Skyhook Loses A Big Fish — Apple

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 31-07-2010

Skyhook Wireless, which provides precise location data for smartphones, acknowledged Friday that Apple has stopped using its technology in the latest versions of the iPhone and other products. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Bezos: Put Your Energy Into Making A Great Product Not Into Marketing

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 31-07-2010

(Via Sue Ellen Schaming and Richard Greenfield)

What a great quote from Jeff Bezos talking to Charlie Rose:

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Singapore’s ‘Over-the-top’ Iphone 4 Launch

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 30-07-2010

Apples new iPhone 4 went on sale in Singapore Friday, and its debut in this city state may have been more over-the-top than its U.S. debut last month. Read the rest of this entry »

Brandless At The Beach – NEVER!

Filed Under (Small Business) by Admin on 30-07-2010

Just because you’re on vacation and lounging at the beach doesn’t mean your brand has to relax too.
Here are ten ways you can promote your brand when you’re supposed to be relaxing:
1: Build a sand model of your store or office.
2: This one’s for the ladies. Get a one piece suit and using an exact-o [...]

Silicon Valley PR Firms! Send Me Your Pearltree For My Directory…

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 30-07-2010

The last couple of months I’ve been working with a very cool French startup called Pearltrees in an advisory capacity. It’s part of my nascent consulting services business which helps me continue publishing and funding Silicon Valley Watcher.

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New BlackBerry Touch Screen Set to Debut

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 29-07-2010

The wraps officially come off of the newest BlackBerry touch-screen phone next week.


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Saving Silicon Valley From The Coming VC Implosion

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 29-07-2010

[This guest post is extracted from a longer article: Saving Silicon Valley.]

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Amazon’s E-Reader Out of Stock: Is It Demand, or a Kindle 3?

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 28-07-2010

If youre looking to buy a new Amazon Kindle right now, youre out of luck. The e-reader is listed as temporarily out of stock on Amazons site, and there isnt a delivery date available. Read the rest of this entry »

Interview With SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 28-07-2010

SAP, Europe’s largest software company, posted strong revenues and earnings for its fiscal Q2. The results bode well for US IT spending. SAP also said it had completed its acquisition of Sybase.

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Q&A: WikiLeaks and the Future of Whistleblowing

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 27-07-2010

Digits spoke with Jonathan Zittrain, a law and computer science professor at Harvard, about WikiLeaks and technology’s role in facilitating the release of information. Read the rest of this entry »