Tech Town, NC

For some reason there is a meme going around that Google is a “natural monopoly,” but no one has made a convincing case on why that is. Henry Blodget compares them to Microsoft’s natural monopoly in operating systems, but never supports this claim. He simply states that they “should continue to appraoch…” […]

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Adam Ostrow gives credit where credit is due by lauding a couple big steals in the world of web 2.0 acquisitions: MySpace and Flickr. When Mr. Murdoch bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005 many thought he had lost his mind. In retrospect, that was chump change.
Microsoft has ponied up about half of […]

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There is ample talk about what lies ahead for Microsoft and Yahoo, with some people even putting their money on another advance by Mr. Ballmer. With a $50 billion offer recently shelved it’s a valid question sot ask - How will Microsoft now employ that money to get some sort of return on it?
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Twitter, an absolute obsession, nay, a way of life for some, is not even on the radar for many people outside Silicon Valley. The root of this lies in the fact that Silicon Valley is the first to know about new technology, either by word of mouth or by targeting of PR and marketing […]

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Mobile social networking has had more false starts than most “next wave” technologies, with the mild successes of dodgeball, jaiku, twitter, and LimeJuice. But so far they’ve been a mixed bag. Yes, Jaiku was acquried by Google, which is always cool, but did anyone really use it? And yes, Twitter almost qualifies […]

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This is not breaking news, but one of the Triangle’s most successful tech startups, Motricity, is moving their headquarters at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham for the greener pastures of Bellevue, Washington. Motricity has been both a symbol of the kind of success tech companies can have in the Triangle area, and of […]

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Marc Andreesson has a truly sunny post today about the outlook for startups in a post YHOO world. Some people are bemoaning the potential loss of a silicon valley stalwart that helped set the playful tone for companies that came after it, especially one that did so much for the advancement of exclamation points […]

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Fred Wilson nailed this with “You had to see this coming.” Just after Yahoo disappointed everyone with its earnings and the stock dipped a good 8% I thought to myself, “now might be a good time to buy some YHOO.” Turns out I was right, as the stock is now worth about […]

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