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What am I Missy

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Host Meliza Solan looks at top stories across VatorNews and offers an irreverent, curious and comical take on what's happening across technology news. The name "What am I Missy" is a play on Meliza's name, and was suggested by Guy Kawasaki.

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Merry Christmas from What am I Missy?

by Meliza Solan Surdi, December 21, 2008 | Comments (5)

Startup flip; Addicted micro-bloggers update to collaborate; It's time to dance

Looks like Santa gave an early Christmas present to Jason Goldberg, founder and CEO of Socialmedian. Goldberg sold his one-year-old news aggregation site to Xing for $7.5 million. Xing is a European social network that makes professional contact management simple, with made-to-measure networking functions and services. This is a successful startup story, and a one you don't hear everyday. Start ...

What am I Missy? Episode 6

by Meliza Solan Surdi, December 13, 2008 | Comments (2)

Layoffs and opportunities; Price tags save money; Be one with your team

For a while now, thousands of Yahoo employees have been on pins and needles about who'd be receiving pink slips. As expected, 1500 employees were recently let go. Among those sacked was George Oates, who was Flickr's chief designer, and a high-profile member of the popular photo-sharing site. Now where will all these good people go? Well, just a week ...

What am I Missy? Episode 5

by Meliza Solan Surdi, December 7, 2008 | Comments (6)

Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal; Duh... It's the debt crisis; Drew reveals his secret sauce

Let's take another glance at a couple of VatorNews articles and our top Lessons Learned story we covered last week. Will the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo ever die? It's been reported that Microsoft is thinking about buying Yahoo's search business for some $20 billion dollars. The report has been widely dismissed, as the price tag is well over Yahoo's ...

Top-story roundup, Episode 4

by Meliza Solan Surdi, November 30, 2008 | Comments

Nice try, Facebook; SEC calls for Prosper to shut down; Online shopping looking dismal

Here's three top stories we covered on VatorNews this past week. Can you believe Twitter turned down Facebook's half a billion dollar offer? Twitter, which was recently valued at about $100 million dollars, is also known as the fastest growing micro-blogging site. Facebook, the fastest growing social network, which was valued at an inflated $15 billion dollars, offered all stock ...

What am I Missy? Episode 3

by Meliza Solan Surdi, November 22, 2008 | Comments

Twitter downtime; Google's "Stickers" look; Yahoo CEO search

Here's three top stories we covered on VatorNews this past week. No. 3 - Twitter was experiencing maintenance issues one day last week. I have to admit, I did experience a moment of silence when the micro-blogging site went down. The ambient noise is much needed because the Web is just not the same without it! See: Hold those thoughts ...

What am I Missy? Episode 2

by Meliza Solan Surdi, November 16, 2008 | Comments (4)

Disappearing startups, Al Gore's speech, and a thought from Zuckerberg

Here's a look at top stories VatorNews covered last week.Has anyone seen 2004? How about 2005? As far as startups go, those years seem to have vanished. A prominent angel investor told us this week that valuations for the youngest startups have been slashed in half, back to where they were five years ago.And, we thought it was just the ...

What am I Missy?

by Meliza Solan Surdi, November 5, 2008 | Comments (3)

A look at some of the top stories we're... sort of covering on VatorNews

(This is a weekly, for now, look at some hot stories we're covering on VatorNews. Our friend Guy Kawasaki at AllTop recommended the name "What am I Missy" as a play on my name.)Is Facebook looking for green in the desert? The world's biggest social network is reportedly talking to potential investors in the kingdom of Dubai. While sources have ...

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