Rick Bolander says Facebook’s purchase of Instagram is an anomaly in the tech, Social Media space. In the third installment of my interview with the Managing Partner of Gabriel Venture Partners, Mr. Bolander explains his reasons for such a position. “Gabriel will never invest based on an anomaly,” he said. Moreover, Bolander observes that the
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Educators know best for children, not parents. So says Debbie Squires, public education official at the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association (MEMSPA) in regards to a new “school choice” package. Squires begins: “Educators go through education for a reason. They are the people who know best about how to serve children. That’s not necessarily
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According to TMZ.com, Doctor Conrad Murray will be sentenced at 8:30 AM PDT today, after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson on June 20, 2009. Its known that Conrad Murray’s lawyers are asking for the sentence to be probation, but given the circumstances – the death of Michael Jackson
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Today is a historic one in Egypt, as the nation holds its first elections in its history. According to Aljazeera, “large numbers” of voters turned out to participate in what is the first day of “a three-stage” election process. Egyptian voters are electing a new lower house of parliament today, and are choosing 168 of
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Zennie62.com is growing and now on WordPress, moved from Blogger.com. And while we like using Blogger, WordPress signals our objective of building a large blog system, similar to Demand Media or the Yahoo Publishers Network. To that end, we’re looking to build a base of 100 bloggers to start. Join Zennie62.com as a tech blogger
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According to a number of twitter tweets, the rumor is that famed Oakland lawyer Dan Siegel has resigned in response to the police action of clearing the Occupy Oakland encampment this Monday morning. The action, if true, will arguably pave the way for the recall of Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, as reported here last night.
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It’s funny who you run into while traveling around the country, as this blogger does. In this case, I happened to sit next to an engaging and talkative man who works for Microsoft. He proceeded to tell me a lot about the company that Bill Gates built and threw in some fascinating Google info, too,
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AMAZING. Shaker, the Facebook application that turns the social network Facebook into the second coming of Second Life, won TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 Startup Battlefield. The more detailed blog post was put off because it was time to party. And for good reason. It’s not often in life that a friend of yours is involved in
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The news is all over that TechCrunch Founder and Editor Michael Arrington may step down from running the blog not just to operate a new venture capital fund, but because the rumor is he was fired from AOL. What’s so weird is to read blog posts and articles that are dancing all over his grave,
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Google AdSense, the ad-serving system used on scores of blogs and websites, is generally favored over competitor services because of its higher “RPM” rate, or “Revenue Per Thousands Of Impressions.” This blogger has been a happy user of Google Adsense for years, as it’s coupled with the YouTube Partner Program – no complaints here. But
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The man called the “Oakland Cell Phone Rapist” has been arrested, and the victim contacted this blogger to offer her explanation of what happened that led up to the video. But before that, the arrest details. 47-year old Dion McDaniel arrested Wednesday and charged with burglary and rape. But, according to Henry K. Lee of
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The Green Lantern movie is litterally just out of the can, and already we have a YouTube-based spoiler leak of massive proportions. In the Green Lantern movie Thaal Sinestro starts as the mentor to new GL member Hal Jordan, and while the character played by Mark Strong winds up a villian, in the movie, he’s
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