The WSJ has a good article on Silicon Valley’s war for talent (paid registration required, unfortunately), which has been driven largely by Google, eBay, Yahoo, and Amazon.
Google, for example, is apparently hiring about 10 people a day. To do so, the company has increased the size of its recruiting team to about [...]
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A few observations from the Web 2.0 conference:
Google’s influence was almost everywhere. On the positive side, as Mary Meeker pointed out, Google has given many startups an advertising-based business model: while the company generated $1.4B in Q2 revenue, Google also paid out $494M in the same time period to thousands of partners (though programs [...]
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I’ll be at the web 2.0 conference next week. If you’re going and would like to meet, send me an email.
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Interest in Ajax continues to increase, which is somewhat surprising considering that its constituent components have been around for 5+ years. In fact, Microsoft was one of the earliest to adopt Ajax (they used XMLHTTP in an earlier version of Outlook Web Access). Google, however, popularized the development technique by launching Maps, Gmail, [...]
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Continuing the discussion of web 2.0 investment strategies: here’s a link to the presentation eBay is using to explain the Skype acqusition (thanks Anthony). Worth a quick scan.
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