Online and IT privacy is a ripe issue for President Obama's or McCain's administration. It often takes a confluence of concerns and momentum to elevate an issue to the national forefront, and with privacy we have concerns related to targeted ads, ID theft, government snooping, electronic health records, and to [...]
According to the Register, “[t]he detente between Belgium's fractious regions is under strain again after the Flemish parliament demanded its own top-level domain. Instead of .be it wants vla, .vln, .vlaanderen or .fla. Kris Peeters, the prime minister of Flanders, says he will look into the possibility of creating [...]
Although the availability of patents, in general, certainly provides great benefits to small- and medium-sized enterprises and can level the playing field vis-à-vis much larger entities, recent news stories highlight how small and medium sized entities can sometimes find themselves at a disadvantage when it comes time to enter the [...]
PCMag.com’s Tim Bajarin predicts that “weak markets” will mean “big tech bargains.” This is because, according to Bajarin, people stay in more during economic downturns, meaning that they will be more willing to buy home entertainment products such as HDTVs and gaming systems and software. “With that in mind,” Bajarin [...]
Here is the "Good Times: RIP" Presentation from Sequoia Capital that was mentioned yesterday. Too there is no audio track, but it does a great job of explaining the current situation without it. Thank you to Venture Beat for posting it. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturnView SlideShare [...]