Jason Calacanis introduces the new Launch Conference in San Francisco this week. It’s focused on startups, similar to the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.
Google is providing an online tool to help people search for news about friends or relatives in Christchurch, in the wake of the earthquake there earlier this morning. Person Finder can be consulted by anyone looking for information about specific individuals, and can be used by relief agencies and others who contribute status about individuals to the database. Agencies can also embed this tool on their own Web sites, giving their users access to the same database.
Edited Extracts from Press Release:Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) has invested Rs. 460 million in Innoventive Industries Limited,(Company) a multi-product engineering company based in Pune, India. The investment includes a primary infusion of Rs. 304 Million into the Company as part of the Pre-IPO investment. This funding will part finance the expansion of the Companys existing
Obama and Otellini in Oregon–all those “Os” seemed to spell agreement on a broad range of tech-policy issues when the president toured Intel’s facility west of Portland on Friday. But there was one small sign of discord, and trade with South Korea was the topic.
There has been much written lately about Apple’s rules for apps, that they must provide an in-app purchase function.
Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini is not one of the liberal tech leaders who helped President Barack Obama get elected. But he is nevertheless heeding the administration’s call. Read the rest of this entry »
Google’s decision to give prominence to links in search results that come from your social network might help to improve some search results but it will not help improve overall search quality.
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The Obama administration released the first National Broadband Map today which will allow consumers and researchers to find out more detailed information about just how many Americans have high-speed Internet and how fast their connections are. Read the rest of this entry »
1) If your job is to provide valuable service to a customer (and most of us do), it behoves you to be on top of what they need from you. It’s your job to over deliver and make the experience a pleasurable one. Great service should be a given in business, but we know that [...]
Few technologies have improved as steadily as digital cameras, long a standard feature in cellphones. But a new phase may be coming, as companies like Viewdle allow smartphones to recognize who is in a photograph as it’s taken. Read the rest of this entry »