| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.01.2025 | Another frustrating reason to upgrade to Windows 11 | Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto/Getty Images
As if you didn’t already need plenty of reasons to finally upgrade to Windows 11, here’s yet another.
The latest Windows 10 update, version KB5048239, isn’t just failing to install — it’s actually updat... |
| 09.10.2024 | Rezilient Health: A New Dawn in Healthcare Delivery | In a world where healthcare often feels like a maze, Rezilient Health is lighting the way. The St. Louis-based company recently secured $10 million in Series A funding, a significant boost that promises to reshape healthcare delivery across... |
| 09.10.2024 | Rezilient Health: Healthcare Company Raises $10 Million (Series A) | Leading tech-enabled healthcare company Rezilient Heath announced that it has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Govo Venture Partners with participation from Bridge Ventures, Acorn Pacific Ventures, The Council, Jim McKelve... |
| 03.10.2024 | Rezilient Health Secures $10M to Expand CloudClinics™ in MO, TX, OK | What You Should Know:
– Rezilient Health, a St. Louis-based tech-enabled healthcare company, announced today that it has secured $10M in Series A funding led by Govo Venture Partners, with participation from Bridge Ventures, Acorn Pacific V... |
| 09.07.2021 | Promoting startups: 10 hard-hitting promotion methods | Promoting startups: 10 hard-hitting promotion methods |
| 09.07.2021 | Продвижение стартапов: 10 убийственных способов раскрутки | Продвижение стартапов: 10 убийственных способов раскрутки |
| 11.03.2021 | MRP Announces New CEO | PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 11, 2021--
MRP Prelytix ™, the only enterprise-class predictive ABM platform, today announced Scott Matthews' appointment as CEO for MRP. Scott succeeds Kevin Cunningham, co-founder of MRP, who is stepping... |
| 27.06.2019 | A Richmond Startup Seeking Answers on Autism Just Raised $850K to Scale | Growth time has begun for a Richmond startup looking to provide answers on autism.
AnswersNow has closed an $850,000 seed funding round, co-founder Jeff Beck said, as it looks to scale its platform that matches parents of children with auti... |
| 20.07.2018 | Could mysterious Durban man be the investor behind SA startup Zapper? | Is a media shy Durban-born entrepreneur the angel investor behind South African tech startup Zapper?
Mystery continues to surround who the investor behind the Durban-based startup is. After a brief investigation by Ventureburn no one close ... |
| 20.07.2018 | Could mysterious Durban man be the investor behind SA startup Zapper? | Is a media shy Durban-born entrepreneur the angel investor behind South African tech startup Zapper?
Mystery continues to surround who the investor behind the Durban-based startup is. After a brief investigation by Ventureburn no one close... |
| 27.10.2017 | Assessing the threat the Reaper botnet poses to the Internet—what we know now | Johnny Ashburn reader comments 53 with 37 posters participating
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| 06.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, March 6 | A LOOK AHEAD
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. In today’s guest column, Upfront Ventures managing partner Mark Suster takes stock of how limited partners are feeling about the state of VC investing.
Paid Content How can you protect what you... |
| 22.12.2016 | The world’s first solar road is now open | Part of what makes solar panels so great is that all they need to do is just exist in order to work. They don’t need much room, and as long as sunlight hits them, they’ll work as intended. With over 10 million miles of paved roads on the fa... |
| 13.09.2016 | Lewis & Clark Ventures Joins Agtech Investor Ranks with $20m Plant Sciences Fund | A new venture capital firm has entered the agriculture technology market to invest in startups at Series A and Series B stage. St Louis-based Lewis & Clark Ventures this week held a $20 million first close on its first agtech fund, whic... |
| 17.04.2016 | 9 Things Twitter Has Given Us in the Past Decade | With Twitter recently turning 10 years old it’s time to take a look back at all the platform has given us over the last 10 years. For a decade now, Twitter has encouraged users to say what was on their minds though briefly.
