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Apple fans in Hong Kong couldn’t wait for the iPhone 4 to go on sale, and in some cases they paid more than $3,000 for a gray-market one. Read the rest of this entry »

There are lots of ways that you can approach your brand to make it more effective. Some can be
costly, while many are simple and relatively inexpensive. It is the latter that I will outline for you today. They don’t take much thought or effort but can impact your brand in a big way.
1) Sponsor a [...]

A trade mission from the Gdansk region of Poland, birthplace of Solidarity (and the end of the Cold War), will be in Palo Alto this evening. It will feature five Polish tech companies.

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Facing stiff competition in cellphones and flat-screen TVs, Samsung Electronics is hoping that its bet on low-cost netbooks will pay off with its latest model, the N230, which began selling in Europe this week and will be available in the U.S. from early July. Read the rest of this entry »

MediaNama, which recently had a roundup of online group buying services in India, has followed it up with an interview with Smile Interactive Group’s Harish Bahl. Smile’s joint venture firm Deals And You recently acquired group buying startup Wanamo. (This deal closely followed Battery Ventures and Grelock Ventures committing $8.75 million to another Indian group buying service, Taggle.)Theres a

I first came to San Francisco/Silicon Valley in 1984 and over the years I’ve marveled at how behind the times this high tech region of the world truly is when it comes to broadband access and cell phone networks.

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Apple’s new iOS 4 software for the iPhone could be a game changer for apps that let you track and share your location. Read the rest of this entry »

Because our business does not employ full time employees (yet), some articles in business magazines don’t apply. Yes, we outsource and there are many parallels, though not always applicable. But while reading one an article by Jason Fried (co-founder of 37 signals and co-author of Rework) recently I was drawn to the many helpful points [...]

California has by far the largest number of tech workers. According to TechAmerica Foundation’s Cyberstates 2010 report, it has 993,000 tech workers, and its largest center is Silicon Valley.

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If Facebook is any measure of the world’s consciousness, there’s one thing that’s been on people’s minds this month: GOAL!

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