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Global Entrepreneurship Week!
GEW or Global Entrepreneurship Week is a week long celebration of entrepreneurship with events.
visit www.gewmalaysia.com for more details. YOU can participate in the activities as a Partner or an Attendee, so check it out.
It is also the reason why i’ve not been blogging recently because ive been busy as hell helping them out. It’s been an honor to work with Dash, Vivian and Hui Sen. It’s not often you find people so highly motivated to succeeed at what they do, it inspires motivation in myself as well. Props to you guys.
Read Dash’s blog post about our work on the website here.
(creepy photo from Linda Gavin’s photostream on Flickr, its a little out of date, but im sure the sentiments above are echoed by the ones who got laid off)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 it’s marketplace regulations designed to bring in more people to the ebay trading platform (but pissed off some existing ones). Anyway, now it’s gone internal. These 1600 jobs (1000 of these were fulltime employees) come from all over the world including their san jose HQ. They are expecting about $80M in costs to let these guys go and about $150M in cost savings every year. sure they are..
They claim to want to use the cash saved to reinvest in growth areas like Paypal, which they recently bolstered their position with an aquisition of a company called www.billmelater.com. Billmelater consolidates your shopping expenses and sends you a bill at the end of the month. Its kinda cool really. but another story for another time.
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 here soon.
The G1 is powered by Android, google open source mobile O/S, a step to establish Google’s presence firmly in the mobile market. The developer community is just itching to develop killer apps on Android and that’ll probably be a big deciding factor in how far G1 will go.
Warhammer online is a newly launched and pretty popular MMORPG. Other famous MMORPGs include names such as World of Warcraft (WoW), Lineage, this list goes on forever. Anyway, one thing that they all have in common is that studies show that 22% of players(Deadalus Project Survey) on an MMORPG platform have bought or will buy virtual currency in order to upgrade in their in-game characters. In order for them to purchase gold, someone has to sell it, and this is what Mark Jacobs has to say about it.
“Let me tell you this. I’ve been offered “a piece of the action” both personally and corporately in the past if I will either turn a blind eye or help them in their actions. This would have netted me and/or Mythic a very, very tidy sum, far more than we would see from box sales. My answer was and always will remain the same: Go to hell.”
Some of you might or might not be aware, Malaysia has 2 homegrown companies that thrive on this industry. MOL and Offgamers. There is an abundance of demand for in-game trading and it is a growing market. (update: MOL told me that they too, take the moral highground and DO NOT support gold trading that the game publishers themselves do not allow in the first place. Reason being, a good working relationship with game publishers is worth more to them in the long term). In that sense, I dont necessarily think taking a moral high ground position might be beneficial for the overall business for Warhammer, but Mark Jacobs himself has said, its not about the money.
Japanese manufacturing company Murata creates a creepy girl robot that rides a unicycle.
she looks creepy as hell with one glowing green eye. Creepiness aside, its a pretty impressive technological achievement with the gyros and balancing. It takes millions of small corrections per second to achieve the kind of balance in the rather un-impressive video you are looking at. other than that, the creep green eye is used to measure distance via some kinda ultrasound sensor, so that the murata girl keeps her distance from objects and doesnt knock into them. take a look at the video!
so this dude buys a camera on ebay (a nikon coolpix) and was rewarded by … tada! pictures of guys like this
Picture of a 46-year-old top al Qeada operative Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi, who was captured by the CIA in 2007, as well as various other non-released shots of weapons, agent identities etc. well done james bond!
The Nikon Coolpix camera was snapped up for just £17 on the auction website by an innocent 28-year-old deliveryman who lives with his mum. The dude went straight to the bobbys and got laughed at for making stuff up. A week later, things weren’t so funny anymore as Mi-6 agents rang his doorbell and took away his harddrive and other stuff.. they reimbursed him a cool £1000 though.
Read the full story here http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1749217.ece
I’m sure if you’re in with the tech scene or web2.0 type stuff, this is some info that will appeal to you, so take a look.
From top to bottom, heres a list of startups that raise $25M or more during the last 2 years.
