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Intel’s $8bn Investment Shows Labor Costs Aren’t An Issue In Advanced Fabs
Today’s announcement that Intel will invest $8 billion in new chip fabs in Arizona and Oregon is part of a trend that brings back more chip manufacturing to the US. It’s because labor costs are not a factor in chip production. Dean Takahashi at Venturebeat reports that: Intel noted that it generates three-fourths of its ...
Massive 8x Jump In Twitter Use By Twitter Co-Founder Ev Williams
Last week I went to see Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone talk at an Inforum meeting of the Commonwealth Club. I didn’t hear much that wasn’t already known but there were a few gems. One was how little engaged Evan Williams seemed to be with Twitter. – Mr Williams said he only Tweets ...
TRUSTe Responds To Facebook Privacy Leaks – Not Our Responsibility
Facebook privacy policies are certified and monitored by TRUSTe, a private company that makes a big business out of issuing privacy seals for thousands of web sites. Facebook is one of the company’s largest clients and one of its most problematic. I recently interviewed Chris Babel, CEO of TRUSTe. [TRUSTe tries to manage the massive ...
Intel Launches "Free Press" News Magazine
I’ve been writing a lot about how every company is a media company and Intel is one of those companies that understands this idea very well. Intel has put together an editorial team that seeks to use the best journalistic practices to publish high quality news, features and video. It is separate from its newsroom ...
Winster.com: Dull Games Play Vital Life Support For Older, Single Women
Jerry Kaplan is a serial entrepreneur know for Onsale.com, Go Pen Computers, Egghead.com and his book, Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. His latest venture, Winster.com was started by his wife in 2004. It’s a social gaming site with an interesting twist – the games are non-competitive and designed to be minimally interesting. Yet they have ...
Genieo Enjoying High Momentum
It was great catching up with Sol Tzvi, CEO of Genieo and one of Israel’s top women entrepreneurs. The last time we met in San Francisco it was freezing and foggy — a typical summer in the city. This time we meet it is a beautiful sunny, hot day, and the temperature is rising, which ...
Condé Nast Shares iPad Magazine Lessons
Condé Nast reports that readers of iPad versions of its magazines spend more time with the electronic version than the print version. Also, iPad readers are not typical early tech adopters. Scott McDonald, SVP market research, Condé Nast said: “Many iPad users surveyed were not the typical tech ‘early adopter’ or familiar with Apple products ...
Internet Is Becoming A Cable TV Channel For Many – ComScore Rankings
ComScore reports that 175 million US Internet users each watched an average of 14.4 hours of online video in September. That means for some Internet users they must get nearly all of their video content over the Internet. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property ...
Twitter’s Ev Williams and Biz Stone At Inforum: Surprisingly Little Insight Into Twitter
If you missed Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone interviewed by Brad Stone from BusinessWeek, Monday evening — you were fortunate. The two executives spoke at a meeting of Inforum, which is part of the Commonwealth Club, focused on fostering discussion among people in their 20s and 30s. The location was the stunning Julia ...
Tom’s Take: My iPad Review
My Macbook Air stopped working so I used it as an excuse to get an iPad for light text-entry and blog posting. I’ve had the iPad for nearly a week and I like it a lot. I have the basic 16GB version with Wi-Fi. Here are some notes: -The keyboard is surprisingly good. I make ...