Commercial Alert (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Regional Internet company Embarq told lawmakers this week that it notified 26,000 high-speed Internet customers in Kansas that it was conducting a targeted advertising test based on their “anonymous” Web-surfing behavior and offered them the ability to opt out.
Springwise (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Almost exactly a year ago, we featured Vator.tv a Silicon Valley company that lets entrepreneurs pitch their "next big thing" to potential investors via short web videos. Recently, a similar venture got started in the UK. cmypitch.com describes itself...
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Almost exactly a year ago, we featured Vator.tv a Silicon Valley company that lets entrepreneurs pitch their "next big thing" to potential investors via short web videos. Recently, a similar venture got started in the UK. cmypitch.com describes itself as "Dragons' Den meets YouTube" and besides letting start-ups pitch their ideas to attract funding, the website also aims to provide other...
Car Online | News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 0-60mph in less than 4.0sec? That'll be the Tesla Roadster. Impressive stuff, even if the Silicone Valley company has been struggling with its gearbox technology in the US.Ah yes. High performance, saintly eco credentials... it's not all perfect, however. The price is the Tesla's big stumbling block: this thing costs a not-so-much-steep-as-near-vertical £79,000 in the UK. Yikes.The...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. TiVo and Amazon Team Up ( NYT ) TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised and promoted on commercials and talk...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
IPotential is the technology industry’s premier provider of complete intellectual property strategy and patent monetization services. IPotential, founded in late 2003, is dedicated to bring the same level of experience and expertise in patent transactions and strategy as had previously been available only to the largest technology companies. Our management team has more than 100 years of IP...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised and promoted on commercials and talk shows.
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Interesting times TiVo , the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised and promoted on commercials and talk shows. The company, based in Alviso, Calif., will introduce a “product purchase”...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
SAN FRANCISCO—TiVo Inc., the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping TV commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream: It wants to turn the remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised and promoted on commercials and talk shows.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Wall Street largely ignored Apple’s better than expected 37 per cent surge in revenues for the third quarter to $7.46 billion (£3.7 billion), a performance that represented the technology company’s best quarterly period in its history, but the Silicon Valley company last night boasted that it had increased profits by 23 per cent to $1.07 billion for the three months to June 28....
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The two companies want to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised and promoted on commercials and talk shows.
DVR (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... the new service by merchandising products related to Read More SAN FRANCISCO : TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products Read More Amazon.com Inc. and TiVo Inc. signed a deal that will let people...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
IT TRENDS Touching teraflops — graphically The graphics arena is in a reprise of a classic contest — Photo: Special Arrangement Terrific speed: The ATI Radeon HD4870 card takes graphics computing to the teraflop era Some 45 years ago, the world’s second biggest car rentalcompany, Avis ( it was second to Hertz), launched a highly successful campaign build around the slogan. “We’re only...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Hector Ruiz had been just the second person to lead AMD after company founder Jerry Sanders. He'll be replaced by the chip maker's No. 2 executive, Dirk Meyer. Ruiz has been instrumental in elevating AMD to become a more dangerous rival to Intel Corp. But ultimately he takes the blame for AMD's financial distress. The Silicon Valley company has racked up billions of dollars in...
