9 posts and columns on NDA

Ex-Yahoos Getting Downloaded by PE Firms and Others on Possible Deals

in News on November 11, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT

Former employees are good for something, apparently!
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Exclusive: Silver Lake Finally Signs Yahoo NDA, as Talks Proceed With Bidders

in News on November 9, 2011 at 11:08 am PT

Aggressive private equity firm signs on the secret dotted line it said it would not. Of course.
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Early Adopter: Autograph a Book or Sign a Permission Slip–All Electronically at the DocuSign Hackathon

in News on May 22, 2011 at 4:02 pm PT

Would you like to electronically sign a petition or your child’s field trip permission slip? E-signature stalwart DocuSign hopes you would–and so it hosted a hackathon to come up with new solutions.
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Exclusive: Kno Student Tablet Start-Up in Talks to Sell Off Tablet Part of Its Business

in News on February 21, 2011 at 12:16 am PT

Kno–the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students–is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks with two major consumer electronics manufacturers to do so, according to sources close to the situation. But, if a deal is struck, the move would be a dramatic shift for the company, which has yet to ship significant numbers of the touchscreen device as it has long touted.

The Complete Works of Bing Gordon: Odes to the iPhone and iPad

in News on March 31, 2010 at 2:23 pm PT

At a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers event this morning held to announce the doubling of its $100 million iFund, KPCB team member Bing Gordon read two poems–the first a 2008 paean to Apple’s iPhone, the second an ode to its forthcoming iPad. After the jump, the full text of both: “Welcome to the World, iPhone” and “Welcome to the World, iPad.”

Spring Design: Here’s How Barnes & Noble Turned Our Reader Into the Nook

in Media on November 3, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

Puzzled by the weird story of the “Alex,” the would-be e-reader that looks something like the “Nook,” the e-reader Barnes & Noble introduced last month? Then this won’t clear anything up: Spring Design’s court case against the bookseller, which it says broke an “implicit promise” and stole its idea for a two-screen device.
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Phone SDK NDA DOA

in News on October 1, 2008 at 11:21 am PT

Apple has finally realized that blocking open collaboration among iPhone developers may not be the best approach to iPhone application development. And so this morning it dropped the nondisclosure agreement with which it had hamstrung developers by prohibiting them from discussing iPhone programming and caused no end of consternation in the iPhone dev community.