Silicon Valley Newswire

A service of Silicon Valley Watcher. News, events, columns, blog posts, job postings, videos and images from people and companies in and beyond Silicon Valley. Content in red is directly quoted from the source. Content in green shows a money relationship with SV Newswire. All other content is from SV Newswire editors.

Location based healthy eating guidance from WebDiet

September 8, 2008 –

No matter where you are, Webdiet says it can provide you with healthy eating advice and meal suggestions. Read More »

By editor | Posted in Companies, webdiet | Comments (0)

Phototrade offers commercial platform for amateur and pro photos

September 8, 2008 –

Phototrade is offering a commercial platform that lets all types of photographers share and sell their photos. Here are the details: Read More »

By editor | Posted in Companies | Comments (0)

Rebus ushers in a true paperless office with image search

September 8, 2008 –

Rebus says it has removed the last barrier to a paperless office because its new software can find PDfs and scanned documents. Read More »

By editor | Posted in Companies | Comments (0)

Fortune’s Invite only conference Brainstorm adds Neil Young plus Viacom and Verizon CEOs

July 18, 2008 –

Fortune is hosting its Brainstorm conference. It is invite only and has a stellar lineup of speakers: Read More »

By ecto | Posted in media | Comments (0)

Lawsuit claims GOOG is defrauding advertising customers

July 17, 2008 –

Google [GOOG] claims that its online advertising is effective because it is highly targeted. But a new lawsuit claims Google profits from web sites that carry no related content - just ads, and that advertising customers are losing money from this practice. Read More »

By ecto | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Mozilla Gets World Record

July 2, 2008 –

Mozilla has made it to the Guiness Book of World Records for an astounding 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3. Read More »

By editor | Posted in Mozilla | Comments (0)

Reddit Goes Open Source

June 18, 2008 –

Reddit said it is opening up its source code to its large community of developers. Here is the announcement from the reddit blog:

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By ecto | Posted in media | Comments (0)

Spam: MySpace Wins $6m Against Spammer

June 16, 2008 –

The American Arbitrage Association awarded MySpace $6m in damages and attorney fees and a permanent injunction against spammers: Scott Richter and Media Breakaway. MySpace said it would aggresively pursue spammers and “keep those who try to harm our members off our site.” Read More »

By editor | Posted in Spam, lawsuit | Comments (0)

Social Services: Qlubb Says Growing Fast, Chosen By Supernova

June 16, 2008 –

Qlubb is a new service that allows groups of people to collect and organize. Useful for classrooms, soccer teams, family reunions etc. Read More »

By editor | Posted in qlubb, social | Comments (0)

iPhone: Semantic Search Firm Powerset Intros Wikipedia Search

June 16, 2008 –

Powerset, the San Francisco based search technology company, has introduced an iPhone application that searches Wikipedia. Read More »

By editor | Posted in Powerset, iphone, search | Comments (0)

Event: Chip exec to conduct San Jose Mozart concert Aug 2

May 24, 2008 –

Former Intel exec will conduct Prague” symphony and play piano with his wife Yong Jean Park. Read More »

By editor | Posted in Event, culture | Comments (0)

Legacy telco services still strong in many sectors says InStat

May 22, 2008 –

Some vertical sectors see benefit from next generation networks (NGN) services says InStat report. Read More »

By editor | Posted in network, telco | Comments (0)

Largest news network allies with wireless image leader

May 22, 2008 –

NowPublic.com teams up with Shozu to enable reporters to quickly upload images. Read More »

By editor | Posted in wireless | Comments (0)

Event: X-Change conference features 3 top web analytics experts

May 22, 2008 –

Coming up in San Francisco Aug 18 - 19.  Read More »

By editor | Posted in Event, web analytics | Comments (0)