EMI and Capitol Records are filing suit against music search engine SeeqPod. EMI and Capitol are, targeting individual employees and investors, in addition to the company itself, for monetary damages. The suit lists its chief executive, Kasian Franks, and backers Raf Podowski and Shekhar Lodha as individuals. The record companies are seeking billions of dollars [...]
Andrew Warner from Mixergy interviews Paul Buchheit on launching startups because he fathered the most successful online products: Gmail and FriendFeed. In a snapshot this is the summary but please do watch the video Launch a scaled-back version Notice sluggish competitors You don’t need virality if your product is good Follow your passion Sometimes you [...]
This is not the first time Google and Microsoft have battled with each other on antitrust issues. The Web search engine Google, which recently released its Chrome Web browser, announced that it is applying to be a “third party” in the European proceedings. The European Commission has sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about [...]
Using the Advanced Segmentation beta feature offered by Google Analytics, now websites have the option to filter their data to view “Visits from iPhones.” This feature also works in conjunction with AdWords, so advertisers can better target ads to audiences using the iPhone. Source: Google Analytics Blogs
CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts that that he still wants to pursue some sort of search deal with Yahoo. He is determined to find a way for the two companies to “pool their resources” to take on Google. So lets wait and see what comes out of this Source ZDNet
Christine A. Varney is an American lawyer lobbyist, and internet policy expert. She has now joined Barack Obama’s team to take over the top antitrust job at the Department of Justice. Varney is reported to have said “For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem”. Google, she suggested, “has acquired a [...]
Gekko is a new and unique way to find places – spots – that you love based on your profile and your match with like-minded people.The startup is using the most blatant use of sex to launch. Unfortunately it’s not even funny. Check out the Viral Video here
Jessica Livingston a partner at Y Combinator had released a book called Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. This book speaks in detail with thirty startups of Silicon Valleys most notable successes. In this was an interview with Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, who speaks about the experiences he had raising money for the [...]
Danny Sullivan posted on his blog an interesting comparison of how Microsoft Live and Ask.com showed better results when one searched for Oscar Winners as compared to Google. Many would say that they would never have thought that Google could be outdone.Providing instant answers isn’t something new for search engines and searches with answers can [...]
A young woman has been given police protection after a video clip of her undressing in a bedroom was circulated on the internet, the short film been taken by an MBA student who decided to release it to his friends when his girlfriend refused to marry him. The Guardian Newspaper reports that it has become [...]
When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]
In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]
Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]
I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]
Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]
