Cathy Halligan is the senior vice president of sales and marketing for PowerReviews. Prior to joining PowerReviews, she was chief marketing officer and vice president of product management and multichannel integration at Walmart. Halligan also held executive positions at Williams-Sonoma, Gymboree and Lands’ End.
Google is at the social game again with the recent unveiling of Google+, a big bet for the company and an effort to show that it can keep up with Facebook in this increasingly important space.
The interview series continues with Mr. Chernyak .
Chernyak Dmitry Aleksandrovich (Русский: Черняк Дмитрий Александрович; Moscow (Soviet Union) 1964) is a Russian-born a Business Angel who impressively influences on set of startups and their future. He completed successfully the program of higher technical education and master’s degree in business administration program. Сurrently lives in Frankfurt (Germany). After university, began working as an engineer at MENATEP with Mikhail Khodorkovsky initial development of the company. Then followed his own business and some small projects in the field of computer technology.
Should you post photos to Twitter via its new photo-uploading tool, or through a third-party photo-sharing service such as yFrog, TwitPic or Instagram, your photos will soon be featured on your Twitter profile in an image gallery.
A week ago, Fox changed its licensing rules so that non-paying users of Hulu would be unable to watch new episodes of their shows until eight days after their air date. Put on your analyst hat and think about what effect this might have on, say, piracy of those shows. Did you determine that it would increase piracy? Congratulations, you are a better judge of consequences than Fox. Because piracy of Fox shows went up by a huge amount during this last week.
Понедельник, 22 Августа 2011 г. 18:44
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For years, few people knew about HBGary Inc., a Sacramento tech firm working on the esoteric frontiers of cybersecurity.
Then a bizarre episode turned the 30-employee firm into a combination global laughingstock and villain.
Понедельник, 22 Августа 2011 г. 18:44
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This next generation of employees is crying out for authentic leaders. They want to follow someone who is real; someone who is the genuine article. One young professional said to me recently: “The only thing worse than being uncool is being fake.”
Понедельник, 22 Августа 2011 г. 18:43
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Skype will acquire group messaging service GroupMe, a service that was born at a hackathon in New York in 2010. GroupMe was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.
Понедельник, 22 Августа 2011 г. 12:30
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Continuing a series interviews with the most interesting people from all over the specification (not just online, but also the financial market or development). Today our interview with Robert Kiraz, CEO of Vokle, an online platform that creates a virtual online auditorium. He talks to us about seed funding and future ambitions to impact on the traditional television market.okle is a live town hall platform that allows speakers to broadcast their live video and audio to a virtual auditorium of viewers and take live video calls and text questions from the audience. Hosts can assign roles to any attendee in the audience. Whether it be co-host(s) for the event, screener(s) to screen callers privately behind the scenes, or an editor to cut between video streams live. The entire application is a microsite, allowing it to be embedded anywhere as easily as a youtube video, giving each event the potential for endless access points without ever redirecting the audience from the site they’re on.
Shafiu Hussain, An Entrepreneur and a geek from Maldives. Currently he is the CTO of Octove. Octove is a Social network with loads of intresting things targeted for South East Asian market. Also he started a cellphone to web live video streaming startup (called molv) and it has been acquired by Octove and they will soon be launching cellphone to web live video streaming for Octove users.
Воскресенье, 14 Августа 2011 г. 06:24
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Time for another installment in interview series, this time it’s Dmitry Jigalov from promising startup Dvizhu-Video. Mr. Jigalov is a serial entrepreneur who has a wide experience in consumer electronics and direction with portable devices.