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 an external source. Content in green shows a money relationship with SV Newswire. All other content is from SV Newswire editors.

comScore: YouTube surge adds to record number of online videos watched

Isn’t every month is a record for video watching online? …

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Using power lines to distribute HD video

This is an interesting in-home technology that could be very useful such as moving video content from PC screen to TV screen…

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Sourceforge acquires Ohloh

Acquiring open source geeks…

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Imagini launches visual store widget

Here’s a unique approach to online commerce. Choose some images and the products choose you . . .

Use this invite code: Siliconvalleywatchervisualdnashop and visit here: http://shops.visualdna.com

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Fund raising event for teaching media skills to refugees

Teaching media skills is very important to every community…

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VoloMedia signs up Young Hollywood for ads

Another ad network…

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Gmail will automatically translate

One-click translation from Google Labs…

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What are you looking at? Photobucket’s photo sharing site for Twitter

New from Photobucket: Twitgoo…

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San Francisco’s Treasure Island chosen for Clinton climate positive development

Can urban projects become “climate positive?” Treasure Island site will find out…

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Tweeting local picks in San Francisco and New York

Donald McMillan VP of Social Media at Schmap introduces a local Twitter app…

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Tuesday Newswatch

Silicon Valley related news links…

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Help to fund book on the voting machine controversy

Alice Marshall needs to raise $30,000 for her book…

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Search grows 4.4 per cent year over year says Nielsen

The number of searches grew 4.4 per cent in April from the year ago period…

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Chip industry news round up …Intel gets battered by EU, Q1 Chip rankings in flux, GLOBALFOUNDRIES pinches TSMC exec & Solar getting cloudy…

The week’s news in the chip industry from Matt Grimshaw…

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MasterCard chooses Cryptography Research

If you want to use smart cards and other devices on Mastercard’s network you’ll have to be licensed by Cryptography Research first…

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Free e-book: JD Lasica’s Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing

New from the Aspen Insitute, JD Lasica’s “Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction.”…

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Largest California solar project will triple SF solar energy

Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, likes the new 5 MW solar project at the Sunset reservoir…

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EU anti-trust ruling against Intel threatens Innovation says think tank

Intel has some friends over at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. They blasted the European finding and the $1.4bn fine…

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Thursday is “Bike to work” day - four bike-friendly workplaces named

Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition grants first ever bicycle-friendly workplace” certification to four Silicon Valley businesses…

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Travel site Voji launched by veterans of Sidestep

The founders of Sidestep, which sold to Kayak for $200m, have launched a new travel site, Voji that aggregates the best travel deals…

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