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Silicon Valley Watcher - former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski and team. Reporting on the business and culture of disruption and profiling the emerging companies and personalities of Silicon Valley. At the intersection of media and technology.
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Posted 8 hours ago
Google's [$GOOG] opposition to the Chinese government over censorship of the Internet is making life difficult for its partners in China. The New York Times reported Sunday, that Chinese officials hav
Posted 1 day ago
Richard Waters at the Financial Times, reports that a source familiar with the company's thinking has told him that Google is 99.9 percent certain it will close its Chinese search service....the com
Posted 2 days ago
It seems you can be ethical but poor when it comes to Internet business practices. The FBI estimated that Internet business scams doubled last year to reach $560 million.In a delightful irony, the mos
Posted 2 days ago
Joe McDonald with the Associated Press, today reported:China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or pay the consequences, giving no sign of a possible compromise
Posted 3 days ago
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be stepping up its scrutiny of Google and anti-trust issues related to its business. Bloomberg reports that the FTC is asking for sworn statements from co
Posted 3 days ago
Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape, likes to give business advice to media companies. For a couple of years, he has been advising newspapers to completely abandon print. He said it again in a
Posted 4 days ago
Intel hosted an open house this afternoon at its Intel Labs Berkeley. The lab has been in existence since November 2001.Some of the projects revealed:Intel Mash Maker This is a browser extension that
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Posted 4 days ago
James Rainey, at the The Los Angeles Times, reports on the Bay Area News Project financed with $5 million by Warren Hellman, a local philanthropist. The project has a CEO with a $400,000 salary and
Posted 5 days ago
The Federal Trade Commission held a second session today on the future of the newspaper industry and Hal Varian, Google's chief economist made a presentation.His talk, Newspaper Economics, Online and
Posted 5 days ago
Gabe Rivera's Techmeme is the news reader of choice for much of the Silicon Valley tech-setters -- more so than Techcrunch because it has a much wider selection of articles.I often see Gabe at press e
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