Ten years and bi... |
| 30.12.2015 | Movie pirates break records | - |
| 14.10.2014 | Solar power is casting a bigger shadow | Does having your own solar power installation sound appealing? It apparently does to a growing number of American businesses and homeowners who are investing in what many tout as a cleaner and less expensive source of electricity. And that ... |
| 30.09.2014 | Hear pioneers of the LA pre-seed scene at Splash LA | Meet and listen to founders of LA's studio/incubator model - Bill Gross and Mike Jones
Can you believe that Vator Splash LA is just two days away? Have you bought your tickets yet? If not, then make sure to buy your tickets here! They go up... |
| 27.12.2013 | A Look Back At How The Content Industry Almost Killed Blockbuster And Netflix (And The VCR) | Contributor Contributor
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Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success”
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| 23.12.2013 | Answers picks up for ForeSee for north of $200M | Customer experience analytics firm ForeSee helps companies predict and understand customer behavior
When I think of Answers, I still think of it as the simple question and answers website it once was. The fact is, though, it has changed qui... |
| 22.12.2013 | Q&A Platform Answers.com Raises More Cash, Buys Customer Experience Analytics Company ForeSee For Over $200M | Q&A platform Answers is announcing a big acquisition and fundraising tonight–the company is buying customer experience analytics company ForeSee, and just raised $300 million in new funding in equity from existing investors, including S... |
| 24.05.2013 | How St. Louis became a tech town | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by Aaron Perlut.
In spite of... |
| 17.05.2013 | A list of top LA accelerators and incubators
Retrieve Voicemail Online or By Phone | Amplify, Launchpad, MuckerLab, Idealab and Science among those churning out new startups
(Updated to reflect more up to date information for Start Engine and Curious Minds)
s I have noted before, the tech scene in Los Angeles is on the rise... |
| 08.01.2013 | Verizon Announces $10M In ‘Powerful Answers’ Awards For Health Care, Education, And Sustainability | Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam’s keynote speech this afternoon at the Consumer Electronics Show was all about the big challenges facing different industries (and indeed society as a whole), as well as the ways that Verizon technology is helping.... |
| 12.12.2012 | Cash: Rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated | This guest post was written by Danny Shader, CEO and founder of PayNearMe.
Lee Ault, CEO of the first check guarantee service, TeleCredit (which subsequently morphed into FiS Global), once described the moment his business exploded in the e... |
| 08.08.2012 | New York Times pondering sale of About.com for $270M (rumor) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The New York Times is looking to sell lackluster ... |
| 08.08.2012 | New York Times pondering sale of About.com for $270M (rumor) | The New York Times is looking to sell lackluster web property About.com for about $270 million in a move to shore up the media giant, AllThingsD reports.
About.com was purchased by the New York Times for $410 million in 2005. For a few year... |
| 01.08.2012 | Answers Acquires Online Merchant Review Service ResellerRatings | Q&A site Answers today announced that it has acquired ResellerRatings, a site that calls itself “the web’s leading independent resource for helping shoppers find the best online retailers.” ResellerRatings currently features about 1 mil... |
| 21.07.2012 | From MIT to Stanford, college classes where a startup is the final exam | College campuses are becoming incubators for startups, offering encouragement in the form of classes to nurture young dreamers. This explains the influx of 21-year-olds making millions of dollars in investment before they can legally pop a ... |
| 23.04.2012 | TA Associates Invests In Q&A Site Answers.com | Q&A platform Answers.com is announcing a ‘significant’ minority investment from private equity firm TA Associates. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Answers operates a community-generated Q&A site at Answers.com,... |
| 22.09.2011 | Keen On… Yossi Vardi: Why the Next Major Paradigm Shift is Social TV | So, I asked the legendary Israeli investor Yossi Vardi, is the boom in social finished?
“Social didn’t run out of steam since the birth of civilization,” Yossi shot back. We were, appropriately enough, in the very cradle of civilization, in... |
| 27.06.2011 | Answers.com Gets Gutted By Its New Owner: Massive Layoffs, CEO And CTO Out | AFCV Holdings, a portfolio company of growth equity investor Summit Partners, is axing the majority of people working for Q&A site Answers.com parent company Answers Corporation, which it acquired earlier this year for $127 million in c... |
| 25.04.2011 | Experian Hitwise: Google’s Panda Takes Big Bite Out Of Content Farms | Experian Hitwise reports that downstream traffic to content farms has taken a big hit since Google’s Panda initiative went into effect.
