According to this San Jose Mercury News piece, a Silicon Valley Leadership Group report ranks the region last among eight high-tech areas in quality of life. The report, called ``Daring To Compete: A Region-to-Region Reality Check,’’ will be…

Lots of buzz around the second mega acquisition of the day ($5.8B), seeing Oracle eating up Siebel Systems for dessert. Given that the company has about $2.2B cash on hand, Oracle is paying $3.6B, i.e about 2.7X…

I posted last night about the new version of Memeorandum being available, and why it looked really great, especially with the new Tech focused content aggregation. However, because my DSL is out of wack, I could not only get minimal access to the Net through my neighbor’s…

Like a good portion of the blogosphere (it sounds like) I have been playing with the new Google blog search — which technically speaking should be referred to as FeedSearch since…

I have just been pinged by the Pete Flint, the CEO of Trulia that their Real Estate search engine is now open for (beta) business. I had been aware of Pete’s plans for some time and found them interesting, but the…

Bill Burnham has again a great post regarding the things startups have to pay attention to in order to avoid any problem when they will be negotiating their exit through a trade sale…

Search Engine RoundTable points to a thread on WebMasterWorld related to the effectiveness, measured in revenues, of Google AdSense versus Yahoo Publisher Network. Message 9 provides a good summary: