Tag: Silicon Valley
EBay hires ex-Thomson Reuters executive Wenig (Reuters)
September 8th, 2011, No Comments
Sign displayed at the headquarters of eBay in San Jose SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – eBay Inc. hired former Thomson Reuters Corp. Executive Devin Wenig as president of the global markets unit, online commerce and auction site's largest division. Wenig, 44, was CEO of Thomson Reuters Markets, one of its executives before he announced a shakeup [...]
In Silicon Valley, the Night Is Still Young
August 21st, 2011, No Comments
LET the rest of the country worry about a double-dip recession. Tech land, stretching from San Jose to San Francisco, is in a time warp, and times here are still flush. Even now, technology types in their 20s and 30s are dropping a million-plus each on modest ranch houses in Palo Alto in Silicon Valley [...]
AP Source: Google among firms looking to buy Hulu (AP)
July 2nd, 2011, No Comments
Los Angeles – Internet search giant Google Inc. is one of a dozen companies involved in talks to possibly buy the online video site Hulu, a person familiar with the matter on Friday. As the owner of YouTube, it would be a strategic purchase for the company of Silicon Valley technology, which has had a [...]
Zynga files for IPO, surfs Facebook wave (Reuters)
July 2nd, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Zynga Inc, developer of popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, could be the best proxy for investing in Facebook until the world's largest social network goes public itself. Zynga filed with regulators on Friday for an initial public offering of up to $1 billion, emphasizing that its relationship [...]
Yahoo! board re-elected, Bartz comes under fire (AFP)
June 24th, 2011, No Comments
Yahoo! board re-elected, Bartz comes under fire SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz defended her turnaround efforts at the Internet pioneer Thursday and won the endorsement of the company's chairman and shareholders. But Yahoo!'s annual gathering of shareholders ended on a dark note when an investor challenged Bartz to explain the company's [...]
Marvell to invest $200 million in Israeli R&D (Reuters)
May 22nd, 2011, No Comments
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Silicon Valley chip designer Marvell Technology said it was investing $ 200 million in Israel to accelerate research and development of critical communications, cellular and systems-on-chip technology. Marvell, which supplies chips for Research in Motion's Blackberrys, has two R & D center in Israel, which employs more than 1,200 people. "Recently, [...]
Yahoo, Alibaba: We’re “committed to” negotiations (AP)
May 16th, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK – Yahoo and Alibaba Group Inc. issued a joint statement Sunday saying they are "committed and engaged in productive negotiations," providing details, but the goal of presenting a united front that the tension grows between the two giants technology. Silicon Valley, Yahoo owns 43 percent of Alibaba, a powerful Internet company in China, [...]
Stop the Cloud, I Want to Get Off! (PC World)
May 1st, 2011, No Comments
Remember when the "cloud" was just called the "Internet?" This absurd fascination with naming online services after suspended atmospheric condensation is kind of driving me nuts. For around 14 years, millions of people have used Hotmail, but they didn't use a "cloud email solution." When we were all ripping our CDs a decade ago and [...]
Amazon wrangling with online hosting woes (AFP)
April 25th, 2011, No Comments
Amazon fights online accommodation problems SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Amazon Friday was still discussing with problems in their Web hosting service, used by four squares, Quran, Reddit and other popular sites. Amazon EC2 were slowly being restored one day after the emergence of issues of concern, but it may take some time to recover fully, [...]
Reppler helps Facebook users look good online (AFP)
April 7th, 2011, No Comments
Reppler helps Facebook users look good online SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Startup Reppler launched a service Tuesday to help people shine on Facebook pages that have become resources checked by employers, college recruiters and even potential mates. Reppler warns Facebook users about pictures or written posts that might hurt their images, highlights public information best [...]
