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Startups with No Revenue Model dominate TechCrunch50 Event in San Francisco in 2009

It feels like it is 1999 again! The TechCrunch 50 event was held this week (September 14-15) at the San Francisco Design Center. It promised to be the biggest tech event of the year. Instead, it was a horrible flop. The VCs and even the pundits have become jaded and confused about determining what exactly is a good startup and what is a bad one. At this year’s TechCrunch50 2009, there were few surprises and many disappointments. The people, this time, have voted with their stomachs and pressure from hecklers rather than with their heads.

Written on September 16, 2009 | Posted in Featured, Local News, National News, People, Regional News, Technology, World News | 5 comments

Tags: Chamillionaire, google, Jason Calacanis, LinkedIn, michael arrington, microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Ron Conway, San Franscisco, startups, techcrunch, techcrunch50, venture capital

US Travel Association, IBM, Cisco, Sun, SAP, Microsoft, Oracle … - PR Newswire (press release)

PR Newswire (press release), NY
… expect like the US Travel Association will be presenting a session titled 'Using Virtual Events to Drive Additional Revenue for Trade Shows,' said Michael Doyle, General Manager and Executive Director of VirtualEdge.org, producers of the summit. …
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Written on May 13, 2009 | Posted in Travel | No comment

Tags: association, cisco, ibm, microsoft, newswire, oracle, pr, press, release, sap, sun, Travel

Microsoft, Apple, and Pink: A History Lesson - BusinessWeek

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Pink was also the codename of an ill-fated mid-1990s joint venture between Apple and IBM—just the thought of that sounds weird today—to develop a new object-oriented operating system. Back then, there was an even stranger collaborative effort among …
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Written on April 30, 2009 | Posted in Technology | No comment

Tags: apple, businessweek, History, lesson, microsoft, pink

Report: Microsoft, Verizon Working on Rival to iphone - Digital Media Wire

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New York - Hoping to rival the success of Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iphone, Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) is in talks with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) to launch a competing device on the carrier's network by early 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. …
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Written on April 28, 2009 | Posted in Local News | No comment

Tags: digital, iphone, media, microsoft, report, rival, verizon, wire, working

Iowa governor to meet with Microsoft - BusinessWeek

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Iowa Gov. Chet Culver will travel to Redmond, Wash., this week to try to shake loose money for a Microsoft data center planned near Iowa's capital city.
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