Panda is a change in Google’s algorithm that punishes search rankings for websites that produce low-qual... |
| 01.04.2011 | Five Reasons to Commit to Breastfeeding Your Baby | 2. Workplace Support
Benjamin outlined several approaches meant to encourage women to breastfeed. She hopes to pass mandates requiring employers to offer private areas where mothers can pump breast milk during the workday. The employers sho... |
| 04.02.2011 | Is the Answers.com sale in trouble? | Q&A site Answers.com announced yesterday that it’s going to be acquired by private equity firm Summit Partners. But the decision still needs approval from the company’s shareholders, and according to a report in Business Insider, some o... |
| 03.02.2011 | AFCV buys Answers.com for $127M in cash | The publicly traded company still requires the approval of stockholders before it can close in Q2
Answers.com, a publicly traded company on NASDAQ, announced Thursday that it has agreed to be acquired by AFCV Holdings LLC, a Summit Partners... |
| 03.02.2011 | Q&A Site Answers.com Acquired By AFCV Holdings For $127 Million In Cash | Q&A platform Answers.com has been acquired by AFCV Holdings, a portfolio company of Summit Partners, for $127 million in cash or $10.50 per share. AFCV will be delisting Answers, which was a public company, from the NASDAQ and taking th... |
| 23.01.2011 | Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype | Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don’t claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong—I have no vested interest in the succes... |
| 17.11.2010 | Top Trends of 2010: Content Farms | The Web has always rewarded quantity more than quality, but over 2010 this truism became even more pronounced with the growth of Content Farms. These are companies which create thousands of pieces of content per day. Much of it is in the fo... |
| 02.11.2010 | Answers.com Hits 10 Millionth Answer, Launches Its First iPhone App (blufr) | Answers Corporation, which owns and operates a community-generated Q&A site at Answers.com, this morning announced that its database of answers now tops 10 million.
In conjuction with the announcement, Answers Corporation is today debut... |
| 05.10.2010 | Answers.com launches blufr, social trivia | blufr, new social trivia game for iPhone (and soon, Facebook), tests users with Answers.com trivia
Q&A Web site Answers.com launched Tuesday an iPhone app called blufr, a social trivia game powered by information from Answers.com.
The f... |
| 31.08.2010 | AOL Answers Sees The Light Of Day, 3 Years After AOL's Acquisition Of Yedda | Next November, it will be three years since AOL acquired Israeli startup Yedda in an effort to foray into the online Q&A service business.
Today, Yedda is finally graduating to a full-fledged AOL property with the ‘launch’ of AOL Answer... |
| 05.08.2010 | Q&A Site Quora Opens Up to Search Engines Tomorrow | Quora, the real-time question and answer service started by two former Facebook employees, will start being indexed by search engines tomorrow, a week after Facebook rolled out the first version of the similar service Facebook Questions.
Bu... |
| 20.07.2010 | OR Basics: The sterile field | Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, established the founding principles of aseptic technique in the journal Lancet in 1867. Before then, surgeons did not wash their hands before operating or disinfect their surgical instruments. (Shudder.) In... |
| 20.04.2010 | Answers.com Starts Answering Questions On Twitter | Twitter has always been good for getting immediate answers to the most esoteric questions. Usually it is someone who is following you who supplies the answer, and those are always the best ones. But Q&A sites also want in on the supplyi... |
| 16.04.2010 | CrunchGear celebrates National Scoop the Poop week with a Dog-e-Minder giveaway! | It’s a fact that if we weren’t all so busy blogging about technology that we’d all be busy blogging about dogs. We love dogs! All of you folks out there without dogs are normally deprived of the joy and pleasure associated with dog ownershi... |
| 12.04.2010 | Idealab founder Bill Gross: Why I’m running a Twitter startup | In early 2009, blog millionaire Jason Calacanis half-jokingly offered Twitter $250,000 to place his company’s Mahalo Answers on the company’s Suggested User List, a staff-selected group of favorite tweeters. Anyone who made it onto the SUL ... |
| 02.04.2010 | Morning Read: Good times for generic drugmakers | There was at least one positive note for Big Pharma: The No. 1 selling drug remains Pfizer’s cholesterol drug Lipitor, though sales fell just a bit from the year before.
Will Republicans regret health-reform obstructionism? That’s what some... |
| 18.02.2010 | Full Metal Case: Exovault billet | According to Answers.com, a billet is “a small, usually rectangular bar of iron or steel in an intermediate stage of manufacture” or “a small ingot of nonferrous metal.” I didn’t know that. I also didn’t know that you could get an iPhone ca... |
| 08.12.2009 | PricewaterhouseCoopers puts a number on personalized medicine market: $232 billion | In its report, The Science of Personalized Medicine: Translating the Promise into Practice, PWC looks at the booming market being created by personalized medicine, which targets individualized treatment and care based on personal and genet... |
| 29.11.2009 | Email Of The Week: Journalism School Language Police | It’s that time again – for the ridiculous email of the week award. And while Video Professor really wins this week’s award, we’re going to add one more to the list.
