The TechCrunch conference recently took place and its worthwhile event that I try to follow every year. It seems the big trend to emerge this year is around sites that provide consumer ratings and services. In essence, these sites are looking to merge phone book style listings with greater utility.
To that end, start-up Redbeacon.com took the top [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 18th, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
Tagged with: consumer, entrepreneurship, innovation, internet, local, online, Redbeacon.com, San Fransisco, search, service, tech crunch, Technology
For all the talk about our diminishing attention spans, the reality is that attention isn’t so much going anywhere, as it going everywhere and there’s only so much to go around. We may be spending more time online than ever before, but now we’re tweeting, watching videos on YouTube and searching for the answers to [...]
No matter how successful a business gets, it’s important not to lose sight of the strategies that have taken you there. For most that involves building strong customer relationships and consistently delivering a great product or service. In recent months, eBay, the popular online auction house has veered from that path perhaps, but its CEO [...]
Despite the recent moves to curtail the tech giant’s online dominance, prompting most companies to circle their wagons, Google appears to be taking the opposite approach, further diversifying its business model instead. I read this both as a sign of confidence in its current offerings and as a logical next step in order to leverage [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on September 11th, 2009 @ 9:51 am
Tagged with: Business, deal, efficiency, energy, Google, Green, innovation, innovative, investing, investment, IT, markets, media, metrics, online, opportunities, opportunity, Technology, web
The recent collaboration between Microsoft and Yahoo! along with predictions that the future of the search could be the addition of “social relevancy” have pointed the lens squarely at the search engine as the most important piece of real estate in the quest for dominance online, but if we zoom out a frame, I have [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 14th, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
Tagged with: Apple, browser, Google, internet, markets, microsoft, mobile, online, product, search, search engine, spaces, start-up, Technology, user experience, web
As it emerges from bankruptcy protection, General Motors is hoping it can capitalize on an untapped market for car sales, eBay, becoming the first automaker to utilize the popular online auction site for new vehicle sales. While the move is without precedent, eBay already does a brisk business in used vehicles through its eBay Motors [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 10th, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
Tagged with: brands, Business, CARS, eBay, General Motors, innovation, innovative, launch, leaders, marketing, markets, online, opportunities, opportunity, optimism, research, success, vehicle
Reports of Amazon’s acquisition of venture-backed online apparel and footwear retailer Zappos.com took over the business newswire this week, with speculation that invester Sequoia Capital forced Zappos to sell, that Zappos requested Amazon stock options instead of cash, and that Amazon is aiming for other buyouts including Netflix. Rumors aside, news of the merger has [...]
Filed under: Business, News on July 24th, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
Tagged with: Acquisitions, Amazon, brands, Business, conscious capitalism, innovation, innovative, Mergers, online, retail, Sequoia Capital, Zappos
I recently wrote about a trend within the music industry that sees a shift away from illegal file-sharing towards streaming models being offered by sites like YouTube, Pandora and Spotify. And while this is by no means a sign that piracy is a thing of the past, it represents a change in attitude that presents [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 22nd, 2009 @ 3:14 pm
Tagged with: Clikthrough, funding, innovation, interactive, interface, music, music industry, online, startup, streaming music, Technology, video
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.