One of the things that I have been looking forward to as part of the launch of Windows Phone 7 is the move to increase the number of countries that the Zune Marketplace is available in, as well

In the news today, Animoto.com just had a birthday bash and a cake with three candles. Animoto is an online resource and application set that allows users to collage together their photos and video...»

Each year, Oracle takes over San Francisco for a week and showcases its enormity to the world. At 40,000+ attendees, this year’s OpenWorld is bigger than ever and includes the JavaOne developer conference. Indeed, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun...»

The popularity of Zynga’s online gaming market has been explosive, almost exponential. They have marched virtually unopposed into near dominance of the social gaming market through deals with Google and Facebook. They’re the...»

Mike Arrington broke a story about a secret meeting of some of the big names of new super angels trying to figure out how to create "buddy networks" around early stage deals.

My immediate reaction was

An unknown source revealed to The Wall Street Journal that RIM is expected to formally announce the existence of its much-rumored tablet next week at the developer conference in San Francisco. Though it will...»

Frédéric Filloux over at "Monday Note" has written a good analysis looking at news aggregators: Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters

He likes Techmeme, run by Gabe Rivera, which he dubs one of the

There is a new service in town to empower consumers. Zillow and Mint have teamed up to offer a tool to calculate your home's value.  This will help in getting an accurate picture of your...»

RightScale, a cloud computing company, has secured another $25 million in funding. This investment round was led by Tenaya Capital ( specializing in high-growth technology investments as software, consumer Internet, communications, semiconductors, ...»