Gabrielle, a student at Drake University’s School of Journalism and Mass Co... |
| 12.11.2009 | How Demand Media Produces 4,000 Pieces of Content a Day | In August we reviewed Demand Media, one of the largest producers of content on the Web
today. Wired Magazine recently compared Demand Media’s content business to Henry Ford’s production line for cars. Demand Media currently produces 4,000 n... |
| 07.11.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Mega Content Sites, Gen Y on Twitter, iPhone App Recommendation Services, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using Twitter more, c... |
| 05.11.2009 | The Age of Mega Content Sites – Answers.com and Demand Media | Two companies that produce massive quantities of new content every day, Answers.com and Demand Media, are rapidly moving up the list of top U.S. web properties, as measured by comScore. Answers.com has risen from #26 to #13 in just two mont... |
| 15.10.2009 | Who's Scorched Up comScore In September, You Ask? | What site has jumped five spots between August and September to become the 13th most visited site in the US, leapfrogging properties like New York Times and Viacom Digital?
Here are some hints: It’s listed on the NASDAQ. It was founded in I... |
| 23.09.2009 | DEMO: Answers.com adds wiki features to its Q&A service | The new version of question-and-answer site Answers.com tries to bridge the worlds of professional reference works and user-generated content. It combines more than 250 licensed reference source with community, discussion and a user-edited ... |
| 22.09.2009 | DEMOfall 09: Your guide to VentureBeat’s coverage | We’re in the middle of DEMOfall 09 today in San Diego, where 56 tech companies will launch new products, and another 14 will give sneak peeks of the products that they’re working on.
This probably hasn’t escaped your notice, since VentureBe... |
| 18.09.2009 | DEMOfall09: The launching companies | The DEMOfall 09 conference for companies launching new products and technologies is less than a week away, and it just released the full list of presenting companies.
Right now, all we have is the company list. For more information about wh... |
| 26.08.2009 | Answers.com: 31 Million Copied and Pasted Web Pages Can’t Go Wrong | Earlier this week we looked at the top 50 web properties in the U.S., according to comScore, and analyzed the changes over the past year. The top 5 were almost the same, except for the entrance of Facebook at number 5. What really caught ou... |
| 28.05.2009 | Palm Pre: An also-ran | An “also-ran” is, literally, “a horse that does not win, place, or show in a race.” The world loves an underdog but it never loves an also-ran. It forgets about an also-ran.
And so we reach nearly the end of Palm Pre madness and I’m afraid ... |
| 13.05.2009 | Record EU Fine for Intel, Deconstructing Intel Response | It seems like only yesterday that I was writing about the danger of antitrust actions in high tech. In fact, it was, and at the time I mentioned the speculation that Intel would face a walloping antitrust fine from the EU today. And so it d... |
| 17.03.2009 | Apture raises $4.1 million | Clearstone funds tool to help publishers enrich their stories and keep the audience on their site
No matter how hard you tap a newspaper, it doesn’t take you to another newspaper, or to Wikipedia, or to the Library of Congress, or to a dict... |
| 23.02.2009 | What young males want online | We evaluate Cavallere, an advice site for young men
In this Vator Box segment, we take a look at a content site for young males. Richard Jalichandra was our guest host, once again. While at IGN, Jalichandra was integral in the acquisition o... |
| 15.12.2008 | Palm looking to "bridge the gap" with Nova OS and device(s) | Looking to revive the once-mighty Palm smartphone brand, the struggling company turned to Jon Rubenstein in mid-2007, a former Apple SVP who was instrumental in the development of the iPod and now Palm’s executive chairman in charge of prod... |
| 02.12.2008 | 5min's VideoSeed Syndicates How-To Videos To Answers.com And Others | How-to site 5min is expanding beyond its roots as a video portal and has launched a syndication network for its videos called VideoSeed, which uses semantic matching to deliver relevant clips to participating sites. The platform matches key... |
| 04.08.2008 | Objective journalism - exists and growing | But, it's like obscenity; you know it when you see it, and you rarely do
When I started as a journalist, I always went directly to the source, or at least what I thought were the sources. These days, copying and pasting is a bigger part of ... |
| 10.06.2008 | LiquidPlanner: Project Management That Deals With Uncertainty | The only thing you can count on with most projects is that they won’t come in on time. And the more people involved, the greater the uncertainty grows. There is no lack of project management software out there to try to contain this uncerta... |
| 02.10.2007 | Lingoz: Wiktionary Done Right? | Can a user-defined dictionary be done better than Wikipedia’s Wiktionary? Babylon, a maker of popular for-pay translation/dictionary desktop software, certainly thinks so, and they are launching Lingoz to prove it.
