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 [...]
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
The resignation today of Erik Schmidt, CEO of Google, from Apple’s board of directors came as little surprise to many in the industry, considering the “potential conflicts of interest” between them. While the two tech giants have been seen as allies for the last handful of years, Google’s emerging product offerings – the G1 smartphone [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 3rd, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
Tagged with: Apple, browser, Business, economy, Erik E. Schmidt, Google, market share, microsoft, search, software, Steve Jobs, web, web supremacy
Ever since the Academy Award-winning song “Jai Ho” made it to hit charts, the music world has been wondering if other South Asian talents can go global as well.
Envision Solar, a San Diego-based company known for its solar-powered carports, has announced a new product in line with the company’s goal to make use of solar energy in unconventional places.