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Bill Gates founds a new tech company
All about Microsoft —
October 22nd, 2008 Bill Gates founds a new tech company Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 12:58 pm Categories: Corporate strategy Tags: Bill Gates , Microsoft Corp. , Mary Jo Foley , Think Tank , Productivity Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has founded a new company (some time in between sleeping and working countless hours for the Gates Foundation and a day a week for Microsoft ). Todd Bishop — the former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter now at the Puget Sound Business Journal’s newly launched TechFlash site — has unearthed new information about ...
Bill Gates Has Started a New Company, bgC3
ReadWriteWeb —
... to launch their new tech blog TechFlash. It's a sweet scoop by a group of former mainstream reporters bravely striking out into the blogosphere. ...
Bill Gates Creates Mysterious Company, Everyone Looks Around Nervously [Bill Returns]
Gizmodo —
World, get ready because Bill Gates is returning. His new company is called bgC3. Bill Gates Concept 3? Bill Gates Cartman 3? Big Goose Charbroiled 3? Bad Gastrointestinal Catastrophe 3? We have no idea. The truth is that very little is known about it, except its trademark categories, and the fact that they have a web site showing a very pretty logo. Bill Gates' new venture has a federal trademark as a think-tank, covering: • Scientific and technological services. • Industrial analysis and research. • Design and development of computer hardware and software. The ...
Puget Sound Business Journal Launches TechFlash Site with Cook, Bishop
Xconomy —
Journalism, people, Tech Industry
Gregory T. Huang wrote:
Where are John and Todd? A month after Luke reported that venerable Seattle tech reporters John Cook and Todd Bishop left the Seattle P-I for new roles at the Puget Sound Business ...
Q&A with Ian Freed of Amazon Kindle
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Eric Engleman of TechFlash has published a Q&A with Ian Freed, the guy at Amazon who is responsible for the Kindle. You can read the whole thing here.
The thing that surprised me the most was Ian’s answer to the question: Are there some Kindle features that you’ve found work particularly well and some that don’t? He responded that newspaper delivery and the experimental browser have gone over really well, but here’s the part of the answer I never would have expected:
The other one — we had pretty good instincts on this but didn’t know ...
Six Apart Gives Journalists Free Blogs
ReadWriteWeb —
San Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has announced they will be giving away free accounts on their TypePad blogging system for professional bloggers and journalists who recently lost their jobs as well as those who fear the axe is coming. Cleverly dubbed the "Journalist Bailout Program," the service includes one free blog, a place in the Six Apart Media advertising program, promotion on Blogs.com, a as well as other tools and advice on driving traffic to your site, all courtesy of Six Apart.
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TypePad's Blogger Bailout For Laid-Off Journalists
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[image] Quite a Package from Six Apart Anil Dash TypePad has introduced a "bailout" program for journalists who have been laid off or expect to be."In short, the program as described offers up a TypePad blog, a place in our Six Apart Media advertising program, promotion on Blogs.com, and a healthy dose of our expertise and insights into helping publishers and bloggers succeed online," explains Anil Dash, Chief Evangelist for Six Apart, makers of MovableType and TypePad. To me, this symbolizes the idea that blogs are far from dead, despite recent commentary on the contrary . Blogs ...
Breaking: Google News doesn’t break tech news
VentureBeat —
... Again, contrast this with Techmeme: That site surely gives some sites more weight than others, but it’s a constantly moving scale, with newly launched quality publications like TechFlash, ...
Tech Layoffs Come Back With a Vengeance: 80,000 In January, Approaching 200,000 Total
TechCrunch —
After layoff activity in the tech industry quieted down around the holidays, it’s come back with a vengeance in January. According to our Layoff Tracker, 80,076 job eliminations have been announced or completed since the beginning of the year. The total number of tech layoffs since we began tracking in late August is now 195,856.
This past week alone, substantial layoffs were announced by Ericsson (5,000), Intel (6,000), and Microsoft (5,000). The biggest job loss by far is the 34,000 employees of Circuit City, which announced it is ...
Windows Is Not on 96% of Netbooks
Microsoft Watch —
April 7, 2009 12:10 AM Windows Is Not on 96% of Netbooks Brandon LeBlanc put forth the 96-percent figure in a Friday blog post . Late day, Todd Bishop and I discussed Brandon's post over IM. He writes for TechFlash . We both debated blogging rebuttal, qualifying posts, which neither of us did. I should have nipped this one in the bud, as they say. arrow.gif GOT A TIP OR RUMOR? Brandon writes: The growth of Windows on netbook PCs over the last year has been phenomenal. We've seen Windows share on these PCs in the U.S. go from under 10 percent of unit sales during the ...
