Topic: Mountain View (California)

Launch: Silicon Valley 2009

Starting a tech business in good times takes guts--more than 60% of new ones fail in four recession-free years. These days, you need courage, chutzpah, and an extra measure of je ne sais quoi. A chance to woo investors helps; ...READ»

Under the Radar Conference Preview: GoodRec

We live in a recommended world. Seemingly every website offers opinions on something. And recommendation-only sites, such as Yelp, are growing in popularity. GoodRec offers a lightweight, socially focused recommendation service that's very addictive.READ»

• Under the Radar Conference Preview: Smule

Dotcom Debutantes

Momentum Growth Conference October 4 Mountain View, California The annual Momentum Growth Conference gives 15 private companies poised for an IPO or big-money acquisition the chance to strut their stuff for investors. ...READ»

Under the Radar Conference: Live from the Internet

If you want to check out today's Under the Radar event and you're not in California, you're not left out -- UTR will be live streaming the festivities via Ustream.READ»

• Under the Radar Conference Preview: MoFuse
• Under the Radar Conference Preview: Palringo

Under the Radar Conference Preview: Smule

Next Wednesday, November 12, an impressive gathering of startups and mobile-industry poohbahs from major VCs from firms such as Kleiner Perkins to executives from companies such as T-Mobile, AT&T, CBS, Verizon, Alltel, Comcast, ...READ»

A New Brand You II

That reminds me of the 2002 PepsiCo proposal that Mountain View, California, change its name to Mountain Dew. Not too many years before that, Half.com persuaded residents of Halfway, Oregon, to change their town's name. Bizarre ...READ»

Google Ups IPO Price

Google intends to raise more money from its much sought-after IPO. The search-engine giant increases the size of its IPO by $1.1 billion on Monday and says it aims at a price range of $108 to $135 per share for 24.64 million ...READ»

Under the Radar Conference Preview: Pixelpipe

Once you start to use even three social media services--and who among us isn't on Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr, to name three -- managing them can become a huge pain. Enter Pixelpipe.READ»

• Under the Radar Conference Preview: GoodRec
• Under the Radar Conference Preview: Smule

Under the Radar Conference Preview: Phonevite

We all saw the power of community organizing this year. You may just be running a weekly conference call or a kids' soccer team, but Phonevite lets you tap into the power of one-to-many calling services.READ»

• Under the Radar Conference Preview: Pixelpipe
• Under the Radar Conference Preview: GoodRec

Welcome to the Auditorium

Auditorium lets hundreds of people meet without ever leaving their desks.READ»

Under the Radar Conference Preview: Palringo

As popular as instant messaging is on the desktop, it hasn't quite taken off the same way on mobile devices. Palringo is trying to bring a smarter brand of IM, designed from the start for handhelds, to our mobile world.READ»

• Under the Radar Conference Preview: Hook Mobile
• Under the Radar Conference Preview: Phonevite

Calling All Web Sites

Leave your laptop at home! With the Web-on-Call Voice Browser, surfing the Net is as easy as dailing the phone.READ»

Job Morph: Herding Cats

How Mozilla motivates workers who aren't actually on the payroll.READ»

Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock

In December, Fast Company published an article called "The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0" featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 world. The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des ...READ»

Hold The Phone

Internet telephony is cheap: "The economics finally make sense." But as more and more companies are discovering, it also can let you do some nifty things. Voice over Internet protocol technology is keeping workers--in hospitals, Wall Street brokerages, law firms, even National Basketball Association franchises--connected as never before.READ»

Momentum Growth Conference: Kayak Has Momentum and Your Vote.

The polls have closed and the clear winner is Kayak, the online travel search site. In just two years, Kayak has emerged as a consumer favorite, and consistently receives high marks in travel site rankings. And now, they'll be ...READ»

VeriSign: How to Get Big and Stay Fast

The CEO of this Silicon Valley powerhouse explains how and why his company is still hiring talented people and signing on new clients during an industrywide slowdown.READ»

Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

Under the Radar Conference Preview: Hook Mobile

Only about 25% of U.S. cell-phone customers have a data plan. So the mass of users generally can't access multimedia content on their phone without incurring unwanted fees. Hook Mobile is a platform that acts as a go-between for ...READ»

• Under the Radar Conference Preview: Phonevite
• Under the Radar Conference Preview: Pixelpipe

So You Want to Work at Google?

Google is the fastest-growing company ever, according to the consulting firm Deloitte.READ»

Conspiracy of Change

How do you overthrow a successful company? Intuit, one of the world's great software firms, was on the verge of losing its leadership position. Until it vowed to reinvent itself.READ»

Are High-Tech Women Crashing?

A new study by Deloitte Touche concludes that women in technology-driven companies are still bumping their heads on a glass ceiling -- and that if they had it to do over again, they'd choose another field. But might there be another way to read the data -- and to explain the problem?READ»

Growth That Doesn't Quit

How do you stay on the growth track during an economic slump? Some of the best new thinking comes from VeriSign and BEA Systems, two Silicon Valley companies that have figured out how to be recession-proof.READ»

Free Minds

Bet the CompanyREAD»

6 Ways Google Has Greened Its Main Campus

Google has made waves in the greentech world with its multi-million dollar geothermal and solar power investments, its plans to build a wave-powered data center, and its proclamation that it wants to make clean energy cheaper than ...READ»