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Ever-busy Zuckerberg marries sweetheart the day after Facebook IPO

Sun, 20 May 2012 03:49:50 -0500

(VentureBeat) As if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn t busy enough readying his company to go public this past week, he also somehow found time to marry long-time sweetheart Priscilla Chan yesterday. Social networking titan Facebook went public Friday in the...

Never Give Up, Never Surrender

Sun, 20 May 2012 02:40:58 -0500

(Feld Thoughts) Today s post is a guest post from my friend Nicholas Napp. We first met five years ago and while I ve never invested in anything he s done, I ve tried to be helpful along the way. Nick is currently running a company called MoveableCode and has a...

Would Facebook’s IPO have been bigger if it went with New York Stock Exchange?

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:45:43 -0500

(VentureBeat) The all-computer run NASDAQ could be to blame for a lack of a Facebook stock pop Friday, when the social network started its first day of trading. Orders flooded in for the stock, but overwhelmed computers and glitches slowed trading down because...

Google’s acquisition of Motorola gets the go-ahead from Chinese government

Sat, 19 May 2012 08:43:02 -0500

(VentureBeat) Chinese antitrust and competition authorities have approved Google s deal to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The merger, which was announced nine months ago in August 2011, will...

Pets.com and Midwestern moms: Another look at what happened to Facebook

Sat, 19 May 2012 07:36:09 -0500

(VentureBeat) Hoo boy, anything tech-related that happened over this past week was dwarfed into oblivion by Facebook s IPO . Many of us were expecting a glorious event with massive profits for early shareholders, but the day s events ended in disappointment . The...

Silicon Valley needs humanities students

Sat, 19 May 2012 07:30:15 -0500

(VentureBeat) Quit your technology job. Get a Ph.D in the humanities. That’s the way to get ahead in the technology sector. That, at least, is what philosopher Damon Horowitz told a crowd of attendees at the BiblioTech Conference at Stanford University in 2011....

No liftoff for SpaceX: Launch aborted early Saturday

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:45:49 -0500

(VentureBeat) The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket came to an abrupt halt early Saturday. The rocket s computer detected too-high levels of pressure in engine number five, causing the launch to stop a half-second before liftoff. The Falcon 9 rocket held...

How were these Silicon Valley VCs so wrong about Facebook’s IPO?

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:35:46 -0500

(VentureBeat) Before Friday, almost every Silicon Valley insider was saying Facebook stock would finish its first day between $50 and $60 per share. In reality, the share price at the closing bell was a pathetic $38.37 . How were these masters of the universe some...

2-D books are over: Augmented reality breathes new life into the classics

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:30:16 -0500

(VentureBeat) Augmented reality, which bridges the divide between virtual and physical worlds, has crossed into a new frontier: print media. Penguin Books recently unveiled a surprising partnership with Zappar App , an augmented reality entertainment channel, to...

The Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs

Sat, 19 May 2012 01:01:33 -0500

(A VC : Venture Capital and Technology) This weekend finds NYC in between Internet Week (which I largely missed because of my London trip) and Disrupt NYC (which I will be at on and off this coming week). So the development of NYC as a startup hub is very much on my mind. And so I thought...