Web 2.0 Services Shutting Out Developing Countries

In a particularly infuriating Article, the New York Times sites developing countries as the toughest places to monetize web traffic for web services like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. The article makes the argument that countries in South America, parts of Asia and Africa, are particularly hard to monetize due to the increased costs of serving [...]

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Weekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008

Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]

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The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

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Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

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Zuora announces SAAS billing platform

I got an email a few days ago from a colleague Jeff Yoshimora, letting me know he had left a senior position with the Salesforce.com incubator to join a SAAS billing start up in Palo Alto named “Zuora“. I was curious to say the least, so after snooping around on the site [...]

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“The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites”

I recently read an interesting article about web services, and how “The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites”, and I must admit, it put a big smile on my face. As most of you know, several start-ups I have been involved with in last few years have pretty much “bet the house” on web [...]

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