MediaWatch: Journalists Won’t Report News Unless It Can Drive Page Views

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 27-05-2010

Sam Whitmore is the best media watcher around, he regularly talks to the press as part of his research for the excellent Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, which is heavily used by all the large PR agencies.

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Live-Blogging Facebook’s Privacy-Policy Announcements

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 26-05-2010

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be discussing details of new privacy controls in a conference call Wednesday. Digits will live-blog the call, which is set to begin at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Read the rest of this entry »

Private Equity in Infrastructure: What’s Needed?

Filed Under (Ventures) by Admin on 26-05-2010

Sanjay Sethi, ED & Head of Infrastructure Group, Kotak InvestmentBanking has an article in the Economic Times on the current challenges in raising PE funding for infrastructure projects and what’s needed to boost such transactions.What India needs: India could well do with more pure-play specialist infrastructure funds with long-term investment horizon and reasonable return expectations (in the

Broadvision Reboots Its Business As A Collaborative Enterprise Platform

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 26-05-2010


Broadvision today announced a collaborative business platform, Clearvale, and a partnership with Softbank, a major Japanese telecommunications company.

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Chiefs of Samsung and Sony Meet — But to Discuss What?

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 25-05-2010

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee met with Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer over dinner late Monday in Seoul, and news of a meeting between the arch-rivals stirred up speculation. Read the rest of this entry »

MediaWatch Monday: Journalists Won’t Report News Unless It Can Drive Page Views

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 25-05-2010

Sam Whitmore is the best media watcher around, he regularly talks to the press as part of his research for the excellent Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, which is heavily used by all the large PR agencies.

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Yahoo’s on Search, Social Media and the Company’s Focus

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 24-05-2010

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is set to have a “fireside chat” at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York. Digits will live-blog the event. Read the rest of this entry »

So Many Social Media Experts… But These Are The Doers…

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 24-05-2010

There are so many people branding themselves as social media experts these days that we could lose sight of the people who really are social media experts because they are doing it.

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So Many Social Media Experts… These Are The Doers Not The Sayers

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 24-05-2010

There are so many people branding themselves as social media experts these days that we could lose sight of the people who really are social media experts because they are doing it.

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Tech Tweets of the Week: The Onion Leaves us Laughing

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 22-05-2010

This week’s tech tweets included missives from Google’s i/o conference and reactions to the Onion’s take on tech trends. Read the rest of this entry »