Hero banner

categories

HOT TOPICS

Blog » Archive for November, 2007

Pioneering Video Conferencing: Polycom CEO Bob Hagerty (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Nov 22nd 2007

SM: What happened after Ampex? BH: I wanted to take more of a risk so I went to a small startup called Conner Peripherals. There was an article in Fortune about us being the fastest to the fortune 500. You have to look at them in quarters because a year was just too fast. I

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Featured Videos

Web 3.0 & Yahoo! (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 21st 2007

Web 3.0 Framework discussion Below is a quick overview of the Web 3.0 framework for the Yahoo! sites. We have not gone into the details of all the properties, but you can review the Web 3.0 section of this site for detailed discussions on some of the vertical categories. However, here are some examples of

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Pioneering Video Conferencing: Polycom CEO Bob Hagerty (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 21st 2007

SM: Let’s start the conversation with your story? Where did you grow up, where do you come from? BH: I grew up in New Rochelle New York, which is right outside of New York City. I went to grammar school there and then went off to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for my BA degree.

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

RaaS—Reading as a Service and the New Amazon Kindle

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 21st 2007

By Gadi Shamia, Guest Author “There is a new SaaS, Something as a Service every month.” This is how I mused a month ago when writing The next SaaS post. Newsweek has the story about the new Amazon reader, Kindle. The device (that looks anything but kindling) will be sold for $399, and will act

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Web 3.0 & Yahoo! (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Nov 20th 2007

Vertical Strategy Yahoo! is the most popular portal in the world and is present in almost all the important verticals. We will take a look at the Company’s various online verticals below. Finance Yahoo! Finance provides financial information, tools and advice on personal financial management. The site is among the top five finance sites. The

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Interdigital: A strategic shift

Posted on Tuesday, Nov 20th 2007

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In my introduction to Interdigital (IDCC), I had talked about the company’s past. As we saw, despite a visionary beginning, IDCC is yet to find its place in the wireless world. Instead, it has taken an exclusive IP licensing route making money off lawsuits so far. A key reason for

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Serial Entrepreneur Zack Rinat on Model N (Part 12)

Posted on Tuesday, Nov 20th 2007

SM: What would you like to conclude with? It seems like you are at a place in your life where you are building this company to a significant size and this is your life’s effort a built to last company versus built to flip. What are your departing thoughts? ZR: A couple of things come

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Web 3.0 & Yahoo! (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Nov 19th 2007

Introduction Founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang, Yahoo! began as a hobby and has evolved into a leading global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information. Today, Yahoo! Inc. has become the world’s largest global online network

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments