Entrepreneurship, Innovation

After 500 Startups Demo Day on Thursday, I sat down to talk to investor Dave McClure about the strategy and vision behind the early stage seed fund and accelerator program, which he hopes will eventually encompass 500 actual startups (currently the portfolio is at around 110).

WorkSnug, the location-based service for mobile workers, has raised £110k in funding from nine UK-based Angel investors.

Bloomberg Businessweek now has an iPad version of the magazine available as an iTunes subscription for $2.99 a month. You get the same articles as in print, but in a decent, but dutiful iPad app.

Recent changes to Google's search algorithm have sought to reduce the rankings of what Google has described as "low quality" and "low value add" sites. And while some of these websites have seen a significant drop in traffic, we may find that content farms aren't eradicated. Rather, they're relocating. Impact Media's Mike Essex suggests their new destination may be e-books. On the Internet, many content farms are full of unoriginal content, often scraped from other sites, and republished under different headlines. The advent of easy self-publishing makes it incredibly simple for this process to be replicated in e-books.... (ReadWriteWeb: E-Books: The New Frontier for Content Farms http://bit.ly/f2QSL9)

Even before last Monday's roll-out of the new Cloud Drive, I was storing my files in the Amazon cloud. I use Amazon S3, its ...

Same old blog, brand new place (Doc Searls Weblog · Twitter failings http://bit.

Is there no end to the group buying craze? It seems not and today news comes that Huddlebuy, the 'Groupon for small businesses', has raised £350,000 in Angel funding.

IAC has had an agreement with Google for some time now to hand over all search advertising on Ask.com and other IAC sites to the search giant. In 2007, IAC extended the deal, which was worth $3.5 billion at the time, to end in 2012.