Archives: Robert Scoble Sell Out Complete

Update to our January post: Super blogger Robert Scoble, who has argued that having advertisements on blogs destroys trust, added advertisements to his blog today along with a redesign. At least it’s clear now who scratches Scoble’s back - Seagate.
One thing I do like - the FriendFeed widget that shows his activity stream and comments […]

Meet Watercooler, a startup developing social network applications for all the usual suspects - Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, and Friendster - that allow fans to rally around their favorite sports teams and TV shows.
The Mountain View-based firm raised a previously undisclosed $4M in Series A funding from Canaan Partners this past September. While it’s been […]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested $3 million into user-generated casual gaming site Kongregate through Bezos Expeditions, his personal investment vehicle. Kongregate CEO calls it a “super angel round,” although technically it is a B1 round (the startup raised $5 million in a round led by Greylock). Bezos Expeditions won’t be taking a […]

Drama over. The CrunchGear/TechCrunch Iron Man screening, which Marvel tried to shut down yesterday for no good reason whatsoever (more on that below), is back on.
We are adding another 30 spots on the wait list. At least most of the people on the wait list will get in, so if you’re willing to risk […]

Posted by Ben Worthen
An unheralded team from Baker College in Flint, Mich., won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship, after a competition filled with real-life information-technology tasks like writing reports and fighting off hackers.

Brandon Hladysh with the championship trophy

In Collegiate Cyber Defense, created in 2005, teams of eight act as tech administrators, managing hardware […]

Posted by Ben Worthen
The H-1B visa program is often described as a way to get “the best and the brightest” tech workers from other countries into the U.S. But a new study suggests that description may not be deserved.

What’s your verdict on the H-1B program?

Norman Matloff, a professor at the University of California, Davis, examined […]

Posted by Ben Worthen

Police can look through your digital files more quickly thanks to Microsoft

* Oracle completed its acquisition of BEA Systems today, officially bringing an end to the last big protracted tech acquisition prior to MicrosoftÂ’s bid for Yahoo. BEA is smaller and less sexy than Yahoo – it makes software that helps […]

Posted by Ben Worthen
The “geek defense” came up short, a setback for one techie but a giant leap for techie kind.

Geeks aren’t so different, a jury concluded

The strategy was employed in the defense of Hans Reiser, a computer programmer on trial for allegedly murdering his estranged wife. The case was an unusual one: There was […]

Posted by Rebecca Buckman
WhatÂ’s old is new again in some areas of business technology–and attracting lots of venture-capital cash.

Intacct is hoping its comeback is as successful as Mariah’s

A case in point: Intacct, a now-hot Web company, born in the original dot-com boom, that just raised $15 million in new financing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Emergence […]

Posted by Ben Worthen
British art-rock band Coldplay is releasing its new single on its Web site free of charge today, the latest band to experiment with new distribution models made possible by the Internet. This once again raises the question: Why canÂ’t businesses be more like rock stars?

Yup, these guys just released a single

ColdplayÂ’s […]