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Who Wants Nortel’s 4G Patents?

John Paczkowski in News on December 13, 2010 at 3:15 am PT

Nortel was once a cornerstone of the telecom industry. These days it’s little more than an estate sale, a now-bankrupt company auctioning off the valuables of a fallen titan. Currently up for bidding: The company’s 4G patents.

The Case for the Fat Start-Up

Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in News on March 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to “Cut spending. Cut fat. Preserve capital.”

Want to Work at a Newspaper? Better Brush Up on Your Twitter.

Peter Kafka in Media on July 8, 2009 at 6:10 am PT

Want to work for the Minneapolis Star Tribune? Make sure you can demonstrate mastery of Facebook and Twitter. The daily is looking for a political reporter and insists that the new hire shows up with Web 2.0 bona fides.

The OpenTable Binge and Purge

John Paczkowski in News on May 25, 2009 at 1:31 pm PT

For a company whose business is built on the recession-brutalized fine-dining industry, OpenTable’s IPO last week was impressive. Must have made for quite a windfall for the company’s larger investors. Especially those who took the opportunity to dump their stakes in their entirety.

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