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Nick DeMonner, Lisa Hansen and Mike Minardi are trying to launch a start-up into a tough market with just modest funding. Which means they’re cutting costs at every turn. But they’ve found that a low-budget lifestyle doesn’t mean eating ramen [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: entrepreneurs, Lisa Hansen, Mercury News, Mike Minardi, Nick DeMonner
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A handheld cube that lets you browse your Flickr photos. A headset that uses brainwaves to control how fast a bicyclist pedals. And Megaphone, a game that lets users play against each in public spaces with their mobile phones. Those [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: Apple, Flickr, Joy Mountford, Mercury News, mobile phones, Yahoo Design Expo
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There’s no one right or wrong way to launch a start-up. But there are smart moves an entrepreneur can make – and mistakes to avoid – that can boost the odds of success. STIRR, the valley entrepreneur network, reinvented [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: David Marks, entrepreneur, Founder Hacks, Loomia, Mercury News, Munjal Shah, Riya, Sanford Barr, start-up, STIRR
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One of the more talked about valley start-ups in recent months is Spock. Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, Spock is a people search Web site that aims to be the most comprehensive source of information [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: Jaideep Singh, Jay Bhatti, Mercury News, search, Spock
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Botnets, phishing scams, password-stealing trojans — they’re all part of an increasingly professionalized world of online crime that’s costing Americans billions every year. Oliver Friedrichs, director of emerging technologies at Symantec Security Response, tells Mercury News software reporter Ryan Blitstein [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: Botnets, Dark Vision, Mercury News, Oliver Friedrichs, Phishing, Ryan Blitstein, Symantec, trojans
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Nicole Wong, Google’s deputy general counsel in charge of compliance, is the point person for growing criticism of Google’s privacy practices. More than two dozen European privacy regulators have launched an inquiry into Google’s data protection practices. In the United [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: compliance, DoubleClick, Google, Mercury News, Nicole Wong, privacy
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LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman talks with Mercury News venture capital reporter Connie Loizos about where he sees the social networking space headed, as well as his investment strategy these days. [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: Connie Loizos, LinkedIn, Mercury News, Reid Hoffman, social networking
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Why is the CEO of blog search engine Technorati stepping aside? Is the San Francisco company really not for sale? And what are its plans for growing into a new media powerhouse? In this interview with the Mercury News, company [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: Dave Sifry, Mercury News, Technorati
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Continued innovation is key to the success of most companies, and Yahoo is no different. The Internet giant recently opened an “idea incubator” called “Brickhouse” in the trendy South Park area of San Francisco. Select Yahoo employees will take turns [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Inside Silicon Valley Tags: Bradley Horowitz, Brickhouse, idea incubator, Inside Silicon Valley, Mercury News, Yahoo