Blogs about Palo Alto Calif
2007-10-26 20:56 Facebooks hyperambitiösa planer. Riskkapitalet förändras i Silicon Valley
Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg D en som inte har träffat en riktigt ambitiös IT-entreprenör vet inte vad ambition är för något. För ett företag som inte säljer någonting, utom webbreklam, är det förvånande att Facebook i Palo Alto här i Silicon valley kommer att nå break-even i slutet på året. Dvs utgifterna kommer att täckas av inkomster på omkring $150 miljoner per år. Men Microsofts investering på $240 miljoner är bara början. Nu hoppas man kunna få in minst lika mycket till från privata investera …
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2007-10-18 14:30 Kan den gamla hederliga eposten överleva Facebook och de sociala nätverken
I nget är så väletablerat som den gamla hederliga eposten. Yahoo, Google, AOL och Microsoft, alla har de miljoner användare, användare som nu börjar fly till de nya sociala nätverkssajterna som Facebook. Ja precis, hur underligt det än kan låta så skickar vi plötsligt färre mejl allt eftersom vi tillbringar mer tid på Facebook och andra sociala nätverkssajter. Det här är ännu ett tecken på hur fundamentalt den sociala webben håller på att förvandla webben och hur vi umgås med människor på webben …
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2007-09-05 13:10 Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Files for $57.5 Million IPO
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Anacor Pharmaceuticals announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock. All of the shares in the proposed offering are being sold by Anacor. The underwriters of the offering will be Morgan Stanley...
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2007-09-05 01:35 The Facebook Developer Gold Rush Continued
Here are more Facebook application tips from the recent Facebook Developer Garage in Palo Alto, Calif. Learn from successful developers and also Facebook representatives tell you what you need to know. Tags: Facebook
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2007-08-24 18:50 North Shore LIJ, 24th in children s hospitals
Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park just scored a spot on U.S. News & World Report's list of America's Best Children's Hospitals. It placed 24th. The rankings are based on factors like reputation, methodology, death-rate, volume, nursing care, advanced technology and recognition by outside organizations. Here is the full list: America's Best Children's Hospitals, 2007 Edition, Published by U.S.News & World Report Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Children's Hospital Boston Johns …
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2007-08-23 15:50 Can celebrities really get results in Africa
Can celebrities really get results - Yahoo! News Former President Bill Clinton is flying out of Malawi and into Zambia, absent-mindedly snacking on the in-flight samosas as he talks to the press. "Forget about Malawi. Think about where you were when you were 10 years old," he urges. "How did you get from being 10 ... to sitting in this plane" His aides have heard the talk – more than once. But even they tilt their heads to listen. "You may have had a lot of adventures. You may have been very bra …
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2007-08-23 13:20 Facebook Gets Personal With Ad Targeting Plan
Facebook is working on a new ad system to let marketers target users based on information people reveal about themselves on the site. ~A Facebook Gets Personal With Ad Targeting Plan - WSJ.com Social-networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would let marketers target users with ads based on the massive amounts of information people reveal on the site about themselves. Eventually, it hopes to refine the system to allow it to predict what products and s …
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2007-08-23 01:18 Someone Sees An Opportunity on Campus
Saw this article in the Wall Street Journal about Zipcar and Flexcar, the car sharing services, and their moves to make their service available to students on campuses. This situation seems to be a win, win, win (students, schools, and companies). What other ways are student's under served From the piece, Both companies are also lowering their age requirement at many universities to just 18, making cars available to most of the student body. "It's underserved," says Mark Norman, chief executive …
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2007-08-22 15:03 Facebook is on a roll
There are a lot of Facebook fans among the N4N audience, so you're bound to find worthwhile Newsweek's look at the growing up of the increasingly popular social utility. The story takes on such topics as Facebook's growth and potential. .. Everyone knows that Facebook is the online hangout of just about every college student in the nation as well as the inevitable source of photos of nominees for the Supreme Court in 2038 cavorting in their underwear as youths. But the student population is only …
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2007-08-22 11:34 Video-Sharing Site Metacafe Raises $30 Million in Third Round
Palo Alto, Calif. - Video-sharing site Metacafe announced on Tuesday that it has raised $30 million in its third round of funding, led by new investors Highland Capital Partners and DAG Ventures.
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2007-08-21 20:59 AMD fusing chip plans for 2009
PALO ALTO, Calif.--AMD's pretty sure we all want better graphics on our PCs, and knowing us, they're pretty sure we don't want to cough up a lot of money to get it. Phil Hester, AMD's chief technology officer, stopped by the Hot Chips conference here ...
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2007-08-20 16:56 Flight 93 Family Opposes Islamic Hijacker Memorial
Flight 93 hero's family wants their son's name removed from the planned Islamic Hijacker Memorial. Thomas E. Burnett, Jr., 38, Senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company, and the father of three. He made four calls to his wife, Deena, from the plane. Deena Burnett said that her husband told her that one passenger had been stabbed and that "a group of us are going to do something." ROP and MSNBC reported today that a Flight 93 f …
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2007-08-20 04:00 Facebook users can put themselves at risk
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Four out of 10 users of Web site Facebook unwittingly expose themselves to the risk of identify theft and virus attacks, according to a new study that underscores growing concerns among security experts about online social networking. Sophos, a Boston-based Internet security company that set up a fictional account on the Palo Alto, Calif.
