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Web 3.0 & Online Sports (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Aug 31st 2007

M&A and VC activity In February 2007, Sports Illustrated bought a 40% stake in the social networking site FanNation for $25 million, valuing the sports social network at $60 million. FanNation aggregates, filters, and customizes all the relevant player and team content available at any time on the Internet. Sports Illustrated has also entered into

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WebMD Has Tremendous Growth Ahead

Posted on Friday, Aug 31st 2007

If you have the problem of head lice or are looking for some of the best diet tips ever, chances are that you would head to WebMD’s (NASDAQ: WBMD) health portal to find your answers. More serious illnesses like Diabetes and Cancer drive tremendous traffic on health portals, WebMD being one of the largest in

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 12)

Posted on Friday, Aug 31st 2007

SM: How much do people need to learn to be able to optimize programs on the Tilera chips? AA: That depends on the applications and the domain. The good news is you have gotten something working and running. Once you have done that, you can then try various optimizations. You don’t have to read 50

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 12)

Posted on Friday, Aug 31st 2007

SM: Is this when you began to close the gap on Cisco? EB: There was one play that we used which enabled us to close in on Cisco, and we called it Boundary Routing. Cisco was driven to more complex solutions than us. They positioned routing as something of a magic art, very complicated and

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Web 3.0 & Online Sports (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 30th 2007

Web 3.0 formula discussion Context Most of the sports sites that I went through have very good contextual nuances. These sites have something for every sports fan. I liked the way sites like NBA.com, MLB.com and NFL.com have covered the respective sports. If you love Basketball and want to check out on some stat or

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Israel – Deal(s) of the Month (August 2007)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 30th 2007

By Danny Cohen, Guest Author After taking some time off (and as such, skipping the July report), I am taking another shot at reviewing important deals that happened in the Israeli market. Like in Europe and the US, Israel slows down during the summer time. However, a few important deals were announced. A few deals

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 11)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 30th 2007

One of the greatest challenges with Massively Parallel Computing is Programmability. Anant explains Tilera’s approach to software and tools in more detail, and his “gentle slope programming” concept. SM: You created all of the tools from scratch, or did you base them on existing tools? AA: We invented all of this, and it is very

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 11)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 30th 2007

SM: Did the market understand your positioning as an integrated networking solution? EB: I think they did. Of course we were coming from behind in routers, and we were behind SynOptics in hubs, and we were behind others in single categories. We started to strengthen our position in all our segments, and this helped because

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