2009 Year of the Ox - It’s going to be an exciting year ahead for startups in the tech scene. Historically speaking, economic uncertainty has been regarded as fertile soil for game changing startups. Most of the internet powerhouses (Google, Facebook, Digg) that emerged in this decade were conceived and developed during the last economic [...]

As online ads revenues continue to weaken, impression based models are taking a beating. Businesses continue to cut costs and the last thing they need is to advertise without any tangible returns.
Thinking fast on their feet, AdBrite is converting to a pay per click model. This is really where internet beats traditional media hands down. [...]

Online ad revenue for the top US players in online advertising; Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL has stopped in its tracks for Q3 of 2008. Less money for them means less money to be dispersed to bloggers and other ad-revenue based websites. Numbers wise, online ad growth from Q3/Q4 2007 was recorded at 12%, where as Q2/Q3 [...]

The FBFund started receiving applications August 2008 and receive 600 applications. 25 of these received $25K from Facebook. The real excitement is that the FBFund is divided into 2 stages, and Stage 2 is only open for developers who have won Stage 1.  Price money for Stage 2? a cool $250K.
I also wanted to point out [...]

Pay you to learn from Google’s best. What are you waiting for? sign up! 
When: Tuesday October 28th, 2008 1:00PM-10PM
Where: Singapore Management University
What: Google will be holding a DevFest Singapore. Join us for a day of coding and fun, where we’ll cover topics ranging from OpenSocial & App Engine to YouTube & the Google Maps API.
Who: You! Developers. Any [...]

A bungled con-job by CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and CFO Parrish Jones, 39. Both tried to make up numbers to attract venture capital. In dark times like these i suppose a shitty company needs all the made up numbers they could possibly get. Here is what they “faked”
2006, true $500K, false $4M
2007, true $1.4M, [...]

(creepy photo from Linda Gavin’s photostream on Flickr, its a little out of date, but im sure the sentiments above are echoed by the ones who got laid off) 
This is the latest in a series of revamping measures taken on by ebay. Some of you might have heard or are aware of ebays changes to [...]

Wide Touch Screen, Slide out keyboard, Trackball
American carrier Tmobile has revealed the G1, scheduled to hit markets on the 22nd of this month (oct). The G1 is then scheduled to be released to the UK in November and other Eu nations the following year. I’m sure we will start seeing the first few hacked units [...]