The smartphone industry is moving to follow the same path of the personal computer (PC). Both industries have a lot of manufacturers. For example, Dell for computers and Motorola for smartphone. PC and smartphones have operating systems. For PC, the major OS is Windows and … Read More →
Tag Archives: Web
Nomaine.com – Interesting Domain Name Tool
It is so hard to come up with a nice name for startup or new blog when most of the basic names are all registered. Then, most people come up with strange or too creative names to their website which are hard to search. But … Read More →
Bookhu – Top books for women and men
Bookhu is a book review website that shows if a book is read more by men or women. It is a food for thought website. It shows if I have more male or female preference. In my searches, most of my books related to entrepreneurship, … Read More →
Zynga gets another $180 million, expect more game addicts on Facebook
Zynga is the company responsible for all those spam like games, such as FarmVille or MafiaWars. All these games are targeted to Facebook and they make money by showing advertisements. All these social type of games target the very basic human emotion of achievement. Most … Read More →
Should Google censor information on behalf of governments?
I was reading this news Google Faces A Different World in Italy from the New York Times and it is about Google’s criminal charges related to privacy in Italy. A senior executive in Italy may get to jail because of an outcry over an online video … Read More →
Canada’s Venture Capital Firms – December 2009
Thanks for Dan M., JS C., Mark E. and Tim T. for your suggestions! This is a complete list of all the VC firms in Canada. JS made a good suggestion of adding of which firms invested in the last 12 months. I will add … Read More →
Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World
I wonder what people in each of the high Internet speed market do.
Venture Capital Firms in Canada – November 2009
This is a complete list of all the VC firms in Canada. = A must see. = A firm dedicated mostly in early stage companies. VC firms only AVAC Ltd. Avrio Ventures Management Corp. Brightspark Capital Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Venture Capital … Read More →
Smartphone: the next PC industry
There is a news from the CNET that tells that Smartphones and low-cost handsets will keep dominating the wireless market. The post tells that despite the fact of economic downturn, demand for smartphone remained high and this category grew 27% compared to the same quarter … Read More →
Article: Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists?
There is a very interesting article about this question: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/do-web-entrepreneurs-still-need-venture-capitalists/ It basically says that given the lower cost to create web companies, the current venture capital model may not be attractive enough for those web entrepreneurs. It gives some examples such as the iPhone Apps developers … Read More →
What’s the latest market valuation for Facebook?
Some highlights: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg just had a board-level conversation about possibly accepting money at a $4 billion valuation, but decided against doing so… Also, the company has more than $200 million in the bank, which is enough to cover its costs … Read More →
QuantumWhisper.com – The Missing Link Between User Feedback and Code
I met with Barry Pâquet and I was very impressed and amazed by his story of how he started up his company. He was working as a consultant for another software company and eventually, he had a great opportunity to come up with a product … Read More →