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.

Blerp creates layers on web sites

RocketOn has launched Blerp, a service that allows anyone to post videos or comments on top of existing sites. It could be controversial because it doesn’t require permission from the site owner…

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April CEO departures lowest since December 2004

The number of CEOs leaving companies has slowed dramatically says outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas…

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AMD pleased with EU ruling on Intel

Advanced Micro Devices, (AMD) welcomed the European Commission ruling on Intel violating European anti-trust laws…

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TechAmerica Summit reminds Californian lawmakers of strong tech industry

TechAmerica Summit aims to bring attention to high tech industry during first ever California High Technology Week…

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BrightSource and PG&E in record solar deal

Largest deal so far for BrightSource, it is the equivalent of electric power for more than half-a-million homes…

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Apple sentiment strong as Nokia and Palm post gains

Piqqem Sentiment report for April shows gains by Nokia and Palm, and continued strong results for Apple…

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One in five telecommuters would give up 5% of salary reports survey

Citrix online has published a “Web commuting” survey. One of the findings was that 20% would give up 5% of their salary to telecommute at least one day a week…

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Google adds “Tasks” to Calendar and dates to “Tasks”

The “Task” list from Gmail can now be accessed from Google Calendar, and due dates can be assigned to tasks, which will be useful…

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GizaPage launches a social network organizer

GizaPage is a free tool for people that are active on many social sites…

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Sorenson intros high quality video delivery network

Video specialist Sorenson 360 introduced a video delivery network to cut costs of publishing high quality videos…

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ShortTail offers video ad platform

ShortTail Media has introduced a video platform that enables existing video ads to be shown on major web sites…

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Live webcast of Google’s Searchology event

Google is offering a live webcast of its press briefing on its search strategy and plans…

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InsideView combines Twitter with CRM applications

InsideView offers an intersection between business and the social web by allowing CRM applications to integrate Twitter content…

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SubZero street festival in San Jose June 5

First Fridays is a monthly street festival in San Jose from the organizers of the excellent ZERO1 festival….

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Anita Borg Institute honors 3 women in technology

The ANita Borg Institute honors Mitchell Baker, Jan Cuny and Yuqing Gao for their accomplishments in innovation, leadership and social impact…

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Digital deregulation is a failure says group Free Press

Broadband policy in the US is a mess says new report from Free Press…

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Join Launch Silicon Valley in Uncovering 2009’s Best Startups

This year’s Launch: Silicon Valley, co-presented by SVASE, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft, presents up to 30 companies with a diverse audience and offers a chance to present their new products and services.

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Adopt a Line of Miro Code!

Miro looks to take on open-source coding in an open arena.  Collaborative based source codes may be one way to address budget cutbacks.

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Major milestone: The world’s oldest existing browser- Opera - turns 15 today

Opera’s cross-platform Web browser technology is is gaining popularity around the world and today marks its 15th year anniversary with a user base of over 40 million people on Mac, Windows and Linux.

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New Product Advisory: rBuilder now a Free Public Download

IT professionals looking to save time and money may want to consider rPath’s free rBuilder application.  It is a self contained application focused on delivery to bare metal, hypervisor or cloud environments.

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