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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Last week we gave you our latest take on the public market for technology stocks. Now let’s look at what’s going on in the private markets.
Tech start-up bubble won’t get any bigger - John Shinal's Tech Investor - MarketWatch
“Serendipity: The Hope and the Myth” - Oli Shaw at London IA
At London IA last week, Oli Shaw was reprising his EuroIA talk about serendipity.
From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later - CSMonitor.com
One year ago a malicious software program called Stuxnet exploded onto the world stage as the first publicly confirmed cyber superweapon – a digital guided missile that could emerge from cyber space to destroy a physical target in the real world.
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Google's Negative Ranking Factors - Whiteboard Friday | SEOmoz
Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action | The New Everyday
Taken as a whole, Anonymous resists straightforward definition as it is a name currently called into being to coordinate a range of disconnected actions, from trolling to political protests. Originally a name used to coordinate Internet pranks, in the winter of 2008 some wings of Anonymous also became political, focusing on protesting the abuses of the Church of Scientology. By September 2010 another distinct political arm emerged as Operation Payback and did so to protest the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ), and a few months later this arm shifted its energies to Wikileaks, as did much of the world's attention.
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NeuroFocus Uses Neuromarketing to Hack Your Brain | Fast Company
What do you get when you mix Google's complex search algorithm with rampant reputational concerns and a nascent industry offering to placate nervous CEOs fretting over seeing their head shots listed in search results for the latest scandal? Answer: The shady underworld of the growing online-reputation-management industry. Scant data exist as to the size of this market , but there is little doubt that business is booming.
Online-Reputation-Management Firms Struggle With Ethics | Guest Columnists - Advertising Age
Value Of Tech M&A Deals Nearly Doubled In Q2 2011 To $52.1 Billion | TechCrunch
While tech company IPOs have captured buzz of late, it looks like M&A activity in the sector has been booming.Since the fall of 2008, LPs haven’t shown much appetite for stakes in either venture capital or buyout firms.
LPs Haven’t Hit the Brakes, But They’re Getting Just as Worried as the Rest of Us
Exclusive: SEC Will Likely Toughen Rules for Secondary Markets
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials in March met with secondary market executives to warn them of impending regulatory changes, peHUB has learned. The regulators told the executives that they want more stringent checks of individuals’ accreditation and improved diligence regarding the financials of companies being auctioned to investors, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.
A few weeks ago, Google was involved in bidding for 6,000 patents being offered by Nortel, which many thought if Google should win, would beef up their defense against patent litigation.
Google throws a tantrum -- accuses Microsoft, others, of "hostile, organized campaign" | wpcentral | Windows Phone News, Forums, and Reviews
Every other day a tired banker leaves Wall Street to start a company. Incubators like DogPatch Labs and General Assembly are housing dozens of entrepreneurs and helping them get off the ground. TechStars NYC applicants jumped from 600 to 1,000 and TechCrunch's Mike Arrington said he's most proud of the NYC 2011 Disrupt startups.
The 25 Hot New York City Startups You Need To Watch
Funding: $1.5 M lead by Founders Fund, including 500 Startups, David Cowan, Keith Rabois, Ron Conway, Mark Goines, Founder Collective, Felicis Ventures, PivotNorth, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, Shervin Pishevar, and Tom Shields. Why You Should Care: Votizen has proved to be a powerful tool that can actually get bills passed via social media. "The startup sprung, in part, from the success of a Votizen-powered Twitter campaign earlier this year that was held in support of the Startup Visa .
20 Silicon Valley Startups To Watch
With all the hullabaloo surrounding Bitcoin and, in particular, Bitcoin exchanges it’s a ripe time for new players to enter into the market and wow people involved in the peer-to-peer virtual currency market.
Fast-Growing Bitcoin Exchange Ruxum to Begin Trading in European Currencies | SiliconANGLE
Welcome to the age of the splinternet - tech - 20 July 2011 - New Scientist
How quickly the world changes. In August 1991 Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, posted a message to a discussion forum detailing a new method for sharing information between networked computers. To make his idea a reality, he also set up a server running on one of CERN's computers.Interesting Apps
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