Tech Week in Review 4-15-2011
Cisco Kills the Flip Camcorder Cisco bought Pure Digital, the company behind the Flip, for $590 million two years ago. On Tuesday, Cisco announced they would be shutting down that whole division and laying off 550 people. Nobody really knows what happened, but most tech folks immediately jumped on the fact that most smartphones these [...]
Read MoreWeb 2.0 Expo is Looking for Speakers, Will You Answer the Call?
If you’ve ever been to a tech convention, the makeup is usually the same — predominantly white with patches of minorities scattered throughout. While we’ve been making gains at conferences like SXSW Interactive, there’s always room for improvement, especially when it comes to the panels. Instead of conducting the same black panel year in an [...]
Read MoreVote! Black Startup Demo Event for Internet Week NY #VoteBlackStartups
Internet Week New York take place in the first week of June. It’s actually a festival which creates a “critical mass of web-focused events that raises the profile of NYC’s industry as a whole, as well as the partners who participate.” They are allowing panel submissions for the main AOL stage, which will be streamed [...]
Read MoreQ1 Venture Capital Funding Close to Pre-Recession Levels
Spring is here an the air is ripe with opportunity — especially for startups. If you’re an entrepreneur searching for funding, this could be year. According to private investment research firm CB Insights, the first quarter of the year saw funding levels almost matching pre-recession levels. In fact, there was $7.5 billion of venture capital funding invested [...]
Read MoreFlipboard to Feature Oprah Content on Front Page
Starting Thursday, the Oprah Winfrey Network and Oprah.com will claim an official “Oprah” section on Flipboard, the iPad app that turns your social stream into a magazine. Based on her Twitter feed, the Oprah section will include content from print sources like O, The Oprah Magazine and OWN, in addition to videos counting down her farewell [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft Unveils Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview
At the Mix 11 conference Tuesday, Microsoft surprised attendees by introducing the Internet Explorer 10 platform preview. This comes just weeks after the launch of Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch said during his keynote at Mix 11 that IE10 builds on the native HTML5 support in IE9, which will lead to long-term adoption of [...]
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