Archive for September, 2007

Xing releases new features, in challenge to LinkedIn

Two days ago, we reported that LinkedIn had finally added profile pictures to their features list. Now a competitor, Xing, is announcing a slew of new features.
Xing already had profile images. Its users will now have the ability to include more personal information on their profiles, including details about past positions, and a field showing [...]

Q&A: Google’s Andy Tian on China’s mobile market

China has 516 million mobile subscribers, the most in the world. It dwarfs India’s 201 million.
We recently spoke with Andy Tian (pictured), who is in charge of Google’s strategic mobile partnerships in China.
Google has decided [...]

Sony now streaming music for free on imeem

Sony has become the latest music label to offer its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists.
Warner Music Group did the same in July (our coverage). It’s significant because its one more fissure in the once united stance among music labels to [...]

Jajah releases in-email calling, for free

Jahah, the Internet telephone company, has introduced a new service that lets you make free calls from email from a one-click calling button.
Its button also works from websites, blogs or social network profiles.
It’s just the latest innovation in the Internet telephone world, where start-ups are delivering an array of buttons letting you make free calls. [...]

Starting a company? Your value could be pretty high…

…if you move quickly, that is.
If you’re starting a company and raising a first round of capital, you’re raising money on the most favorable terms since the end of the last bubble. The latest data available gathered from the secretive world of venture capital show that the median value of a company raising a first [...]