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Google Buying Groupon: It Doesn’t Make Sense
Faith Merino at VatorNews reports that Google has purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion: " … according to an unnamed insider who spoke with VatorNews. Neither Google nor Groupon could be reached for comment to confirm the report, but Vator’s source is reliable and the report falls in line with the recent string of Groupon acquisition ...
Talent Wars: Salesforce Builds On Its Momentum With Rangaswami Hire
Salesforce.com has been on a tear this year with financial results exceeding Wall Street estimates; a massive expansion of its headquarters in San Francisco; a gift of $100 million to build a Children’s hospital; and now: luring JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist at UK Telecom giant BT to assume the same position at Salesforce. Larry Dignan, ...
Silicon Valley Goes To Oxford: Twitter Co-Founder Says It Would Not Sell for $5 Billion – Wants To Do More
Every year the Saїd Business School, University of Oxford, hosts its "Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford" event and invites well known Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. At this year’s event Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, was one of many featured speakers. As usual, he was asked if Twitter is for sale, reports Mike Magee at TechEye: Twitter ...
Horn Group: Expanding Beyond Traditional PR
I recently caught up with Sabrina Horn, founder of the Horn Group, one of the larger San Francisco PR agencies. Here are some notes from our meeting: – Horn Group’s New York based business is expanding and is now equal with its San Francisco/Silicon Valley based clients. But the monthly retainers are smaller because the ...
Analysis: Reports That Apple Will Ally With Murdoch Sets Troubling Precedent
Reports that Apple is working with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to produce an iPad only newspaper, called the "Daily," sets a troubling precedent. It has not done the same with music, TV or movie studios. The UK’s Guardian reports: iPad ‘newspaper’ created by Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch | Technology | guardian.co.uk ‘The collaboration, which ...
Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford University
Coming up next week, the Saїd Business School, University of Oxford is hosting its annual "Silicon Valley comes to Oxford" (SVCO) event and presenting some of Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs. The focus this year is to: "explore the disruptive technologies and business innovations of the past 10 years, and the demise of incumbent industries, standard ...
ComScore: Microsoft Search Grew Faster Than Google In October
The latest US search engine rankings from comScore show that only Google and Microsoft grew their market share while Yahoo!, Ask and AOL lost share. Microsoft’s Bing outpaced Google in October, adding 0.3 percentage points to 11.5% market share. Google increased its lead by 0.2 percentage points to 66.3%. Second placed Yahoo! slipped by 0.2% ...
TEDxSF: The Edge Of What We Know
The independent organization TEDxSF put together an excellent program Tuesday evening with a great lineup. Here is what we saw along the theme of "The Edge of What We Know." – Juan Enriquez spoke about the poverty in the Mexican state of Chiapas and his role as a negotiator between the Mexican government and the ...
Jason Calacanis: "Launch" Newsletter Should Be Ready In December
I ran into Jason Calacanis at Canaan Partners "Web after dark" event at the ritzy Bently Reserve in San Francisco Monday evening. He said that the first edition of his "Launch" newsletter, focused on longer "thought pieces" about tech startups should be ready in December and that he is building an editorial team of mostly ...
The Knight News Challenge: A Right-to-Respond Button Next To Every News Story
The Knight News Challenge offers $5 million in funding to the best ideas that "use digital platforms to deliver news and information to geographically defined communities." It is now in its fifth year and the deadline is December 1. Here is my application, let me know what you think. The goal of this project is ...