Lingoz is a collaborative... |
| 26.08.2007 | Dapper to Launch Instant Facebook AppMaker | This Tuesday, Israel-based Dapper will launch the private beta of Facebook AppMaker, a new tool that the company claims will provide people with a dead simple way to create new Facebook applications.
At its core, Dapper allows users to crea... |
| 16.07.2007 | Answers.com Now Owns Dictionary.com | Question and answer reference site Answers.com has purchased Dictionary.com’s parent company, Lexico Publishing, for $100 million in cash. Lexico can really serve all your lexical needs because it also owns Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. ... |
| 09.03.2007 | Are you powered by Wikipedia yet? | Back in the late 90s, VCs asked entrepreneurs if they had an Internet vision for their companies. Earlier this decade, they asked about an open source strategy. In two years, VCs will be asking entrepreneurs if they’re powered by Wikipedia.... |
| 20.02.2007 | This Blog Is AnswerTips Enabled | With the dustup over Snap Preview fresh in my mind, I have taken the step of adding more popup bling to this blog.
The new bling is called AnswerTips and comes from Answers.com, a former portfolio company of ours at Flatiron Partners. Answe... |
| 30.11.2006 | YouTube’s spoils, Yahoo answers, Danger, fuddy US companies & more | The latest roundup of the action happening in Silicon Valley:
First evidence of YouTube wealth — What do you do with your money, when you get it? One way is to spend $20 million to buy Andre Agassi’s Tiburon estate. That’s what Stuart Peter... |
| 24.10.2006 | Believe It Or Not: TV Manufacturing Returning To The US | If you remember the history of the TV manufacturing industry, you’ll recall what a big scare it was when TV manufacturing completely abandoned the US for Japan (and, later, other parts of Asia). It generated a lot of fear in the US over the... |
| 11.10.2006 | The Oil Debate, Round II: Khosla vs. Patzek | If there’s one technology challenge most important to the country’s future, it is the technology of energy.
Energy reserves, and the need to secure them, is a good part of the reason we’re in Iraq, losing lives. It’s why we are so interlock... |
| 14.09.2006 | Blufr tests your b.s. radar | Blufr is a cool little site that makes true and false statements about history, science, geography and other topics. Some of the statements are true and some are bluffs (untrue), if you can tell which are which you win points and climb up t... |
| 07.09.2006 | Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps | Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard
MacManus. Ebrahim runs a search engine called Qube – which is a webified desktop app.Richard’s Note: In some ways Ebrahim’s conclusions in this article contradict
my own views, but I think that ... |
| 01.09.2006 | VentureBeat is back | We launched early yesterday morning, but an overwhelming spike in traffic, a subsequent server crash and no fallback combined to shut down the Web site for a whole day.
We’ve learned some lessons.
1) It is hard to launch a start-up. It is s... |
| 28.08.2006 | Top Web Apps in Turkey | Turkey is next in this R/WW series
on top international Web apps. It’s the 9th country I’ve profiled so far – the others
have been Germany,
Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain and China. For the following information on Tu... |
| 08.06.2006 | Itiva: The video file transfer killer app? | The boom in Internet videos transfers — from movie downloads to amateur video sharing — is causing pain in the Internet backbone.
Now a Palo Alto start-up called Itiva has popped up, saying it has found the magic pill: It says it can do som... |
| 06.01.2006 | Jealousy | The past two post titles might make you think I am starting a series on the seven deadly sins but I am not.
