Tech Town, NC

Boxee, the free, open-source software that turns your TV into a socially-networked media hub, recently launched the Windows Alpha version of their software and I am lucky enough to be a part of it. Upon some testing of it my overall impression is very good, but the service raises all kinds of questions that [...]

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Nick Denton says media is doomed (in the near to mid-term).
Adeo Ressi says the VC model is broken.
Nouriel Roubini has been saying for a while now that the US is nearly bankrupt.
Call them all pessimists, but they’re having their day right now, Roubini especially. When everyone else wants to say “Things are bad, BUT…” [...]

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I’d missed the last few Social entrepreneur meetups with vacation and work, but I’m glad I attended this one. We were treated to four strong presentations and lots of new faces. The crowd continues to diversify in all respects, most notably in terms of age, attracting a larger share of more mature entrepreneurs [...]

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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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Ryan Allis, the Triangle area wunderkind, iContact CEO, and host of some of the best meetups in the land wants to add another item to his resume – Bestselling Author. Ryan’s written a book called “Zero to One Million” about how he built a company (two companies actually) to the level of $1 million [...]

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Multiple sources are not reporting on the additional money raised by Facebook’s recent round of financing. The rumor-cum-story is that two New York Hedge Funds have also pitched in for the same 1.6 percent share that Microsoft acquired. That brings the total financing up to about 750 million, a number that had been [...]

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