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What Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Address in His First Post-IPO Appearance
Someone has a lot to answer for.
Amazon’s Key to Beating Groupon in the Daily Deals Space Is Its 164 Million Paying Customers
Amazon’s online catalog offers millions of everyday items for sale, but how many consumers think of visiting Amazon to buy a meal in a restaurant or a haircut at the local salon?
Autonomy: When All Else Fails, Blame the Bankers
He still says he never shopped his company to Oracle, and Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch keeps changing his story. Wait till you read the email from his banker to Oracle President Mark Hurd.
On Opening Day, Fusion-io Rises 18 Percent
The Utah-based maker of chip-based storage technology for servers has better luck on its first day of trading than the Chinese children’s media company that also IPO’d today. Time will tell if Fusion-io can deliver on the results investors clearly expect.
Former Microsoft Exec Pursuing New Opportunities at Nokia; Former Nokia President Just Pursuing New Opportunities
Looks like Nokia’s search for a new North American chief to succeed President Mark Louison has turned up a willing replacement: Former Microsoft executive Chris Weber.
Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz Invests $80 Million in Twitter
Andreessen Horowitz has invested more than $80 million in Twitter via purchasing stock in secondary markets. When called about it by BoomTown, a spokeswoman at the high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm confirmed the purchase. The move is an interesting one, since Andreessen Horowitz was not part of the recent $200 million round on venture funding at the San Francisco microblogging company, led by Kleiner Perkins and which valued it at $3.75 billion.
Has Cisco Escaped the Air Pockets?
Cisco Systems hit unexpected “air pockets” last quarter, but today we’ll see how well the networking giant is navigating the turbulence.
Social Enterprise Apps Are Popular, and So Is Attacking Chatter
BroadVision announces another social enterprise product, and like all the others in the marketplace, it takes a swipe at Salesforce.com’s Chatter.
BoomTown Did Not Call Groupon's Andrew Mason a Corporate D-Bag!
Oh, to be misquoted! Last week, a lot of folks on Twitter and elsewhere thought I had called Groupon co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason a “corporate douche bag” onstage in an interview gone badly awry. While such a comment is not beyond me, the fact of the matter is that he called himself that.
Facebook Finally Acknowledges Goldman Sachs Deal, Says It's Done
Facebook finally issued a rare press release today to say it has raised a total of $1.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation from Goldman Sachs and its clients.