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Video: Allen Stern offers advice for entrepreneurs in NYC and beyond

"I'm a big public transportation buff so I'll use an analogy from the subway," says New Yorker Allen Stern, founder of the popular CenterNetworks tech blog, in The Deal's Behind the Money...


Stimulus plan gives $37B to tech; Kevin Rose offers Twitter tips; Bill Gates talks about his new job

Stimulus plan to spur computerized medical records, smart grids and Internet access Tech startups may benefit from the federal stimulus plan. The $825 billion plan presented by House Democrats calls...


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...


Q&A with Greycroft's Drew Lipsher on the VC model, capital efficiency, early-stage investing and global opportunities

As the year draws to a close, Tech Confidential interviews prominent investors on the evolution of the venture capital business and how VCs are responding to the economic crisis. Kicking...


Union Square, Spark Capital back media center software maker Boxee

Frequent co-investors Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital are teaming up again to invest a reported $4 million in Boxee, a startup that makes the "Firefox of media center software," as Wilson describes it...


Jeffrey Tinsley on revamping Reunion.com, buying Wink, finding people

Reunion.com's acquisition of people search engine Wink Technologies Inc. is part of a broader strategy to revamp the company's business, CEO and founder Jeffrey Tinsley (pictured) tells Tech Confidential. The...


Richard Stallman joins Larry Ellison in calling cloud computing 'gibberish'

Oracle Corp. [ORCL] CEO Larry Ellison isn't the only one who says cloud computing is "gibberish." Now the approach, which delivers computing power over the Internet as you need it...


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...


Twitter shows that less can be more (so burn this "blog")

The surest clue of Twitter's importance is that, despite (or perhaps because of) its enormous popularity, people can't agree on what the hell it is. A case in point is Mashable's screed...


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...


Seesmic buys Twitter client Twhirl

Seesmic, a service that makes it easy for people to have informal video conversations over the Internet and that recently raised $6 million from some of the most well-known tech investors in the...


Calacanis 'big fan' of Ning, Twitter, ThisNext

"Ning and Twitter: If I could be CEO of any two companies aside from the one I'm currently CEO of, which is obviously the one I'm the most fond of,...


Video exclusive: Jason Calacanis says he loves his work, and so should you

In this exclusive video interview, the often controversial and always outspoken entrepreneur Jason Calacanis defends his hardcore work ethic, which he recently summed up in a blog post that drew fire...


Google content partnership VP David Eun on changing technology

In part three of Tech Confidential's Behind the Money video interview with Google Inc. vice president of content partnerships David Eun, he answers our questions about how changes in the tech landscape...


Google's fab four launches FriendFeed with a $5M Series A

FriendFeed Inc. on Tuesday is launching publicly after a private beta test and announcing a $5 million Series A round. Like dozens of other companies, FriendFeed is trying to leverage...


Why use Twitter? Because it's there

Louis Gray yesterday reprised an old, but still relevant, question about Twitter:  Is it useful? Perhaps fearful of being sucked into its maw, he's resisted using the microblogging service, asserting...


Fred Wilson not investing in Seesmic 'anytime soon'

On Friday I asked Union Square Ventures founder Fred Wilson by e-mail if he is investing in online video blogging startup Seesmic. (Yes, I know it's heresy to pose such...


Gmail interface designer Kevin Fox joins Google alumni at FriendFeed

We've tracked down Kevin Fox, the playful designer who crafted the look and feel of Gmail and other Google Inc. programs and who told the world last Friday that he...


Leah Culver, 25, writes the code that powers Pownce

  How does a 25-year-old computer science major from the University of Minnesota wind up as a co-founder of one of Silicon Valley's most closely watched startups? For Leah Culver, the lead developer of Pownce...


Who founded TheFunded? All-powerful 'Ted' set to step out from behind the curtain

Tonight's the night. The heretofore anonymous founder of TheFunded -- the Web site that lets people critique venture capitalists -- is set to reveal his identity Thursday evening at...


Social networking pro Jim Scheinman leaves Bebo for Charles River Ventures

"I'm an early-stage entrepreneur at heart," Bebo co-founder Jim Scheinman tells VentureBeat, explaining his decision to leave the social networking firm he helped create to join Charles River Ventures...


Martin Varsavsky latest to invest in Tumblr

"I invested in www.tumblr.com!" enthused Martin Varsavsky Sunday morning in a Twitter post announcing his modest $25,000 bet on the multimedia blog tool maker. In a longer post on...



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