Inflated Tech Valuations? Blame Uncle Sam : Tech News « Are technology startup valuations in the middle of another bubble? The New York Times stoked the debate last month when it quoted famed venture capitalists John Doerr and Fred Wilson, who were seemingly agreeing that it is. One area of tech investing that seems especially “bubble-icious” is the secondary market where investors trade shares of private companies. Last week, Bloomberg reported on a study by Nyppex LLC, a broker for secondary transactions, which found that valuations of private, VC-backed tech companies on the secondary market have risen a whopping 54 percent since June. Light volume is part of the reason for the run-up in prices; the market simply isn’t liquid. I’m quoted in the Bloomberg article noting that the likes of Yelp, Zynga, and LinkedIn are great companies, so it’s natural there would be strong demand on the secondary market for their shares. The weak stock market remains a challenge. Eric M. Image provided courtesy of Flickr user Tinou Bao.
How to enable Windows 8 Metro style apps on an older netbook Update: The guide below was written for Windows 8 Developer Preview and will not work with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview released on February 29th, 2012. But you can still enable Metro style apps on Windows 8 Consumer Preview — you just need to download a graphics driver that lets you adjust your screen resolution from the Intel download center. If you have a netbook with an Intel Atom N270 or N280 processor, after installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview, search for the download center for the latest graphics driver for GMA 950. If you’re using a netbook with an Intel Atom N450, N455, N550, or N570 chip then you’ll need a driver for GMA 3150 graphics. Original article: Windows 8 features a new user interface designed for touch-friendly devices such as tablets. Unfortunately that rules out almost every netbook ever made, since most netbooks have 1024 x 600 pixel or lower resolution displays. 1. From the Windows 8 Start Screen, just start typing “regedit” without the quotes. 2. 3. 4.
File Sharing With OS X 10.5 - Share Mac Files with Windows XP Setting up Leopard (OS X 10.5) to share files with a PC running Windows XP is a fairly straightforward process, but like any networking task, it's helpful to understand how the underlying process works. Beginning with Leopard, Apple reconfigured the way Windows file sharing is set up. Instead of having separate Mac file sharing and Windows file sharing control panels, Apple placed all file sharing processes in one system preference, making it easy to set up and configure file sharing. In ‘File Sharing With OS X 10.5 - Share Mac Files with Windows XP’ we will take you through the entire process of configuring your Mac to share files with a PC. We'll also describe some of the basic issues you may encounter along the way. What You Will Need A Mac running OS X 10.5 or later.
A Snapshot Of Zynga’s Financials: Revenues Grew 392 Percent Last Year To $600 Million Zynga finally filed for its IPO today, and we now we get to take a look at its financials. At a high level, the company made nearly $600 million in revenues last year, and $90 million in profits. It grew at an incredible pace, with revenues growing 392 percent in 2010, up from $121.5 million in 2009 (and up from $19 million in 2008). In just the first quarter of 2011 alone, the company’s revenues reached $235 million (or a $940 million revenue run-rate), and that was up 134 percent from the first quarter of 2010. What is particularly amazing about all of these revenue growth numbers is that Zynga started paying Facebook 30 percent of all Facebook Credits-related revenues starting in July, 2010, and only barely skipped a beat. Sequential revenue growth slowed from 32 percent in Q3 2010 to 15 percent in Q4 2010, but then accelerated again to 20 percent growth in Q1 2011. The good news for investors is that Zynga actually makes a profit. Here is how Zynga explains Bookings in the S-1:
How to Install Windows 8 Consumer Preview 8250 Download Instructions Here are tips on how to install the Windows 8 RTM (Release to Manufacturer), or regular version. How to Get Started with Microsoft Windows 8 Traps When Installing Windows 8 Although installing any version of Windows is straightforward, there are three tiny traps to avoid: Trap 1: Get the product key! Confession: This was a case of more haste less speed, a combination of tiredness and over-excitement caused me to type the Sha-1 hash numbers instead of the product key! Trap 2: Be patient during first 4 minutes. Trap 3: Go for a clean install. Plan How to Install Your Windows 8 Operating System Research a URL to download the Windows 8 .iso file. Alternative install method: Try the web based installer which incorporates the Upgrade adviser and Easy transfer wizard. System Requirements for Windows 8 Recommendations: Install Windows 8 in a Virtual Machine, or alternatively, use an old laptop as a test machine. Good News: These Virtual Machines Are Supported Windows 8 Downloads Post-installation
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Bodhi Linux The following are instructions for installing Bodhi Linux on to your computer from a working Linux system via a USB stick (also known as a thumb-drive). This is the recommended method. Installation using another operating system or via CD/DVD is also possible, but not covered here. Bodhi Linux utilizes a Live Environment which you lets you “try before you buy” - that is, you can use Bodhi Linux without actually installing it. A: Materials needed Before beginning, you will need the following things: - A computer (imagine that! B: Get Bodhi Linux 2) Click on the version you wish to download (32 bit works on most computers) 3) Click the Direct Download link. C: Verify File Integrity (optional) 2) Save the file to the same location that you saved the Bodhi Linux .iso file. 3) Open a terminal emulator (xterm for example) 4) Switch to the directory where you downloaded the files (/storage/ISOs in this example - adjust the location to where you downloaded to): cd /storage/ISOs bodhi_1.4.0.iso: ok
OSX in Virtual Box How to create a Hackintoshed Virtualbox What you’ll need. An AMD or Intel system that supports hardware virtualization. The newest Virtualbox (get it off of filehippo.com). An OSX86 iso, Get it off of torrents if you don’t have one. After you have the above mentioned files install Virtualbox. Open up Virtualbox and click on New at the top left. At the Create New Virtual Machine window, click Next. At this window type OSX as the name and it will automatically change the system and version. If you can spare it crank it up as far as you can go but 1024MB should be sufficient. This is where you’ll make your hard disk. 20GB should be enough so what it comes down to is dynamic or static. This is the settings you configured. Now click on the Storage button on the left. At this window click Add (Plus sign on 3 CD’s) at the top. Now this is where you’ll install your OSX in Vbox! At this point click inside the window and hit F8. At this screen highlight 20GB VBOX HARDDISK.
Microsoft, Intel, Cisco (MIC) – Can The Troika Grow Again? (Part 2) Having discussed Microsoft in part 1 of this article , we will now examine its main hardware partner, Intel. Intel The Wintel combination has dominated the PC era since its beginning, and continues until today. Hence, no wonder when Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT [FREE Stock Trend Analysis] ) stalls, so does Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ). In essence, both companies were attacked by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ), who tried to make the PC obsolete. However, Microsoft is a software company, while Intel is a semiconductor company, so their businesses are very different, and the challenges for them are quite different. Some of the notable differences are: On a PC, Intel can sell only 1 set of CPU, or chipset for each PC (or more specifically, a Wintel platform), but Microsoft can sell multiple set of programs, such as its operating system, its Office Suite, PC games, etc. (c) 2013 Benzinga.com.