Norwest Venture Partners Goes Big [Voices]
All Things Digital Nov 19 09Norwest Venture Partners on Wednesday announced that it had closed a new venture-capital fund sized at $1.2 billion. That’s nearly double the size of the Silicon Valley venture firm’s last fund in 2006, which closed at $650 million. The new fund is unusual in this day and age amid a tough fundraising environment brought on by the recession. Full story...
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Was Google Ad Designed for Viral Mockery? "Parisian Oops," "Is Tiger Feeling Lucky Today"…What Next? [BoomTown]
All Things Digital 2 hours agoYesterday, the day after after Google aired its first national commercial on the Super Bowl, an exec at a rival Internet company marveled at what high favorable scores the "Parisian Love" advertisement got, adding that the possibilities of spoofs of it were also endless.
Intel's Itanium Again Marches to Different Drummer [Voices]
All Things Digital 3 hours agoIntel loves to talk about Moore’s Law, its co-founder’s famed maxim about how rapidly miniaturization improves semiconductors.
Reminder: Microsoft's WinMo on 18 Percent of US smartphones [Digital Daily]
All Things Digital 3 hours agoHere’s a metric to consider in advance of The Mobile World Congress next week and the likely debut of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile 7 operating system: As widely maligned as it is, Windows Mobile was still running on 18 percent of U.
A Big Music Veteran Explains Why Big Music Is Doomed [MediaMemo]
All Things Digital 4 hours agoA former Universal Music executive, now headed to Yahoo, explains concisely why his former employer and the other big guys are just playing out the string: CD sales are wasting away, and the digital boost they were counting on simply isn't big enough.
Better Times for VCs? Redpoint Raise $400 Million Fund Focused on Social, Mobile, Cloud and Clean [BoomTown]
All Things Digital 8 hours agoRedpoint Ventures announced that it had closed a new $400 million fund to invest in early-stage start-ups in the "social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces.
The iPhone is the New Internet Explorer 6, Says Mobile Developer [Voices]
All Things Digital 8 hours agoOn the flip side of the debate about whether Flash is ill, in rude health, or simply untroubled by Apple's wilful refusal to countenance it on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, we have an analysis from Peter-Paul Koch, a "mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer" who says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you're in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours.
‘Don’t Be Evil,’ Meet ‘Spy on Everyone’: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google [Voices]
All Things Digital 8 hours agoThe company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.
More Posner Plagiarism [Voices]
All Things Digital 8 hours agoLast week, a reader tipped me to an instance of potential plagiarism by Gerald Posner in the Daily Beast, for which Posner is chief investigative reporter.
Enterprise Software is Entirely Bereft of Soul [Voices]
All Things Digital 8 hours agoI was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software.
Philip Eliot Of Paladin Capital: Cyber Security Is Not Going Away [Voices]
All Things Digital 8 hours agoAs high-profile cyber attacks, like the one that recently hit Google Inc., become more common, Internet security is getting more attention at commercial organizations and especially in the government.
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