Many exciting biomed startups have found a home in the venture capital market. “Public investors are risk averse these days,” says VentureWire’s Tom Salemi. “They only want to bet on as sure a thing as possible. That’s not usually the [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — With the 2006 NFL season set to kickoff September 7, fantasy football geeks are doing their research, hoping to draft the perfect fantasy team and lead their virtual team to victory. PodTech’s [See the full post…]

Lots of companies ask PodTech how to make podcasts work most effectively for them. Greg Ness from Blue Lane Technologies on the August 28 Marketing Voices describes what he did to make the Master of IT series successful for Juniper. [See the full post…]

Podcasts are perfect as marketing tools used to increase awareness for a company. Jennifer speaks with Greg Ness, vice president of corporate marketing of Blue Lane Technologies, who created Juniper’s well known Master of IT podcast series in his previous [See the full post…]

I thought Coke and the World Cup was pretty cool as well. It really showed innovation and perspective on how to market today and work with the bloggers. Jennifer Jones

HI…this is jennifer jones. Thanks for your thoughts. Robert Scoble is going to be talking about blogging in two weeks on the show. Regarding Debbie’s interview, we wanted to give others a chance to talk about corporate blogging and her [See the full post…]

Common Sense Media CEO and founder Jim Steyer discusses the results of a major new study that finds the music teens listen to can influence the decisions they make about sexual behavior. More info: CommonSenseMedia.org

MENLO PARK, August 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the wake of laptop computer battery fires and explosions,Dell, Inc. and Apple Computer both announced recalls of over 6 million lithium-ion laptop computer batteries over the last two weeks. That’s what [See the full post…]

BOSTON, August 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — Government representatives from Denmark, Norway and Sweden are meeting this week to discuss possible legal action against Apple. Consumer advocates say that Apple’s iTunes music store is unnecessarily restrictive, in that music and [See the full post…]

I have spent more than two decades in technology marketing and have always been a big believer in candor and transparency with the “market”. As a General Manager at Regis McKenna in the 1980s and then later as a Marketing [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 24, 2006 (PodTech News) — Apple Computer Inc. today recalled 1.8 million lithium-ion laptop computer batteries built by Sony. The announcement came just 10 days after PC-maker Dell Inc.’s recall of over 4 million Sony-made notebook computer [See the full post…]

Four hundred members of the Linden Lab’s MMORPG Second Life got together for a community conference in San Francisco. With badges bearing their avatar names, participants flew in from as far away as Italy, Germany and Japan to hear panels [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, August 24, 2006, (PodTech News) — Sony Pictures Entertainment announced a $65 million deal Wednesday to acquire Grouper Networks Inc., putting the media company in play in the viral media space. The acquisition brings together one of the [See the full post…]

IMS is often presented as the “Holy Grail” of network architectures that will enable carriers to choose best of breed components from multiple vendors. In reality, vendors and service providers must jointly invest significant effort to achieve interoperability based on [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 23, 2006 (PodTech News) – Friendster Inc. announced Monday that it has received $10 million in new funding. The money will support a renewed effort to refocus on its original mission to be a “real-world” social network. [See the full post…]

Watch Video | Download Video “There are some really weird, creative companies that are succeeding now in Web 2.0.” With Web 2.0’s recent explosion of creativity, Halley Suitt, prominent blogger, CEO and publisher of Top 10 Sources observes that how [See the full post…]

Change is coming fast for health care investors, executives and entrepreneurs. Public investors have rejected companies built on once-surefire models. Big Pharma, after years of nibbling, is acquiring private drug companies to boost internal pipelines. IT may finally be making [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, August 22, 2006, (PodTech News) — The online video sharing site YouTube sees dollar signs in Paris Hilton, launching it’s first brand channel featuring the hotel heiress. The new advertising revenue model will try to integrate advertiser brand [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response Podcast focusing on the top security measures a consumer should take when setting up a new personal computer. Additionally, this podcast outlines the critical steps new personal computer owners need to take to protect their valuable [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, August 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — Horror and comedy mixed to narrowly edge out the competition and come out at the top of the box office over the weekend. “Snakes on a Plane” the suspense-thriller from New Line [See the full post…]

We’re kicking off a new interview series here at PodTech News, Web 2.0 Voices, and we’d love your ideas. Which companies are on your list of the Web 2.0 firms to watch? Who are the people behind the hot new [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — Digg.com‘s Founder and Chief Architect, Kevin Rose, is having a good time. His “social news” website, Digg.com received about $3 million in funding last year from the Omidyar Network, Netscape co-founder Marc [See the full post…]

Canonical COO Jane Silber speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about collaborations between enterprise and open source software. Silber says the cooperative model is the inevitable wave of the future.

There are over 4 million Linux-based mobile phones in China. Linux phones are quietly making their way to the U.S., and at LinuxWorld 2006 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Karsten Homann of TrollTech, and Jim Cook of [See the full post…]

Debbie Weil, Author of a newly published book called The Corporate Blogging Book discusses with host, Jennifer Jones how blogs are used for marketing to develop greater thought leadership, stronger community building and better customer relations. Debbie is a well [See the full post…]