Yelp Plans to Go Public, Despite Booming Private Market

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 26-04-2011

Yelp Inc., the consumer-reviews website, is declining to seek another round of financing and instead has its sights set on going public, the start-ups chief executive officer, Jeremy Stoppelman, said in an interview.

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How A Virus Can Boost Solar Power

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 26-04-2011

Techeye reports on a breakthrough by researchers at MIT that could dramatically boost the efficiency of cheap solar cells by more than 25%.

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An App to Protect Your Information

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 25-04-2011

With all the smartphone apps that track users’ data, there is one in the making that helps protect the privacy of app users.

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Twitter Congratulates Itself For Its Role In The "Renewal" Of San Francisco

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 25-04-2011

After months of negotiations, late last week Twitter said it would stay in San Francisco, thanks to a multi-year cut in its payroll taxes on new hires.

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WeekendWatcher: An Artist That Challenges The Powerful - Free Ai Weiwei

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 24-04-2011

Can art change society? I don’t think so, I know of no examples. But people can change society, and artists can use their art and influence to make a big difference in the world.

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Digits Live Show: Groupon, LivingSocial Get Google As A Rival

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 23-04-2011

Google has launched Google Offers, its rival to Groupon and Living Social. WSJ’s Rolfe Winkler and Marcelo Prince discuss Google’s prospects in the daily deals market.

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Intel Is Heading For $1 Billion Revenue Weeks

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 23-04-2011

Intel’s [INTC] financial results were at a record level this week. The numbers greatly exceeded its own estimates, which are usually very accurate.

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Chip Makers Suffer Pre-Quake Outage in Japan

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 22-04-2011

SanDisk and Toshiba make flash-memory chips at two jointly owned factories in Japan, which were far enough away from the Mar. 11 earthquake to escape physical damage and also dodged the rolling blackouts that followed. But the companies still have had their share of power problems.

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4 Sources that can help you finance your small business

Filed Under (Small Business) by Admin on 22-04-2011

If you are starting off a small business or are in need of finances to boost up your small business, then you would need to take the help of small business loans. A small business is a business that is restricted to only a few individuals. It is not even listed and does not need [...]

How Curation Can Rescue Great Content From The Tyranny Of The Timeline

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 22-04-2011

When I first started blogging in 2004, I didn’t like the way blogging software gradually pushed older stories off the page and into the archives.

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