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Involver co-founders turn it over to a software vet

by John Shinal, September 7, 2011 | Comments

ex-Webroot exec Don Beck replaces Rahim Fazal as CEO of Involver

Involver co-founder and CEO Rahim Fazal turned over the reins of the fast-growing social media marketing company on Tuesday to Internet software veteran Don Beck, formerly head of the global sales organization at security software-maker Webroot. Fazal co-founded the company with Involver CTO Noah Horton in 2007. The San Francisco-based startup makes a software platform that allows other companies -- ...

Facebook cracks Top 10 in Web site visitors

by John Shinal, February 19, 2009 | Comments

January site visits surged, before this month's privacy fiasco

Before Facebook got into another hornets' nest over privacy this past week, it continued to show strong growth in its number of unique visitors.Based on comScore's latest numbers, for the month of January, Facebook climbed one spot from last month and was the tenth-most popular Web site, with 57.2 million visitors. That total was more than 50 percent higher than ...

Jeff Clavier's current investing strategy

by John Shinal, November 26, 2008 | Comments

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Angel investor raises the bar for startups who want funding

Angel investor Jeff Clavier hasn't changed the pace of his investments despite the economic turmoil. He's still investing in about two new Web 2.0 companies per month. But Clavier has tightened up the requirements for early-stage startups that want his money.They now need to have the company's product, business model and launch figured out in advance, rather still be experimenting.The ...

Fire sales coming for private tech companies

by John Shinal, November 26, 2008 | Comments

	Tim Miller of 451 Group says big corporate buyers on the hunt October has historically been a very bad month for the U.S. stock market. This year, the big-time pain started in September and is still going. But, as a hedge fund manager once told me, it only hurts if you're selling.If you're a big strategic buyer with a long-term time horizon, a lot of smaller tech firms -- both public and ...
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Gift-buying elves abandoning online shopping

by John Shinal, November 25, 2008 | Comments

Grinch-like economy stifling holiday sales

Holiday shopping online is shaping up to be as bad as the bricks-and-mortar variety this year.One-third of the 500 consumers polled for the survey said they haven't begun their holiday shopping yet. ComScore says e-commerce has dropped 4% for the first three weeks of November compared to a year ago, and the market research firm predicts sales for the entire ...

First signs of fiscal discipline at Google?

by John Shinal, November 24, 2008 | Comments

Search giant shutters virtual world Lively after just four months

Is Google starting to impose some semblance of fiscal discipline on its creative troops? Now that the search giant has decided to shutter its virtual world, called Lively, after just a few months, it's a question that's at least worth asking.Until last week, it's answer has been an obvious 'no'. Perhaps no other U.S. company has funded as wide a ...

First, the moon, then, the grid

by John Shinal, November 20, 2008 | Comments

	Gore says Obama should issue Kennedy-esque challenge to young engineers We choose to fix the grid. That's the kind of challenge that Al Gore would like to hear from Barack Obama when he takes office as U.S. President in January. Gore says the millions of young people who helped elect Obama need a challenge to mobilize them. At the same time, the economy needs a boost and oh, by the ...
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Jeff Clavier on Mark Zuckerberg's luxury

by John Shinal, November 20, 2008 | Comments

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Facebook likely the only private company that doesn't have to worry about revenue

Startup executives at Web 2.0 companies typically are focused on goals like turning site traffic into revenue as quickly as possible. But not Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.Based on comments he made to the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Facebook is more focused on user growth than on generating revenue.That statement reveals just how unique the company's position is right ...

Tech stocks pounded back to 2003

by John Shinal, November 19, 2008 | Comments

Fed's fears of multi-year recession crush stock indexes

Public stocks, like private-company valuations, have just completed a five-year time warp.The U.S. stock market got crushed today after a transcript of the Federal Reserve's latest meeting showed that the nation's top bankers fear the recession will last at least a year.No sector was spared, with everything from bank stocks to airlines to tech shares getting hit. The Nasdaq is ...

Ballmer plays yo-yo with Yahoo's stock

by John Shinal, November 19, 2008 | Comments (1)

Microsoft has firm upper hand - maybe two of them - in any talks

Want to see how much negotiating power Yahoo will have in any talks with Microsoft?Take a look at what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did to Yahoo's stock today simply by saying he's no longer interested in an acquisition, but is interested in a deal for the Internet giant's search business. Ballmer pushed them down 18%, a day after they'd risen ...

Online spending growth grinds to halt

by John Shinal, November 19, 2008 | Comments

Economic downturn hits e-commerce hard in October

The recession has come to the Web.Online spending growth slowed to just 1 percent in October from a year earlier, the weakest since comScore began tracking e-commerce seven years ago.The rate has been in the single digits for the last four months, and the latest figure is a dramatic fall-off from the same time last year, when e-commerce was growing ...

Video ad growth will take time, measurement

by John Shinal, November 13, 2008 | Comments (1)

Brand advertisers not demanding stand-alone video spending

Clients of the biggest ad agencies aren't yet enthusiastic about spending money on Web video ads, and a few things need to change before they embrace it, a panel of digital ad execs told the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco.The biggest barrier is time, as ad spenders and buyers are still trying to figure out where they want to spend ...

Hulu goosing Fox's online numbers, CEO says

by John Shinal, November 13, 2008 | Comments

Startup is "neurotic" about pleasing users, advertisers

The CEO of Hulu says the online video service is making a big impact on the Internet business of Fox and other networks that supply it content. "Fox's overall online business has more than tripled since Hulu launched" on March 12, CEO Jason Kilar told an audience at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco. Kilar cited market share numbers ...

Why developers prefer iPhone to WindowsMobile

by John Shinal, November 12, 2008 | Comments

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PhunkWare's founder says Apple's OS makes it easier to focus on features

If you've ever wondered why the iPhone has all the cool applications, just ask Stan Miasnikov.As the founder of software developer PhunkWare explains in this video, Apple's integrated hardware and operating system lets his company focus on coding features, rather than spending time on the user interface.PhunkWare had its handwriting-recognition software, WritePad, approved for the iPhone App Store, where it's ...

Three years of Google stock gains erased

by John Shinal, November 12, 2008 | Comments

Search giant shares at lowest level since 2005 as analyst cut forecasts

On Wall Street, they call it a round trip, and Google's stock just took one lasting three years. Shares of the search giant fell through the $300 mark today for the first time since October, 2005, showing that even highly-profitable tech firms aren't immune to the panic gripping the stock market.The latest leg down came after at least two Wall ...

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