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We’ve been a little behind with roundup lately. Our apologies. Here’s the latest action:
Barnes & Noble Nook sold out — The bookseller’s entry into the eBook reader market is under way. The B&N Nook is out of stockk on the company’s web site and it is ...
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Sony
Bing
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: Apps don’t make your phone special — “It’s not the applications available on the various platforms that will ...
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Microsoft
Al Gore
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:
5 ways VC firms can stop shooting themselves in the foot – Venture Capital firms drill the need to create basic credibility into the companies they invest in – but often fail to take their own advice. Laura Grimmer, CEO of ...
Other
Brizzly , an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it.
The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and includes features like expanding links and photos, ...
Online
Friendfeed
Google Reader
Twitter said it’s planning a large-scale advertising network soon, but U.K.-based Tweetmeme beat them to the punch with a monetization effort of its own today.
The startup, which creates those green ‘Retweet’ buttons you see everywhere (including on this site), is rolling ...
Online
Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday!
We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, speakers, sponsors and the press. It’s clear that the Smart Grid has gained the momentum ...
Other
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk , but for folks who don’t want to read the ...
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Al Gore
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise.
One of our newest speakers is Randy Breen, chief operating officer at Social Gaming Network , where he ...
Gaming
There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store.
There have been other reverse karaoke products, most notably Microsoft Songsmith , a Windows application that lets you ...
iPhone
iPhone
French mobile phone games publisher Gameloft said it is giving up on the Google Android platform.
The company said it is cutting back investment in making games and other apps for Android-based cell phones, even though Android has won a lot of attention lately with new models from Motorola ...
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Sony Ericsson
Hot Potato, a Brooklyn-based company backed by Vimeo co-founder Zach Klein, launched a mobile app that lets you create streams of content around events.
You can create an event and then other people can check-in to them. You can say you’re “attending”, “watching” ...
Online
Vimeo
Playhaven is making it easy for gamers to create fan communities around iPhone games. It does so by creating online forums for fans on its web site, with a new fan section for every iPhone game. Developers can then claim those game communities as official fan sites.
To date, 40 developers ...
iPhone
iPhone
Google hasn’t traditionally engaged in large-scale advertising campaigns. Instead, it has relied mainly on word of mouth to become the $180 billion company it is today. However in the last year, the company (as many mature brands start to do) has rolled out bigger and bigger paid ...
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Microsoft
Editor’s note: Chuck Dietrich is the chief executive of online presentation company SlideRocket , and previously served as general manager and vice president of mobile at Salesforce.com. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.
There is a lot of chatter over the impending arrival ...
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PowerPoint
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. I’m taking some notes as we go.
[Costolo talks about why they changed the question from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?"]
Costolo: In user research, people would sign up for Twitter and ...
Online
Infoaxe , which records your web history and make it searchable, just launched a public facing real-time search engine tapping the behavior of its more than 2 million users.
Infoaxe is a fairly unique entrant into the real-time search space. It doesn’t rely on Twitter’s data ...
Online
San Francisco startup Cloud Engines , maker of a box-like device called Pogoplug that makes external hard drives accessible from any computer or iPhone, today launched the next generation of the device, supporting more hardware and software capabilities.
Listening to customer feedback, the ...
Other
FunMobility , the developer of a bunch of social mobile applications, is releasing a new iPhone app that chief executive Adam Lavine says will finally convince people to use their phones’ multimedia messaging (MMS) capabilities.
It is called FunMail, and it automatically offers up ...
iPhone
iPhone
FunMobility , the developer of a bunch of social mobile applications, is releasing a new iPhone app that chief executive Adam Lavine says will finally convince people to use the their phones’ multimedia messaging (MMS) capabilities.
Lavine points to a study FunMobility commissioned ...
iPhone
iPhone
Behind every tech problem is a human problem – and if you don’t dig into it and figure out how solve it, your company will never progress. Serial entrepreneur Eric Ries, in this entrepreneurial though leader lecture given at Stanford University, notes that a layered analysis of decisions and ...