- Facebook
- $455M - ZeniMax - $310M
- Nanosolar - $300M
- OverSee - $210M
- OANDA - $200M
- Kayak - $196M
- GridPoint - $167M
- Plastic Logic - $150M
- eSolar - $140M
- Demand Media - $135M
- SulfurCell - $134M
- Modu - $120M
- United Mobile - $115M
- Zhaopin - $110M
- Ning - $104M
- Glam Media - $104M
- hulu - $100M
- 9You - $100M
- Specificmedia - $100M
- SpinVox - $100M
- Rearden Commerce - $100M
- Ausra - $97.8M
- CDNetworks - $96.5M
- Move Networks - $91.3M
- Spot Runner - $91M
- Tesla Motors - $85M
- Big Fish Games - $83.3M
- Realtime Worlds - $81M
- Adconion Media Group - $80M
- The Active Network - $80M
- HelioVolt - $77M
- Youku - $77M
- Datapipe - $75M
- Trion World Network - $70M
- Arcadian Networks - $70M
- Vantage Media - $70M
- A123Systems - $70M
- Boston Power - $68.6M
- Infinia - $66.5M
- LinkedIn - $65.8M
- Fisker - $65M
- Brightcove - $64.4M
- SilkRoad technology - $64M
- Coremetrics - $60M
- ReachLocal - $55.2M
- Veoh - $55M
- Federated Media - $54.5M
- Slacker - $53.5M
- RockYou - $52.5M
- 51.com - $51M
- HealthCentral - $50M
- ChannelAdvisor - $50M
- Blowtorch - $50M
- GarageGames - $50M
- Revolution Money - $50M
- Slide - $50M
- Strands - $49M
- obopay - $49M
- JumpTap - $48M
- ice - $47M
- Greenplum - $46M
- Internet Mall - $45M
- Clear - $44.4M
- Jingle Networks - $43M
- Avail Media - $42M
- Metaweb Technologies - $42M
- BitTorrent - $42M
- Amobee - $42M
- Enforta - $40M
- Undertone Networks - $40M
- Turbine - $40M
- Pure Digital Technologies - $40M
- Trilliant - $40M
- SiBEAM - $40M
- Teneros - $40M
- SearchMe - $39.6M
- fabrik - $39.2M
- Zynga - $39M
- Turn - $38.5M
- LifeLock - $37.9M
- Digg - $37.2M
- GreatCall - $36.6M
- Segway - $35M
- hi5 - $35M
- Bestofmedia Group - $35M
- Yodlee - $35M
- Angie’s List - $35M
- Lehigh Technologies - $34.5M
- Sermo - $34.5M
- ooma - $34M
- meebo - $34M
- Dailymotion - $34M
- Clearspring - $33.5M
- XunLight - $33M
- Cuil - $33M
- Seatwave - $33M
- Dilithium Networks - $33M
- Waterfront Media - $33M
- Mzinga - $32.5M
- Vanu - $32M
- Vuze - $32M
- PicScout - $32M
- Pando - $31.9M
- Etsy - $31.3M
- BuzzNet - $31M
- Global Roaming - $30.5M
- NebuAd - $30.2M
- MFG - $30M
- Zillow - $30M
- GodTube - $30M
- 56.com - $30M
- Zazzle - $30M
- Metacafe - $30M
- Batanga - $30M
- VideoJug - $30M
- Eyeblaster - $30M
- badoo - $30M
- Viagogo - $30M
- IGA Worldwide - $30M
- Leapfrog on-line - $30M
- MobiTV - $30M
- MOLI - $29.6M
- Automattic - $29.5M
- Intacct - $29M
- Genius - $29M
- Kosmix - $28M
- LiveOps - $28M
- RadioFrame - $28M
- PGP Corporation - $27.3M
- Milestone Systems - $27M
- Palo Alto Networks - $27M
- Tideway - $27M
- BlackArrow - $26.8M
- ChoiceStream - $26.5M
- Ruckus - $26M
- ContextWeb - $26M
- Solarflare - $26M
- Quantcast - $25.7M
- Become - $25.5M
- Mimeo - $25M
- Reunion - $25M
- Gemini - $25M
- PharmaNation - $25M
- InMage Systems - $25M
- Aurora Biofuels - $25M
- Nimbuzz - $25M
- Firefly Energy - $25M
- Yelp - $25M
- Meraki - $25M
- Dash - $25M
- Retail Convergence - $25M
- Trulia - $25M
- SpringSource - $25M
- Zecco - $25M
- Koolanoo Group - $25M
- Verimatrix - $25M
- Optaros - $25M
- Visible World - $25M
- Splunk - $25M
- DeviceVM - $25M
The picture of the lady you see below is one of Teresa Kok, an opposition political party member as well as a member of parliament. She was recently detained under some half century old bullshit law that doesnt give her the right to a trial. Anyway she was released and this happened to her. Some dudes threw molotov cocktails at her house along with this note. Now this whole incident isnt funny and i think things are prettyyy tensed around this topic but i did wanna point ONE thing.
“Cibai Lu” (roughly translated to “You vagina you”), published all over a national paper.
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/28/nation/2142663&sec=nation
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