Tuesday - May 6, 2008
The winners of the 12th Annual Webby Awards were announced Tuesday. Taking home top honors was comedian Stephen Colbert as the Internet's "Person of the Year." Other big name honorees include Will.i.am for "Artist of the Year" and Michael Gondry, who won "Film & Video Person of the Year." Colbert received the award for his innovative use of the Internet to interact with fans of "The Colbert Report." That includes Google bombing to make him the top search result for "greatest living American" to challenging the "truthiness" of Wikipedia, the organization said.
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Tuesday - March 4, 2008
It may not have been noticed in the whirlwind of online transactions on Web sites like eBay or Amazon, but e-commerce turned 25 on Tuesday. On March 4, 1983, the husband-wife team of Alex Randall and Cameron Hall quietly launched a business revolution that was then the stuff of dreams, when their year-old company, Boston Computer Exchange, sold a computer "on line" to a buyer in South America.
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Sunday - March 2, 2008
Silicon Valley celeb Tom Perkins is no stranger to the spotlight. An innovator of laser technology-turned-VC, he helped nurture AOL, Amazon, Sun Microsystems, Google and Genentech. Along the way, he married -- and divorced -- romance novelist Danielle Steel and wrote a few books, including the novel Sex and the Zillionaire.
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Thursday - February 28, 2008
Microsoft's big bet on Facebook's online social network isn't stopping Chairman Bill Gates from promoting other popular Internet hangouts. Gates is helping out LinkedIn's online professional network by setting up a profile on the service and posing a question to help draw more attention to a makeover of the Web site's front page.
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Saturday - February 16, 2008
"In 1995, I began to e-mail a bunch of friends about art and technical events in San Francisco. Over the months that followed, people kept asking if I could add the occasional job posting and listings for things to sell, too. Then I said, 'Let's add apartment listings, too,'" said Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.
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Tuesday - February 5, 2008
The research arm of Microsoft already had an international reach; now, the company is tapping into the scientific prestige of the U.S. East Coast. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will open its first research lab in the region -- in Cambridge, Mass. -- in July. Microsoft Research New England will build on the company's commitment to collaborate with scientists in its quest for gains in computing research, Microsoft said.
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Thursday - January 24, 2008
eBay confirmed Wednesday that its president and CEO, Meg Whitman, will step down after a decade at the helm of one of the most successful e-commerce companies in the world. Investors brushed aside the succession news to focus on the auction company's relatively weak forecast for 2008. Whitman will leave eBay at the end of March; eBay Marketplaces chief John Donahoe will succeed her as CEO.
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Wednesday - January 23, 2008
Not to be bested by the likes of Apple and Motorola, Dell and Microsoft are joining forces to create (Product) Red PCs that will help African women and children with HIV/AIDS. The PCs will be crimson versions of Dell's XPS One line running Microsoft Windows Vista, and as much as $80 of the purchase price will be donated to The Global Fund via (Product) Red, Microsoft said.
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Monday - January 7, 2008
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gave his 11th and final keynote address at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday, a speech laden with predictions that technology will grow ever more personal and interconnected in coming years. Gates noted that his speech will likely be his last since he will complete a long-planned transition from day-to-day operations to a more low-key role at Microsoft this July.
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Friday - December 28, 2007
John Roberts, chairman and CEO of SugarCRM, is no stranger to the proprietary software that delivers most of the CRM functionality in the market today. The Washington, D.C.-native moved to Silicon Valley in his twenties and spent 12 years in the "trenches" as he puts it, developing products for enterprise vendors.
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Friday - December 28, 2007
Considering the speed at which technology evolves, predicting even a year in advance can be a dicey proposition. Still, given key tech sector developments during 2007 and the outlook for 2008, some trends are unmistakable. It's a safe bet that social networking and Web 2.0 overall will remain a closely watched sector and that mobile marketing and payments will see dramatic advances.
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