OpenTable files for first venture-backed IPO of 2009
OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation company has filed to go public, making it the first technology company initial public offering in many months. It comes, counterintuitively, at a when people are cutting back on expenses — and eating out less. The company works with more than 10,000 restaurants, using a combination of software and hardware to allow people to make online and mobile reser
What will Nathan Myhrvold do with microprocessor patents?
What will Nathan Myhrvold do with microprocessor patents? Intellectual Ventures, the patent-licensing firm created by technologist Nathan Myhrvold, has purchased the patent portfolio of microprocessor maker Transmeta, according to an announcement yesterday. Intellectual Venture Funding — owned by Seattle-based Intellectual Ventures — acquired 140 U.S. patents and more patent applications owned by
Y Combinator plants permanent roots in Bay Area
Y Combinator, the incubator that’s become famous for mentoring and providing seed funding to young entrepreneurs, announced yesterday that they will only be based in Mountain View, Calif. and no longer hold alternate funding cycles in Cambridge, Mass. According to Paul Graham, one of the four partners at the company, “the reason has nothing to do with startups†(in other words, the quality of comp
From A Weekend Musician, To Making $4.2 Million... By Giving Music Away Free | Techdirt
From A Weekend Musician, To Making $4.2 Million... By Giving Music Away Free Here's yet another one for the books to respond to those who claim that music giveaways only work for "big" artists. Corey Smith was a high school teacher, doing weekend music gigs. Then, apparently, his manager had a revelation and started giving all of his music away for free: and last year Corey brought in $4.2 million
Why the young go online | Virtual pleasures | The Economist
Virtual pleasuresMany young people prefer pleasure-seeking to politics—but for how long? ONE of the reasons for Barack Obama's electoral success was his campaign's brilliantly effective deployment of young e-communicators. Their tireless use of blogs and social-networking sites helped to generate excitement, collect money, get the vote out and raise political consciousness in America as a whole.
Hulu who?
Hulu who?After much confusion, it is becoming clear what works in online video IN THE spring of 2007 Jason Kilar was trying to beef up the video offerings of his employer, Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, when he got a call from a headhunting firm. Would he consider running Hulu, a new joint venture by two “old media†giants, NBC Universal and News Corp? The idea was to enter the confu
Radar - O’Reilly
Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology AI/ML Few technologies have the potential to change the nature of work and how we live as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Future of the Firm Everything from new organizational structures and payment schemes to new expectations, skills, and tools will shape the future of the fi
Steve's leave: What does it really mean? - Jan. 16, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- When we put Tim Cook on the cover of Fortune two months ago, shining a spotlight on the powerful, behind-the-scenes executive who labors in the shadow of a larger-than-life CEO, we posited that should Cook ever assume the top job from Steve Jobs: "Apple may not suffer from acute Stevelessness as much as the world seems to think." Our supposition is about to be put to the
The Brave New World of Open-source Game Design
Stay on Top of Enterprise Technology Trends. Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community When Acclaim Games publicly unveiled its Rockfree project, a free-to-play, web-based riff on the rhythm genre, last November, it did something unusual. It invited gamers to play an early version of the game so they could weigh in on the project as it was being developed. That may not
What could Facebook do to increase its digital goods revenue – increase Opportunity. 1/3
What could Facebook do to increase its digital goods revenue – increase Opportunity. 1/3 February 3, 2009 Posted by jeremyliew in digital goods, facebook, gifts, virtual goods. trackback Last September I estimated that Facebook is doing around $35m in digital goods sales. In November anonymous insiders suggested that it was closer to $50-60m in digital goods sales. That’s a healthy run rate, but I
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Presentation: Barack Obama's Internet Strategy
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Craig Newmark's Keynote Unlocks the Secrets to Building a Community
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