entrepreneurs have long memories…

Filed Under (Ventures) by Admin on 27-02-2010

Sample this from Sanjay Chandra, MD of real estate firm Unitech, in a Business Today article on his lessons from the 2008-09 crisis….the media really worsened the situation. The worst was when news began doing the rounds that we had defaulted on our payments to the Greater Noida Authority, even though its CEO went on television to say that we had not defaulted….The frustration with lenders

These Are The Signs That Show When A VC Is A Bad Date…

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 27-02-2010

[This guest post is a slightly shortened version of the original: Why VC is such a bad date | Entrepreneur | The Venture Company]

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Palm CEO’s Letter to Employees

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 26-02-2010

Palm said on Thursday that its phones arent selling as well as it had hoped and that revenues for its fiscal year would be well below its forecasts. In an internal company-wide email, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein elaborated further about the reasons behind the disappointing sales and what the company is doing to change that.

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EBay’s PayPal Looks to Social Media

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 25-02-2010

Amid competition in the online-payment business, eBay’s PayPal is making a push to attract developers of social-media payment applications, whether or not the product is branded with the PayPal name.

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Google Is A Media Company - New York Times Sees The Connection In Italian Court Case

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 25-02-2010

It seems that the New York Times agrees with my view that the Italian court ruling on Google hosting a video of a disabled boy being bullied, [Italian Decision Could Help Traditional Media Orgs], potentially benefits Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi:

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Bloggers Speculate Over Possible Twitter Ad Platform

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 24-02-2010

Associated Press
The Twitter Web site, which has become the center of speculations about its possible ad platform

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Frequency of Your Emails

Filed Under (Small Business) by Admin on 24-02-2010

One of the most common questions people ask me about email marketing is, “How often should I email my subscribers?”

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Microsoft Has Key Advantage As Anti-Trust Battle With Google Escalates

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 24-02-2010

Google [GOOG] today said that it had received a notice from the European Commission that it had received complaints from three European companies about its business practices.

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