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Tech deal news: Intel's income plummets; Obama narrows CTO choice; Betaworks backs Tweetdeck; and more

Obama to choose Cisco CTO or D.C. CTO President-elect Barack Obama has narrowed the field for the new federal chief technology officer job down to two candidates, BusinessWeek reports. Padmasree Warrior (pictured, left) comes...


Video: Unigo's Jordan Goldman on tapping students to critique colleges

When you think of college guidebooks, Jordan Goldman's name may not be the first that comes to mind, but the scrappy New York City native has been competing with well-known media properties, including U.S. News &...


Video: Iminlikewithyou's Charles Forman on selling virtual goods

Casual game site Iminlikewithyou will soon start selling virtual goods, founder and CEO Charles Forman (pictured) tells Tech Confidential in our Behind the Money video interview.Games on the mulitplayer site, such...


RRE Ventures reaches out to next generation of entrepreneurs

RRE Ventures may be the best-kept secret of the East Coast venture capital community. The prestigious New York VC firm, which was established nearly 15 years ago, is well known...


Services partnerships help Betaworks tweak incubator model

Incubators are known for getting economies of scale for basic services, such as accounting and payroll, but Betaworks seems to be taking the concept a step further. The New York...


Betaworks entrepreneurs rub elbows with tech dealmakers at Betaday

Entrepreneurs backed by New York incubator Betaworks got an enviable opportunity Tuesday to pitch their startups to more than 50 of the best-known names in tech dealmaking from major media and advertising companies, established technology...


Lack of exits frustrates VCs, says RRE Ventures' Stuart Ellman

Although the credit crunch affects venture capitalists only indirectly, "the real frustration for VCs is the lack of exits," blogs Stuart Ellman, co-founder of RRE Ventures, a New York VC...


Details says David Karp and Charles Forman love the night life

Tech Confidential is certainly the right place to get all the details about the product strategies, business models, venture capital fundings and investment strategies involving high-profile Web 2.0 entrepreneurs David Karp (founder...


Exclusive: Micropayments startup Tipjoy raises first VC round

Betaworks, a New York incubator that both develops Web 2.0 technology and invests in startups doing the same, is leading a roughly $1 million Series A in micropayments processor Tipjoy...


Twitter's Biz Stone says startup is working to fix "horrible user experience"

Twitter Inc. plans to offer more tools for people developing programs that run on top of the microblogging service, as well as more options for people trying to use those...


Update: FriendFeed releases SUP details ahead of sked

FriendFeed Inc. is releasing details about its technique for increasing the frequency of updates from RSS feeds, co-founder Paul Buchheit tells Tech Confidential Wednesday evening. Originally, Buchheit had planned to make FriendFeed's proposal for Simple...


EXCLUSIVE: FriendFeed readying RSS accelerator

Update, 7:30 p.m.: FriendFeed Inc. co-founder Paul Buchheit has published a detailed explanation of the social networking aggregator's planned Simple Update Protocol. In a nutshell, he describes it as a...


Meetup's Heiferman on how he'll spend USV's money

"We're using the round of funding to ramp up the technology to give people better tools for self-organizing groups," says Meetup Inc. CEO Scott Heiferman about the backing the six-year-old New...


Twitter acquires Summize, first exit for Betaworks

Twitter Inc. has indeed acquired New York conversation search engine startup Summize Inc., confirming a rumor that Tech Confidential had previously reported on. Terms are undisclosed."Providing tools for filtering all...


Iminlikewithyou actually has a business model

Iminlikewithyou may not have any revenue yet, but founder and CEO Charles Forman tells Tech Confidential he has a business model he will soon execute -- unlike many a Web...


Iminlikewithyou is indeed "the next David Karp"

It's official: Charles Forman, founder of Iminlikewithyou, emailed us Thursday evening with a link to Spark Capital Bijan Sabet's blog post announcing funding for the gaming startup."I'm thrilled to announce...


Steven Johnson, Mark Josephson on Outside.in's change of guard

Steven Johnson, co-founder and co-creator of "hyperlocal" site Outside.in, is stepping down as CEO, passing the baton, as he puts it, to Mark Josephson (right), the former general manager of About.com and, more recently, the president of ad network...


Someecards founders quit day jobs, seek tech lead

When is it time to quit your day job? If you're Someecards Inc. co-founders Duncan Mitchell and Brook Lundy (pictured, left and right), the answer is when your Web site starts drawing...


Betaworks under the microscope

Betaworks might be the most influential early-stage investment firm no one's ever heard of. If it's take on Web 2.0 is right, that's sure to change. Tech Confidential takes...


Tumblr Inc. 21-year-old founder David Karp following in Steve Jobs' footsteps

  Like many a Web 2.0 entrepreneur, David Karp hopes his product will be used by millions of people one day. But unlike other ambitious founders, the 21-year-old founder of micro-blogging tool maker Tumblr...



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