HP goes for high performance computing
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Intel displays its Achilles' Heel
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Party time at Sun as $50 million golden parachute is prepped
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Millionth English word is announced
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Digital cameras go wireless with the Eye-Fi Pro
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Adobe Flash player to get GPU acceleration
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T-Mobile disputes controversial hacking claims
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Apple iPhone 3G S to feature embedded ARM processor
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Join TechFlash, VentureBeat and DEMO for cocktails in Seattle
VentureBeat —
As part of our effort to find the most exciting companies and products to launch at the DEMOfall conference in September, Chris Shipley and I are making several stops around the country meeting with local entrepreneurs. Next up is Seattle!
On Monday, June 22, we’re joining up with TechFlash co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop — for a casual evening of cocktails and conversation at Spitfire bar in Belltown. John and Todd recently launched TechFlash to focus on news coverage of entrepreneurship in Seattle, and have been doing an excellent job.
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VentureBeat-DEMO hit Seattle, and the sun is actually shining!
VentureBeat —
We had a great cocktail party last night in Seattle, with more than 150 entrepreneurs, investors and other professionals showing up at the Spitfire bar downtown.
Chris Shipley and I found flew in yesterday, only to hit the usual mass of thick clouds that cover Seattle. But today, the sun broke through again (and resumed one of the longest, sunniest spells in Seattle ever). We’ve been holding meetings and calls all day with local entrepreneurs considering launching at DEMO
Thanks to John Cook, of Techflash, who co-hosted the event with us, and who helped pull out the crowd. ...
7 Ways to Make News Sites More Social
Mashable! —
... Similar to providing an easy way to connect to the site through tools like Facebook Connect, requiring users to register another account to comment on an article can be somewhat burdensome – especially for one-time visitors who stumbled upon an article through search.
Allowing readers to comment using their social usernames can be effective in building a thriving commenting community on stories, said John Cook, executive editor of TechFlash. This is why TechFlash, a product of the Puget Sound Business Journal, incorporated the ...
1984 lawsuit settled by Amazon: Enough protection now from Orwellian zaps of Kindle books?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... Amazon has reportedly settled the lawsuit over the zapping of 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindles of the e-books’ owners—well, owner as some might define it. ...
Geeks Are Losers
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On the road next week to PDC, catch the keynote Liveblog here!
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
We’re honored again to be able to bring you a group effort liveblog of the keynotes at PDC, coming up next Tuesday and Wednesday. The same gang is back again this year: Long Zheng from istartedsomething.com, Mary Jo Foley from All About Microsoft, Ed Bott from Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report, Paul Thurrott from Windows Supersite, Rafael Rivera from Within Windows, and Tom Warren from Neowin.net (Todd Bishop from TechFlash apparently prefers the November rain in Seattle to 76 and sunny in LA, go figure).
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Sony Reader Daily Edition ready for preorder starting November 18—and meanwhile the Sony PRS-500 firmware update is out
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Beginning November 18, you can preorder the $399 Sony Reader Daily Edition, the one with a 7.1-inch E Ink screen and 3G wireless from AT&T in the U.S. So reports TechFlash in Eric Engleman’s Q&A with Steve Haber, president of the Sony digital reading division.
The Daily Edition, last we heard, will actually ship in December, when Sony is also to reveal the newspapers and magazines that will be available for the device. I just hope the presentation of news content is more efficient than the Kindle’s. I can’t get to the stories lickety-split the way I can ...
Wireless Sony e-reader ready for preorder tomorrow—and meanwhile the Sony PRS-500 firmware update is out
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Beginning November 18, tomorrow, you can preorder the $399 Sony Reader Daily Edition, the one with a 7.1-inch E Ink screen and 3G wireless from AT&T in the U.S.
So reports TechFlash in Eric Engleman’s Q&A with Steve Haber, president of the Sony digital reading division. current official Web page is here.
The Daily Edition, last we heard, will actually ship in December, when Sony is also to reveal the newspapers and magazines that will be available for the device. I just hope the presentation of news content is more efficient than the ...
Microsoft Will Buy Twitter, Adobe to Buy Picnik, and Other Bold Predictions for 2010
Xconomy —
... areas are you staying away from?
A panel of Seattle-area tech entrepreneurs and investors gamely took the bait and had some lively exchanges over the course of an hour. OK, these guys all know each other, and we’ll take what they say with a grain of salt since it’s a public forum—but here were some of the most interesting points they made. (You can read more comprehensive recaps of the panel on Brier Dudley’s blog at the Seattle Times, and soon on TechFlash by moderator John Cook.)
The panel was split 3 to 2, with the narrow majority ...
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