Startup 500friends, which provides social technologies for e-commerce websites, has raised $4.5 million in Series A financing led by Crosslink Capital with participation from Intel Capital.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 08:18

Jefferies semiconductor analyst Mark Lipacis early Thursday raised his rating on Advanced Micro Devices to Buy from Hold, lifting his target to $10.50 from $7. The stock closed Wednesday at $7.76. ?AMD offers one of the best risk/reward ratios in semis,? he writes in a research note. ?On the risk-side, AMD is trading near its ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:55

starts selling its new iPad on March 16, but some reviewers have had a chance to play with the third version of the company?s best-selling tablet, known only as the iPad (no numbers of modifiers this time around.) The verdict: they love it ??? though they do acknowledge that if you have last year?s iPad ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:55

Are PC sales headed for trouble? Jefferies analyst Peter Misek asserted in a research note early Thursday that headwinds to PC sales growth this year are growing. He sees PC units falling 3% this year, a far more pessimistic view that the Street consensus view of 5%-7% unit growth. Misek offers five reasons why demand ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:54

Being an entrepreneur is all about blazing new trails ??? something that simply cannot be done without a share of disappointments, embarrassments, and failures.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:24

The controversial Communist Party boss known for leading a revival of Maoist ideology and recently embroiled in a high-profile political intrigue has been ousted from his post. Bo Xilai has been removed as the Communist Party chief of Chongqing, according to a brief statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency. Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:24

Scott Goodson is the founder of??StrawberryFrog. His first book,??Uprising exploring Movement Marketing has been published by McGraw Hill. Imagine that out there, there is a company which knows all about you. It knows what you read. It knows when you read it. It knows how often you go online. And which sites you visit. It ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:24

The Internet is full of awesome "I quit" stories, but not much tops Greg Smith's departure from investment firm Goldman Sachs: he published his motives for leaving in the New York Times' op-ed section. One of his many reasons? "The environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it." Well, Darth Vader also agreed that he didn't like the change in the culture of his beloved Empire. So he too resigned.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 05:10

Earlier this week, a Google employee named William Chan published a post on Google Plus about the way his team was planning to solve some problems that the Chrome browser was having delivering Web addresses. The issues, and the solution, are highly technical. But they boil down to this: in order to deliver pages faster, ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 04:54

? The first blog post I wrote was about my biggest wastes of time while I was unemployed. Number three was, "Don't write a million cover letters."Conversely, the best use of my time was reaching out to contacts to set up informational interviews. According to the UCLA career center an informational interview is, "a highly ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 04:45