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Entries Tagged as 'Small business'

On the Ropes, Vonage Struggles for a Comeback (Wired News)

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

The pioneering voice-over-internet company is battered by lawsuits, customer defections and poor stock-market performance. Many have written it off, but Vonage is hoping for a second act.
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Remember the Milk releases optimized version for iPhone/iPod Touch

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Productivity, Social Software, iPhone
Web-based task scheduling and organizing tool Remember the Milk, has just released a full-featured mobile version that’s specially optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Just to set your mind at ease: when they say full-featured, they mean full-featured. With the iPhone/iPod Touch optimized version of Remember the Milk, you can:

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Weekend Web 2.0 roundup for November 24th

November 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Filed under: Features, Web services, web 2.0

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Dictionary.com is most likely your first location for searching out common English spellings, but a new dictionary is working its way up the ladder, definr. This service pegs itself as the incredibly fast dictionary, which seems about right. Start typing and results are instantly displayed and narrowed down as […]

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Modern-Day Tech Startups: Treading Carefully (E-Commerce Times)

November 19th, 2007 · No Comments

There are a few hurdles between Landy Ung and her dream of growing her startup into a household name. One is the fact that her only outside funding comes from her mom’s fried chicken restaurant, another is that her only full-time programmer is her boyfriend, who has a day job. She and her boyfriend, Wan […]

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Dead Internet Startup Comes Back to Life (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

November 19th, 2007 · No Comments

In less time than it took its URL to propagate across the world wide web, internet startup www.freeoverstock.com operated by New Venture Company was flatlining by Monday morning and pronounced dead by late Tuesday.

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Skribit: From concept to business in 54 hours (BizJournals)

November 18th, 2007 · No Comments

There’s the traditional approach when forming a new Internet company: Find a partner, conduct market validation, seed the concept, launch a beta version, raise venture capital.

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AP Centerpiece: Tech startup life still lean years after dot-com bubble burst (San Diego Union-Tribune)

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

NEW YORK, 10:27 a.m. Nov. 9 (AP): There are a few hurdles between Landy Ung and her dream of growing her startup into a household name. One is the fact that her only outside funding comes from her mom’s fried chicken restaurant, another is that her only full-time programmer is her boyfriend, who has a […]

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Google or Yahoo? (CNN Money)

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

The favored exit strategy for internet startups is no longer an IPO but a splashy acquisition - preferably by Yahoo or Google. In the past decade each company has purchased around 40 small businesses, but for every YouTube (Google) or Flickr (Yahoo), there have been less flashy integrations and outright flameouts.

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AOL snapping up Internet ad startup Quigo for $300m (Haaretz Daily)

November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Time Warner Inc.’s AOL Internet division is about to buy Israeli startup Quigo for $300 million, the biggest exit of the year in Israel. Time Warner is the world’s largest communications group, and AOL plans to use Quigo’s technology to compete against Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo!

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MySpace gets social with Google (AP via Yahoo! News)

November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Internet social networking leader MySpace is joining Google Inc.’s platform for sharing applications across the Web — a concept that threatens to undermine the rapid growth of their common rival, Facebook Inc.

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