How to Be an Effective CEO This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . First-time entrepreneurs are usually also first-time CEOs. When you look at your first business card that says CEO, don't fo 07-22-2009 by point24 Tags business, google, startup 101
Dice Reports Murky Waters For Tech Jobs After months of dismal unemployment numbers, this morning’s continued growth in the unemployment rate from 9.4% in May to 9.5% for the month of June reinforces the fact that the U.S. is still very much in the midst of recession. Additionally, the U. 07-22-2009 by point24 Tags dice.com, google
news? So you've probably heard that Google is launching its own Operating System, based on the Chrome web browser, a custom windowing system, and the Linux kernel, that will “start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds” . See the rest here: XLAB Tec 07-12-2009 by randallmark Tags archive, blog, chrome, google, news, tech
Google Announces the Google Chrome Operating System We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news , shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were . View original post 07-12-2009 by randallmark Tags announces, google, operating, system
(Not So) Shocking News Yes, it is my blog and my opinion, and I just wanted to say I told you so :) In all seriousness, this is not a surprising move for Google as they have been trying to get on the desktop for what seems like an eternity. Read the original post: (Not . 07-12-2009 by randallmark Tags announces, chrome, geek, google, news
Stealth Startup Udorse Raises $500k From Founders Fund Udorse , a New York-based startup currently in stealth, has raised a $500,000 round of seed funding from Founders Fund . Founders Fund’s Peter Thiel will be serving on the company’s board of directors. At this point we know very little about t 07-09-2009 by point24 Tags google, udorse
Google ends comments feature in Google News Google dropped a feature that allowed people quoted in articles in Google News to post comments on those articles. Read more from the original source: Google ends comments feature in Google News 07-07-2009 by randallmark Tags google, news
Google News No Longer Wants Newsmaker's Comments In August 2007, Google News released a feature to allow newsmakers to add comments to stories found in Google News That feature has gone away very. Original post: Google News No Longer Wants Newsmaker's Comments 07-07-2009 by randallmark Tags google, news, newsmaker
Walkman! Posted by Ryan Sands, Google News Online Team Thirty years ago this week, Sony introduced the first Walkman to consumers in Japan. Released on July 1, 1979, the model TPS-L2 was the first in a long history of portable stereo devices The rest is here: 07-07-2009 by randallmark Tags anniversary, backward, blog, google, happy, news
Nokia N97 Hands On Nokia is a in a really weird place right now. They’re the #1 handset manufacturer in the world, yet we’d all be lying if we said they didn’t have to work to stay there. RIM and Apple are the new wonder boys and they are steadily stealing 07-06-2009 by point24 Tags 5 megapixel, apple, bg's corner, edge, google, gprs, gsm, nokia, wi-fi, windows
Google News May Add Wikipedia as a Source Some users are being shown links to Wikipedia articles about current events clustered in the lists of sources on Google News , Google confirmed today. Those collaboratively written and edited pages will now sit side by side with professional news reportin 07-04-2009 by point24 Tags google, professional news, wikipedia
Facebook is Getting Vanity URLs: Get Yours on Saturday at 12:01am EDT We heard rumors about this for at least the last couple of weeks, but today, Facebook finally announced that it will allow users to pick and choose their own vanity URLs. Instead of http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=432123451 , you will now be able t 07-02-2009 by point24 Tags facebook, google
A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad) It seems that even in this downturn, there is still room for tech IPOs, at least in Japan. Cookpad , the nation’s biggest site for sharing recipes, today announced it will be listed in the “Mothers” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on 07-02-2009 by point24 Tags cookpad, google, launch
Reasons to blog Almost everybody in this world has heard about blogs. Blogs have become very popular because they offered people a new chance to express their feelings and 07-01-2009 by akymro Tags blog, blogging, community, google, internet
Is Zipcar planning an IPO? Depends who you ask A bit of a kerfluffle has sprung up around car-sharing service Zipcar , and whether Bloomberg misquoted chief executive Scott Griffith that he’s planning an initial public offering for 2010. You’d think it would be a relatively easy dispute to 06-16-2009 by point24 Tags google
Solazyme wins big with $57M for renewable oil Solazyme , producer of renewable oil derived from algae, just raised $57 million in third-round funding to bring its total capital to more than $76 million . In addition to producing so-called green fuels, the San Bruno, Calif. company is expanding its ec 06-13-2009 by point24 Tags business, google, mic
Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook Announced I think of this as a love story, began Chris Vander Mey, Senior Product Manager at Google, as he announced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook , a plug-in that syncs Outlook with Apps, much like Outlook syncs with Exchange. But love? Not so much. Googl 06-10-2009 by point24 Tags apps, google, mic, microsoft
Just Orb » Blog Archive » What the hell They've been making changes to Google News for about a week now, and it's not bad looking, so no complaints about that, but the fact I had a number of “ news alerts” (specific searches) set to appear on my Google News page that are now . See the ori 05-22-2009 by randallmark Tags archive, blog, google, hell, just, what