When one company looks at another’s business model with envy, they often get upset and start thinking about how to fix the situation... |
| 07.11.2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 31 Oct – 6 Nov 2005 | This week: Microsoft Live, Flash Maps and the Mechanical Turk, Web 2.0 meet-ups
all over the world, 2.0 Blog of the Week – Supr.c.ilio.us.
sponsored by: Microsoft Live wrap-up
The big news of the week was Microsoft’s announcement of Windows... |
| 21.10.2005 | Answers.com Links Up with Wikipedia | Wikimedia announced on Thursday that it had reached a deal with Answers.com to offer users answers to queries from content included in the Wikipedia. Called "1-Click Answers, Wikpedia Edition," the site is expected to go live in e... |
| 28.09.2005 | I am a Broadband Liberal | In most comments to my posts of a political nature, there is usually a comment that includes the following:
"… because Fred is a liberal …."
I am a liberal and I am proud of it. It is not a stain on my shirt. It’s a badge of honor... |
| 09.08.2005 | Tone down the cheerleading | The Not Web 2.0 discussion has legs. Dave Winer pointed to Dare Obasanjo’s post, specifically this bit:
“The problem with ‘Web 2.0’ and other over hyped buzzwords is that 90% of the stuff you hear or read about it is crap.”
I agree, provide... |
| 01.08.2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 25-31 July 2005 | sponsored by:
Onfolio is offering R/WW readers a coupon code entitling the bearer to $30 off a
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This week: Walled Gardens, Ajax backlash, Widgetmania, Asia update, Th... |
| 11.05.2005 | VC Cliche of the Week | This isn’t really a cliche, but it’s a phrase I’ve said uncounted times.
The Scottish poet Robert Burns said that " The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Gang aft a-gley” (often go astray)." This line is from his poem "To A... |
| 10.05.2005 | MBA and Web 2.0 Symbiosis | MBAs got top billing in my latest Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up – and
there have been some interesting follow-ups. In the comments to yesterday’s post, Bud Gibson pointed to “The High Octane Blogging
Bootcamp” that his company is doing for MBA stu... |
| 08.04.2005 | Google Adds Quick Answers to Search | For once, the roles have reversed and Google is taking a page from Microsoft's playbook. The search giant on Thursday added a feature called Google Q&A to search queries, which provides facts and answers to questions above results. Micr... |
| 11.03.2005 | Internet Only Bibliography? | The Gotham Gal posted today about a debate raging in our house this week.
Jessica wanted to turn in a paper with a bibliography that only contained Internet URLs. That’s not allowed at her school. She needs to read some books and consider s... |
| 05.02.2005 | Y!Q | I’ve always been a fan of searching in context. When we first invested in Gurunet, developer of Answers.com, they had a really cool right click search product. It required a download and never attained critical mass. But the idea of doing s... |
| 29.01.2005 | Google Links Up With Answers.com | Since its debut earlier this month, Answers.com has garnered rave reviews across the Web and, apparently, Google agrees. The search giant has begun redirecting its "definition" link that appears atop search results to the referenc... |
| 28.01.2005 | Answers.com | Back in October, I brogged (bragging on a blog – a phrase coined by Brad Feld who has been known to engage in the practice from time to time) about our portfolio company Gurunet’s public offering.
Well Gurunet (GRU) hasn’t been standing sti... |
| 14.10.2004 | IPOs! | I posted a picture of an IPO Prospectus on my blog back in July. It was for our portfolio company PlanetOut. Well it took quite a while, but PlanetOut is a public company this morning. They went effective last night at $9/share and will be ... |
| - | PricewaterhouseCoopers puts a number on personalized medicine market: $232 billion | NEW YORK, New York – Global assurance, tax and advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC has put a number on the emerging market for personalized health and wellness in the United States: $232 billion and growing at 11 percent per year.
... |
| - | Five Reasons to Commit to Breastfeeding Your Baby | United States Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin issued a Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding the last week in January 2011. Benjamin hopes the initiative will educate the public about the numerous benefits of breastfeeding for both mothe... |
| - | Cheops: uma pirâmide de Bauru aclamada mundialmente | A Imagine Cup, competição mundial de tecnologia para estudantes que teve sua final em junho no Egito, premiou em primeiro lugar na categoria Design a equipe Willburn, de Bauru, interior paulista. Mas calmaí, caro leitor interessado em tecn... |
| - | The world’s first solar road is now open | Part of what makes solar panels so great is that all they need to do is just exist in order to work. They don’t need much room, and as long as sunlight hits them, they’ll work as intended. With over 10 million miles of paved roads on the fa... |
| - | Morning Read: Good times for generic drugmakers | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
Good times for generic drugmakers: Sales of prescription drugs in the U.S. rose about 5 percent last year–weak growth by historical levels, but still not too shab... |
