Every year for the past 13, the business and technology forum Churchill Club of Silicon Valley has held a very popular annual dinner where about five tech forecasters and finance people offer up their predictions on what’s coming next in technology in the next three years. On the panel tonight at the venerable Santa Clara Marriott [...]
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One of the hottest products in the tech business these days are devices intended to bring the Web onto your television. Whether it’s Google TV, Roku, Boxee, Sezmi, Tivo, or any of many other devices, they’re all aimed at taking the Web into the last place it hasn’t yet caught on: your living room. Today [...]
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Michael Moritz, perhaps the key partner at Sequoia Capital, is “the most powerful venture capitalist in Silicon Valley,” says TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington. Moritz is onstage with Steve Streit, founder and CEO of financial services company Green Dot, a Sequoia-backed company that went public in July at a $2 billion valuation. They’ll be talking about [...]
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Now we’re on to the fireside chat with Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn prolific angel investor, and VC David Sze. They’re both partners at Greylock Partners. TechCrunch editors Mike Arrington and Erick Schonfeld are moderating. Hoffman: Today, we’re announcing Greylock Discovery Fund, a $20 million seed fund to operate very quickly to invest in startups [...]
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The upcoming panel at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week suddenly became the flashpoint for the show last week when TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington wrote a blog post on how he crashed a dinner of angel investors and accused them of collusion. A maelstrom of charges, leaked emails, and countercharges ensued. Now [...]
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Google is such a business powerhouse that people sometimes forget that every single penny depends on the research of thousands of engineers toiling in the bowels of the Googleplex. That’s why I always like to hear what Google’s rocket scientists have to say. This morning, at the Search Marketing Expo, Pete Norvig, Google’s director of [...]
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I just foolishly offered some predictions on what will happen in tech and and on the Internet this year (and what won’t happen). Now, I’d like to offer a few things that I wish would happen: * Cell phones provide decent call quality. I really don’t get folks who don’t have a landline, because cell [...]
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