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Tom Lauricella, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 4, 2011 at 10:45 pm PT
In a move likely to ripple across the stock market, Nasdaq OMX plans to announce Tuesday a rare rebalancing of its Nasdaq-100 index, which will reduce the big weighting of Apple Inc. The company currently makes up more than 20 percent of the index. The rebalancing was driven in part by the seemingly unstoppable rise in Apple shares.
Kara Swisher in News on February 14, 2011 at 9:04 am PT
UberMedia, which just bought TweetDeck for $30 million in equity last week, has raised $17.5 million in a round led by Accel Partners.
The valuation for the Pasadena, Calif., start-up founded by well-known entrepreneur Bill Gross–which was actually struck some month ago–is $40 million.
Kara Swisher in News on February 3, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
While he won’t officially take over as CEO of Google until April, the recent full-frontal slapfest on Microsoft’s Bing search engine for shoplifting results from the search giant was so Larry Page in tone and temperament that it brought back memories from many years ago when I covered Google more closely.
I would wager that we’re about to see a lot more of this pugnacious, in-your-face tone from Google under Page’s leadership, which could have far-reaching implications for the company.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 27, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
A quick Q&A with Demand’s Richard Rosenblatt, who says Google’s blog post about going after “content farms” has nothing to do with his company. Also! He really doesn’t like it when people call his company a “content farm.”
Liz Gannes in Social on January 19, 2011 at 6:09 pm PT
Los Angeles-based start-up Collecta has shuttered its real-time search business, including a destination site, API and publisher widgets. The company follows OneRiot, Ellerdale and other competitors that have hightailed away from indexing status updates from social services, which a couple of years ago had seemed like an enormous opportunity.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 8, 2011 at 8:52 am PT
Music start-ups have been a money incinerator for a long time, but that doesn’t stop investors from trying again. Here’s the latest example, which I first wrote about back in October.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 15, 2010 at 10:18 am PT
The online television guide Clicker today launched its own recommendation system called Clicker Predict, which utilizes “more than 50 explicit and implicit behaviors of individuals, their friends, and even kindred spirits in determining what someone will like to watch.”
Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2010 at 5:08 am PT
Yesterday–presumably so as not to be left out of the dueling press gatherings that Apple, Google and Facebook have all had in recent weeks to show off fancy new stuff–Twitter lobbed out an an invite for an event this afternoon:
So, what, oh, what are those little elves at the microblogging service going to show off?
BoomTown’s hope: A new and improved tweet search.
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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.”
Kara Swisher in News on February 4, 2010 at 8:11 am PT
Here are two quotes that got me thinking about what would happen if Facebook–whose user base is inexorably marching toward 400 million–ever got serious about the news aggregation business.
While it is not doing that now in any organized fashion, it will be increasingly obvious that consumers are inevitably moving away from the only-search paradigm to that of discovery through social and other jacked-up affiliation networks.
