Pity the Pets.com sock puppet. Not only did the canine mascot have the bad luck to become a symbol of the last down cycle -- his 15 minutes of e-commerce...
"How can we use this technology to solve real-world problems?," ponders Tim O'Reilly, who coined the term Web 2.0 four years ago when he hosted a San Francisco conference on the...
"People are going to be more conservative," says venture capitalist Fred Wilson in a video interview with Tech Confidential about the impact of the crisis in the capital markets on the...
"Cloud computing will fundamentally transform how software and services on the Web are created," says Albert Wenger, a partner at Union Square Ventures, which this summer invested $1.5 million in...
Guardian Media Group's recent acquisition of paidContent.org parent ContentNext Media Inc. for a reported $30 million has many in the blogosphere debating the medium's future as old and new media begin to meet in...
Jorge Espinel, AOL's former head of corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions, has joined Velocity Interactive Group, the investment firm co-founded by former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller. Miller on Monday was named as...
Fernando Espuelas, who was known as the "Latin Bill Gates" during the dot-com bubble a decade ago when he founded StarMedia Networks Inc., tells Tech Confidential he is considering offers from...
Until recently, calling Ron Conway the consummate "angel" investor would not have been a compliment. For years, venture capitalists viewed such investors as little more than technology dilettantes, rich hobbyists...
Covestor LLC first came to my attention last fall, when Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson mentioned on his tumblelog how he'd been using a widget (pictured) developed by the...
Here's a clever way to set yourself apart from competitors if you're one of the dozens of video-sharing Web sites: Host the online equivalent of, say, the Tribeca Film Festival.On...
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