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Monday, 18th January 2010

Open Thread: How Are Your Social Media "Causes" Actually Helping Anyone?

Today, Americans are celebrating a very somber but inspiring national holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. As Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a blog post a few days ago, "People all over the United States are urged to honor Dr. King's legacy by making this holiday a national day of service." Stone reminded us of this wonderful quotation…

Jolie O'Dell comments

Augmented Reality

World Cup 2010 Promotions to Use Augmented Reality

There's still 142 days, 18 hours and a few minutes until the 2010 World Cup launches in South Africa but the first use of cutting-edge promotional technology is already making an appearance. Sports have been where a lot of technology in the new Augmented Reality category first went mainstream - from Sportvision's down-line TV overlays to IBM's…

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Stock Options 101: Negotiating Ownership

Before moving to the Valley I thought stock was something you made by simmering meat and vegetables in a pot of boiling water. To this day I'm still no expert in negotiating for equity, but I recognize a great resource when I see one. Fansnap co-founder and investor Andrew Payne recently wrote an article entitled, Startup Equity for Employees…

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Startup Finance: Xero Powers Accounting in the Cloud

When New Zealand-based entrepreneur Rod Drury began researching his market he could hardly believe what he was seeing. As seen in Drury's comments last week on the state of the online finance ecosystem, only a handful of players like Saasu and MYOB were targeting small business clients. While Drury saw that a number of cloud-based personal…

Dana Oshiro comments

Broadband Speeds Increase Around the World - But Not in the U.S.

Looking at data from the third quarter of 2009, content delivery network Akamai just announced that the average broadband speed in the U.S. declined by 2.4% in the third quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter in 2008. In the U.S., Delaware currently leads with 7.2 Mbps, though it remains far behind South Korea, where the average speed is…

Frederic Lardinois comments

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