A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about. This week: We caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies at the San Francisco NewTeeVee Live conference. Elemental Technologies hopes to become a major player in the future of online and over-the-air video through their high-performance encoding technology. Full story...
The crowd-sourced recommendations site led by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon gets a big vote of confidence from a high-profile investor.
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Earlier this week, BoomTown had lunch with Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi, the high-profile tech exec who turned into a VC recently at Index Ventures.
A Chinese minister made the government's strongest statement yet on Google Inc.'s future in the country, warning that the U.
Google and Apple may fighting each other on multiple fronts, but they're deeply linked, too. Another example: Apple is filling up Google search results with the content of its iTunes store.
Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are overhauling their lines of chips for server systems at a rare time—just as corporate customers' appetite for new technology finally seems to be improving.
BoomTown is always up at 5:30 am PT, but now I will apparently be joined by twitch-fingered Apple fanboys, waiting for the iPad pre-order rush to begin this morning.
Do you like Twitter's chances? Then you'll like Betaworks, a holding company that builds and invests in the Twitter ecosystem.
I'm writing this at around 36,000 feet, on a United Airlines flight between New York and San Francisco.