Kai-Fu Lee shares three key tips for the next Startup Asia generation of Chinese entrepreneurs.

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:53

Last week the Melvan?a 1972 Dodge Sportsman Royal Van once owned by beloved sludge-metal group The Melvins?was at the center of a massive bidding war on eBay. As I explained in my piece on the Melvan, part of the fervor surrounding the Melvan is due to some curious graffiti of rock group KISS drawn by ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:53

Fairchild Semiconductor's shares surged 4.5% Thursday as teardown shop iFixit revealed the new iPad ? which goes on sale Friday ? contains a key part supplied by the , California-based semiconductor company. The new iPad includes Fairchild's FDMC8651, a "30V N-Channel Power Trench MOSFET" used to "improve the efficiency of DC/DC converters," according to Fairchild's ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:53

Everyone has heard of the monster returns to some venture funds from high-flyng social media and technology companies: Facebook's potential??800x for Accel, 's??350x for KPCB and Sequoia, Zynga's??100x+ for Union Square, Foundry, and Avalon.?? These single big tech wins returned (or will return) multiples of their entire funds. The sad reality is that these types ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:48

? The fan community has exploded with rage, the internet has been filled with competing op-eds, a petition has been started, and in a wonderful twist, thousands of dollars have been raised for sick children. Now, Bioware is beginning to respond to the controversy surrounding the ending to Mass Effect 3. In a recent interview ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:26

There are over 3,000 bands at South By Southwest this year. You can't turn around without bumping into somebody's guitar. So how do all these artists wind up getting gigs in Austin to begin with? What do they do to set themselves apart? And how much, if anything, do they get paid? Yesterday I posed those questions to a half-dozen up-and-coming bands.

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 00:24

Since the election of 1800, and even before that in the inspiration for the American Revolution itself, the American people have always voted and fought for economic growth and prosperity.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

Private equity giant Silver Lake??disclosed in an SEC filing that it has begun raising a new $75 million fund to be used to lend money to late stage pre-IPO technology companies. The new fund, called Silver Lake Waterman, will raise additional capital through the U.S. Small Business Administration. A source close to Silver Lake said ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

Pinterest is on a hot streak when it comes to users acquisition. However, its existing Terms of Service have received many criticisms, including this recent one on Scientific American. Previously, the Terms of Service allow the virtual pinboard company to ?sell? (among others) your contents. Now, the ?sell? word is gone and Pinterest says it ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 12:25

The head of Hong Kong's Treasury and Financial Services Bureau, Professor Chan, blasted those that call for the end of their peg to the U.S. dollar, noting they are consolidating their financial hub status on the back of the RMB.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54