Tech Town, NC

The ongoing YouTube experiment (financed by Google) continues as the buyer tries to find ways to monetize the content. Today, for the first time, I noticed a new sort of ad that appeared as a banner at the bottom of a video I was watching. The video happened to be one of the “promoted” videos [...]

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This week Google unveiled a new feature on the Google Maps platform. No, not My Maps, that was ages ago. No, not street view either. It’s user reviews for local businesses. Now when you search a business you can click a “more info” link to read user reviews (assuming someone has taken the time to [...]

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I’m a bit late on this one but it only happens once a year, so this list won’t change for another 51 weeks anyway. These types of “Top Company” lists are tough to pin down in the specifics (who ws at 51?) but in a general way they give a nice overview of what’s happening [...]

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Orlando-based PayPerPost closed a second round of financing this week worth $7 million. TechJournal South reports that the round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, who were joined by Inflexion Partners, Village Ventures, and DFJ Gothmam. DFJ is the only new investor and their Managing Director, Josh Stein, becomes part of the PayPerPost Board in [...]

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