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2007-08-20 04:00 Facebookers exposed to identity theft
Four out of 10 users of the Web site Facebook unwittingly expose themselves to the risk of identify theft and virus attacks, according to a new study that underscores growing concerns among security experts about online social networking. Sophos, a Boston-based Internet security company that set up a fictional account on the Palo Alto, Calif.
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2007-08-19 04:00 What summer vacation
The transformation began in mid-June, when Corey Gatewood arrived in Palo Alto, Calif., to get a jump on his freshman year at Stanford University.
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2007-08-19 03:50 DESI SPOTTING: A Hindu/Muslim Wedding in The NYT
Some people read the front page of The New York Times carefully. But for some people, the main action in the Sunday edition of the paper (available Saturday night online) is the Weddings section. It's not unusual to see South Asians among the couples getting married - the Sunday, Aug. 19 edition, for example, features the ceremony of Arpita Patel and Salil Pitroda, who were married by a Hindu priest on Long Island. It's also not uncommon to see Hindu/Jewish weddings as well as Hindu/Christian we …
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2007-08-17 20:02 Sound ID Launches New Headset Fusing Bluetooth & Medical Innovation
Sound ID Launches Innovative Bluetooth® Headset The SM100 EarModule offers the industry s first personalization capabilities and takes sound clarity and comfort to new levels PALO ALTO, Calif., May 14, 2007 Following its mission to bring personalized sound to mainstream consumers, Sound ID today announced the SM100 EarModule, a new Bluetooth headset. The SM100 offers the ultimate Bluetooth experience with advanced sound quality, personalization capabilities, sleek design and exceptional performa …
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2007-08-17 17:05 Strong sales of laptops bolster HP's earnings
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s third-quarter sales and profit breezed past Wall Street's estimates as the technology bellwether continued to cash in on healthy sales of laptop computers and lucrative printing ink. Shares rose more than 2 percent because of a higher financial forecast. HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has more than 8,000 employees in Houston.
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2007-08-17 10:29 Will XenSource-Citrix Deal Hurt Xen, Open Source
Citrix's $500 million buyout of XenSource is a brilliant strategic move that will enable the Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. software company –and its powerful close ally, Microsoft - to steal market share from virtualization software kingpin VMware. The deal, announced this week presumably to coincide with VMware's star-studded IPO, essentially unifies two powerful proprietary software companies, and longtime partners, with an open source startup in a triumvirate whose main mission is to establish a …
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2007-08-17 01:22 Surely you understand Hollywood 2.0 Yes I do but don't call me Shirley.
I'm excited to announce that Jerry Zucker and his new venture in Internet entertainment called National Banana is a new producer and content partner on the PodTech Network. National Banana is PodTech's first featured comedy channel. Hollywood film producer Jerry Zucker, known for his comedic, satirical motion pictures such as "Airplane" and "Naked Gun", will now be bringing episodic, comedic clips and a new comedy community to the Web with PodTech's platform. Jerry Zucker is one of the most vira …
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2007-08-16 15:40 Maybe Your Elderly Parents Can ˜Age in Place
Affluent elderly folks who are determined to stay in their homes as they begin to face the obstacles of aging are banding together, according to a recent story in the New York Times. They are forming groups to: [line] up providers of transportation, home repair, companionship, security and other services to meet their needs at home for as long as possible. Group efforts like this are expected to take root this year in Washington, D.C.; Cambridge, Mass.; New Canaan, Conn.; Palo Alto, Calif.; and …
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2007-08-16 10:20 Low-Carbon Research Could Cut Cost of Emission in Half
By current estimates it would cost up to $1.8 trillion to dramatically reduce U.S. carbon emission by 2050. But that price tag could be cut in half with investment in research for cutting-edge nuclear technologies and low-emission coal plants, according to a study from the The Electric Power Research Institute,a nonprofit electric sector research organization based in Palo Alto, Calif. The study found that a $1.4 billion annual investment in research through 2030 (about $35 billion total) would …
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2007-08-16 06:36 Now it's Xen's turn in the virtualization spotlight (and Kenny+KT)
It's Virtual Thursday's IT Blogwatch: in which we see another virtualization acquisition. Not to mention an early Kate Bush interview by Kenny Everett... China Martens reports : Citrix Systems Inc. today said that it plans to acquire XenSource Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $500 million, a deal that will thrust the application delivery software vendor into the server virtualization market. Rumors had been circulating over the past few days that Citrix would buy Palo Alto, Calif.-b …
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2007-08-15 20:49 Citrix makes bold virtualization move with XenSource acquisition, muddies waters with Microsoft
Citrix Systems Inc. today roared full throttle into the ever-expanding desktop virtualization arena, when it announced its intention to acquire XenSource, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. The news comes right on the heels of VMWare's huge IPO pop. The $500-million acquisition will provide the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Citrix with a major piece of the virtualization puzzle, adding XenSource's infrastructure solutions, based on the open-source Xen hypervisor, to Citrix's existing application and presen …
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2007-08-15 05:07 VMware, Inc. Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
VMware, Inc. Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option PALO ALTO, Calif., August 14, 2007 VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that the underwriters of its initial public offering exercised their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 4,950,000 shares of its Class A Common Stock at $29.00 per share. The option was granted in connection with the company s initial public offering of 33,000,000 shares of its Class A Common Stock, which priced on August 13, 2007. Citi, JPMorgan and Le …
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