Online speed dating? Indeed. And WooMe, a San Francisco start-up, is hoping it’s big business. The company launched at the TechCrunch40 conference this week, along with Orgoo, a service that lets users merge all their email and IM accounts into one dashboard. In this video, WooMe’s Stephen ...

The San Jose Mercury News spent a day at the TechCrunch40 conference talking to companies and getting demos of new products. This interview, with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin, is one of several videos we’re publishing from the conference. Tech-watchers will remember two years ago when Flock was being ...

Nick DeMonner, Lisa Hansen and Mike Minardi are trying to launch a start-up into a tough market with just modest funding. Which means they’re cutting costs at every turn. But they’ve found that a low-budget lifestyle doesn’t mean eating ramen every day. The San Jose trio have discovered how ...

I had a chance to sit down and talk with Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins about Seagate’s Q3 results. The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that Seagate has revised it’s estimates but Seagate continues to be the big fish in the disk drive waters.

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Every day at CES last week we met with the Retrevo Gang - folks from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, who held court and talked about the latest news - Apple iPhone and other gadgets. On the second day, San Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dean Takahashi dropped by ...

PodTech’s own Robert Scoble is featured today in the San Jose Mercury News also known as the Merc here in Silicon Valley. What’s compelling about the story is the openness of the net and how opportunities are created via transparency. Nice article by Michelle Quinn

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Next week there is a cutting edge conference at Stanford that is free for journalism and innovation professionals to attend. Registration: http://scil.stanford.edu/InJo-2006/signup.fft. Vint Cerf, PodTech, Google, CNet, Tony Perkins, Ross Mayfield, Dan Gillmor, USVP’s Paul Mateucci, and other great folks like Harry McCracken, Michael Kanellos.

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