Surviving the Economic Forest Fire

As the sub-prime mortgage market continues to drive down housing prices, so goes consumer spending. As most of you may know consumer spending is a key catalyst helping to propel the booming online advertising industry. As consumer companies are forced to reassess budget allocations, one of the first casualties in corporate budgets is usually [...]

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The Money Trail 6-27-2008

San Francisco, Seesmic Says ‘Why Not?’ To $6M More Just four months after closing its Series A funding, video chat company Seesmic Inc. has raised $6 million in Series B financing from E-Bay Co Founders “Omidyar Network” and Wellington Partners. http://www.seesmic.com

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SXSW Podcast- Where Are The Black Tech Bloggers?

SXSW has finally released the much anticipated panel “Where are the Black Tech Bloggers?” The panel, moderated by Lynne D. Johnson, was an insightful open dialog about racism in technology with some of the brightest minds in tech blogging.

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Microsoft Releases Preview of New of Robotics Platform, and new portal called robochamps

Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools. Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation and [...]

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