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Here’s Why Demand Media Valuation Is Greater Than NYTimes
CNNMoney reported: Shares of online content creator Demand Media closed 33% higher Wednesday, following an IPO that valued Demand at more than $1 billion. …That gives Demand a valuation of $1.5 billion — more than the New York Times Co (NYT), though less than other media stalwarts like Gannett Co. and Washington Post Co. That’s ...
Coming Up: Paypal Mafia Godfathers At Inforum Commonwealth Club SF
The former Paypal team is often called the “Paypal mafia” because of its size and its involvement in a tremendous number of new ventures. Coming up next week February 2 at Inforum at Commonwealth Club Max Levchin and Peter Thiel: Smart Venture Capital in 2011 Max Levchin, Founder, Slide; Co-founder, PayPalPeter Thiel, President, Clarium Capital; ...
Genieo Announces Mac Version – Your Computer Understands You
Genieo announced its Macintosh version at the Macworld show in San Francisco. The software runs on a PC or Macintosh and creates a highly personalized home page for users, containing news of interest without any overt training of the system. Genieo automatically discovers RSS feeds for visited sites and learns from user behavior. The software ...
Edelman Survey: Trust In Peers Falls…Trust In Experts Soars
The core of corporate social media practice is that customers trust their peers and thus if you enable them to tweet or write blog posts about your products or services, it will help boost sales. In 2006 the Edelman Trust Barometer found that peers were the most highly trusted group. Richard Edelman, the head of ...
BBC Closing Community Web Sites, Laying Off 360, No Social Network
The BBC is a media organization that inspires tremendous amounts of jealousy within the media industry because of its huge budget collected from all UK TV viewers, and backed up by the law. This steady income means that the BBC has been insulated from many of the travails plaguing other media organizations as they struggle ...
Tibco Launches tibbr: Social Computing For The Enterprise
Vivek Ranadivé, (above) CEO of Tibco Software today launched tibbr, described as a social computing tool for the enterprise. It uses a similar approach to Facebook and Twitter that allows staff to “follow” each other and subscribe to specific subjects within the corporation. The tibbr software is available as a cloud-based service or in-house for ...
Analysis: No Change At Google – Here’s Why
The departure of Eric Schmidt as CEO of Google has led to a lot of speculation about changes at the company as Larry Page moves back into that job in April. But there will be no changes because there is essentially no change in the management of Google. People forget that Mr Schmidt held the ...
Are European Startups Lazy?
The UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph is running a series of articles about startups and has commissioned several columns. Wendy Tan White is the founder and CMO of Moonfruit, a successful UK based startup that offers hosted websites. She wrote a column answering the question “Are European startups lazy?” Certainly, we don’t have a homegrown ...
Why Startups Move To Silicon Valley
I’m constantly meeting companies that have moved part of their operations to San Francisco/Silicon Valley. Usually it is the CEO and/or the marketing and sales group that moves home. Loic Le Meur, a serial entrepreneur, founder of Seesmic, did the same several years ago, moving to San Francisco from Paris. In a guest column in ...
Analysis: Facebook Gains Friends With Benefits From Foreign Investors
Reuters reported that Goldman Sachs will only allow non-US investors to take part in a private placement of Facebook shares because of “intense media coverage” in the US. Felix Salmon explains why in his column: Analysis & Opinion | Because of the media coverage Goldman could be accused of “front running their own private market” ...