There’s more to birdlife in New York city than just pigeons, and a new National Audubon Society birding iPhone app aims to help people learn about it. Read the rest of this entry »
This week’s tweets from the tech world focused on a purported prototype iPhone and Facebook’s developer conference. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m looking forward to the Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Awards Banquet coming up on May 12.
The names, credit card numbers and purchases of users of Blippy.com, a site that allows people to share information about their purchases, are appearing in in a Google search. Read the rest of this entry »
Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal has an interesting post on the topic:Being a VC in an emerging markets like India is like being a VIP. You are at a very high pay scale, constantly being pitched by smart entrepreneurs, called to give speeches at every major conference. At business plan events they are almost mobbed and receive endless amounts of emails, phone calls, SMS most of them trying to
Microsoft reported its fiscal third quarter results with net income up 35% as revenue rose 6% to $14.5 billion from the year ago period.
From Venture Capital Dispatch:
Facebook Inc. has been developing its online payments and virtual currency system, Credits, for some time. Wednesday, at the F8 conference in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg gave more details of that service, including its revenue implications for Facebook.
Venture Intelligence recently spoke with Venetia Kontogouris, Managing Director of Trident Capital. The US-based VC firm has invested into six companies with significant operations in India including Elucido, Microland, MingleBox, Neilsoft, AirTight Networks and Outsource Partners International. (This interview first appeared in the Venture Intelligence India Venture Capital Report of Q1 2010)
