The WSJ reports that Carl Icahn has bought about 50 million Yahoo shares since Microsoft dropped its bid and is readying a contest for board seats. The story's not over yet.... More...
In the future content will be king. Strike that, content will become a commodity. It's happening already. There are hundreds of video series. Thousands of indie films. Zillions of recordings of unkn...
KPMG is excited to be a sponsor of the 2008 AlwaysOn OnHollywood event. To help us guide the discussions, we invite you to complete this brief survey on the state of digital entertainment...
Startups better be thinking global from the get-go if they want in on Lightspeed's Fund VIII. The $800M will have a heavily international focus, managing director Ravi Mhatre told AO....
What does an economic downturn do to VCs? Apparently, they focus on business services and products. Biz360's round is the latest in a slew of business IT fundings...
The title of this post is nonsensical - I just wrote what came to mind because this is going to be another of my "here's what I found interesting on the web this morning" posts.... More...
I believe that there are different ways to ask for the same order. And the way that you ask can either increase or decrease the odds of a successful outcome.... More...
Can you patent an abstract idea? That's what's being decided in a US Court of Appeals in Washington. As innovation is increasingly machine-less, the case could have a big impact on venture capital....
What does an economic downturn do to VCs? Apparently, they focus on business services and products. Biz360's round is the latest in a slew of business IT fundings...
Accel Partners led the series B, reconfirming their belief in the upside of enterprise 2.0. Investors include Virginia-based Valhalla Ventures and Menlo Park's Sierra Ventures....
Twitter, text messaging, and video blogging helped disseminate information and elicit emergency responses to China's earthquake much faster than the government could, or would....
On May 21st and 22nd, the Innovation Journalism conference at Stanford is bringing the driving forces of journalism and innovation together. For the AlwaysOn members and bloggers, it’s going to be...
We live in an age in which humanism is mutating into anti-humanism. Step by step and inch by inch, the broader culture's belief in the unique moral worth and importance of human life is being undermined by advocates for various...
A wheel-motor series hybrid is indeed coming up from Volvo, but don’t hold your breath. Apparently something very big could be in the wings, some sort of next generation hybrid or e-flex technology, making the...
Elevator Pitch: Seevast operates the ad networks Pulse 360 and Kanoodle. Pulse 360 is the content-targeted sponsored links innovator that gives advertisers the control, to...
Elevator Pitch: We're providing a new way for women young and old to reach out, find out, express themselves, connect, share their experiences and ultimately give and get...
Elevator Pitch: ShopText is a mobile commerce and promotions company. Our software platform transforms any advertisement into a point of sale opportunity....
April 7-9, 2008 @ the Four Seasons Hotel. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional investors, VCs, corporate buyers, ibankers and analysts in the Eastern US...
OnMedia NYC is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the global advertising and media establishment. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO pre...
Seed investors Andy Bechtolsheim, Tim Draper, and Jeff Clavier say the cost of launching a startup is rising. Hardware prices, marketing efforts and Google-sized salaries are to blame...
At Venture Summit West, Tim Draper announced he wants to pour money into enterprise startups, and Ron Conway said he was sticking with consumer internet....
The third annual OnHollywood 100 competition has begun! Disruptive technology forced big changes in Hollywood this year: new contracts, new genres, new stars....
AlwaysOn is rolling out its second annual “Hollywood IT list”. This industry insider list will feature the 50 top entertainment executives and Hollywood dealmakers who get Information technology...
July 22-24, 2008 @ Stanford. The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit brings together top VCs, CEOs and thought leaders to debate the significant economic, political and commercial trends in global technology...
AlwaysOn and KPMG have officially kicked off the AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies Competition. We're looking for the top emerging companies from the global technology industries....
September 15-17, 2008 @ Cavallo Point. GoingGreen is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth...
KPMG is excited to be a sponsor of the 2008 AlwaysOn OnHollywood event. To help us guide the discussions, we invite you to complete this brief survey on the state of digital entertainment...
ROK, a mobile entertainment group, has acquired IPTV company Jalipo, which offers live streaming of TV content over the Internet. Live, on-demand mobile TV is picking up steam....