A collection of artifacts I've found on the Web, about the Web, and a few other things.
The investment by Intel Capital in Joyent was announced today at the investment organization’s 10th Annual CEO Summit, where seven investments were made public (for approximately $25 million in total). The other six capital infusions went to Korea-based Crucialtec, Taiwan-based Gudeng Precision Industrial Co, Japan-based V-cube, China-based Phoenix New Media, United Arab Emirates-based NeuString and US-based Active Storage. (via Intel Capital Invests In Cloud Computing Pioneer Joyent)
AOL depends on display advertising, which has not yet rebounded like search advertising appears to be doing. (via Cleaning House Before Its IPO Will Cost AOL $200 Million And Up To 1,000 Jobs)
Four graphs created by the International Federation of Health Plans that compare how much US residents and people in other countries pay for health care. As Jay Livingston of the Montclair SocioBlog says, “Our Lipitor must be four to ten times a good as the Lipitor that Canadians take.” (via Charts showing how much US residents pay for health care compared to people in other countries - Boing Boing)
Google has set up a website to explain the benefits of the AdMob acquisition, detailing the rapidly growing (and still very nascent) mobile advertising space (via Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million)
Deutsche Bank said it expects to see about 2 million iPhones in the enterprise market for 2009, taking roughly 7 percent of the corporate smart phone market. The analyst firm says that’s up from 2 percent of the market in 2008 for Apple. What’s driving the increase, in part, is the belief that it is not true that physical keyboards are a necessity in corporate use. (via iPhone Enterprise Outlook Rocks RIM)
Many Scientists Say Temperature Drop From Recent Record Highs Is a Blip, While a Few See a Trend; Inexact Climate Models (via Fight Over Global Warming Heats Up - WSJ.com)
But what if a computer were nothing more than an Internet browser — a digital window pane onto the Web? You could forget about all the software that now powers your computer and everything it does. All of those functions would be done through the Web. And none of the information that’s now inside your computer would be there anymore. Instead, it would all be on the cloud of connected computers that is the Internet. (via Ideas and Trends - Google’s Chrome OS - Reaching for the Cloud - NYTimes.com)
A lot has happened in the past year: The economy took a huge hit, venture funding dried up, and online advertising plummeted. E-commerce and virtual goods sales, meanwhile, held up relatively well. (via The SAI 50+: World’s Most Valuable Internet Startups)
Sell access and experiences, not media files. (via For The Future Of The Media Industry, Look In The App Store)
President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system. The end result will promote energy-saving choices for consumers, increase efficiency, and foster the growth of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. (via U.S. Department of Energy)
And Google is happy to give its navigation app away for free because it leverages many existing technologies it has already built for the Web, and it encourages more people to use Web-capable phones and do local searches on them. Its strategy is to give the software away for free, and make money on the search ads. (via Google’s New Mobile App Cuts GPS Nav Companies At The Knees)
