Google agreed to settle an FTC complaint involving the launch of its social network, Google Buzz, and now must submit to “privacy audits.” What does that mean for the company and for privacy online?
It takes a lot to run a successful businesshard work, dedication, patience, and vision, to name a few. But in order to keep your business healthy, you need to be in good shape yourself. Your health is just as important to your business as any of the tasks you perform each dayperhaps even more so. [...]
On the eve of Google’s launch of an experimental feature that allows users to recommend search results, Blekko, the curated search engine, hosted a lively dinner in San Francisco with journalists to discuss the future of search.
Would Bill Gates have become the worlds richest man without Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen? Would Paul Allen have made the billionaires list without Bill Gates?
I don’t understand the current debate over the New York Times paywall. Yes, it has holes in it and yes it is a bit lame but the question it asks is: will you support quality journalism?
Making Twitter more useful for the average person — that’s Jack Dorsey’s first challenge as he returns to the company he founded, he said Tuesday.
Craig Mellow, at The Deal Magazine has a fascinating profile of Yuri Milner, the Russian investment banker who runs Digital Sky Technologies, a multi-billion dollar fund. Close connections (The Deal Magazine)
From Venture Capital Dispatch:
While it continues to battle the Chinese government over censorship and privacy concerns, Google Inc. is pushing forward with a bid to find new business.
Apple fans in 25 more countries got their turn to line up for the iPad 2 on Friday, two weeks after it went on sale in the U.S.
It’s a shame that the $41m funding of Color Labs has dominated the news about Color, a radically different type of mobile app, because that’s what’s interesting.