• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 4, 2008

Bridge (to nowhere) financing is dead

Howard Hartenbaum says fewer debt deals bodes well for early-stage funds and VCs

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 4, 2008

Yollege: A promising college review site

Venrock's Brian Ascher is our guest host, evaluating Yollege

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 3, 2008

Yahoo search biz, worth more like $2 bln

Analyst dismisses $20 bln price tag for portal's search unit

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 3, 2008

Emerging sectors Ron Conway would bet on

Crowd-sourcing search, Cloud computing, and How-to sites

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 2, 2008

Jon Miller - ideal CEO candidate for Yahoo

If he doesn't buy the portal for $30 bln, he'd still be good at leading it

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 1, 2008

MyPod and boomsticks

The Simpsons, Apple and Hulu

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 1, 2008

Trafffic up at e-tailers, but spending...?

EBay, Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target were top destinations online on Black Friday

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 1, 2008

Holiday e-sales to be down high single digits

But Amazon, eBay, Wal-Mart.com as shoppers turn to the Web for discounts

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 1, 2008

How tough is it to get VC financing?

Venrock partner Brian Ascher says his firm is still placing money; but the bar is raised

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• December 1, 2008

Buzznet: Celeb site gets worked over

Venrock's Brian Ascher offers frank advice as our guest host

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• November 28, 2008

NYTimes, WSJ - increasingly commoditized

What happened to exclusivity and proprietary information, photos, etc.?

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• November 28, 2008

Apple's Black Friday sale - lame

Don't expect to get any decent discounts; and iPhone or MacBook Air are off limits

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• November 28, 2008

Twitter - World's biggest 24-hour newsroom

Micro-blogging site takes news feeds to a new level

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• November 26, 2008

Eye-witness Twitter - on Mumbai bomb blast

Citizen journalism provides up-to-the-minute reporting of terrorist attack

• Bambi Francisco Roizen
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• November 26, 2008

Google's Marissa Mayer on search evolution

Google executive on search iterations, such as Twitter, Cuil, human-powered search