Google has plans to increase its use of semantic search in its search engine, providing users with more than just the standard set of key-word inspired links but actual facts and direct…
Study: Pinterest Dishes Out More Referral Traffic than Twitter
Despite still being in invite only, Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than one of the biggest referral birds of them all, Twitter. The digital collage of users’ web interests beat out…
A Conversation with InterWest Partner Keval Desai
An Exciting Era for Investors in the Age of Innovation At the Red Herring Global 100 this past December in Los Angeles, Keval Desai, a partner at InterWest Partners, discussed where to…
iPad 3: Apple Debuts the Next Generation Device
Apple debuted the next generation of the iPad, which sports 2048 x 1536 pixels in super high resolution “Retina” display that’s four times that of its predecessors. Offering more than 1 million…
14 Million New Jobs to Land from The Cloud by 2015
Cloud-based services will create 14 million new jobs by 2015, a recent study commissioned by Microsoft in collaboration with the research firm IDC predicts. Though half of those jobs will be in…
IBM SmartCamp: Innovation Through Collaboration
This Year’s IBM’s SmartCamp Gathers the Hottest Startups Forget capture the flag. Startup campers at IBM’s SmartCamp play nab the investment dollar. Designed to encourage global innovation, SmartCamp connects the hottest startups…
Yammer Nabs $85M in IPO-Sized Investment
Yammer, the private social network, has nabbed $85 million, the company recently announced. This brings the company’s total investments to $142 million. At nearly a billion dollars, this latest round gives the…
Facebook’s Lifeline Helps Digg Out of the Grave
Just as the gravediggers were readying Digg on their to-do list, Facebook came to the company’s rescue, adding a Digg Social Reader application to Timeline. January saw Facebook referral traffic for the…
New Silicon Carbon Battery Doubles Battery Life, Opens Road to Long Distance Electric Cars
A company founded in a Palo Alto public library has created a new silicon carbon battery that carries roughly twice as much energy per gram as current batteries, opening up the road…
Let the Games Begin – Yahoo Slaps Facebook With Patent Fees
Biting the hand that feeds it, Yahoo slapped Facebook with a demand for fees on 10 to 20 patents, threatening to sue if the social media company failed to comply. The patents…