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Aneesh Chopra gets schooled by the CEA

» by russ January 9th, 2010 at 1:08 am » View Comments

So apparently Aneesha Chopra took some time away from wasting American taxpayers money on overpriced government technology to visit the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Nothing like a government funded trip to Vegas eh? Any way while he was there getting his butt kissed by the left wing techies and those [...]



Founder visas for startups

» by russ September 12th, 2009 at 5:26 pm » View Comments

I was reading an interesting post on Techdirt about the idea of a founders visa. A founders visa would allow immigrants to come over and create start-ups. In turn these same immigrants would create new jobs for Americans. However I’m not positive this would solve the problem new business creation in the US. [...]



Google starts layoff and is ending services

» by russ January 15th, 2009 at 8:22 am » View Comments

According to Tech Crunch Google has started lay offs and is getting rid of a number of services including micro blog Jaiku. A full list of services being eliminated is available over at SearchEngineLand.com.
On Twitter Jason Calacanis has stated he believes that this marks the bottom of the downturn. He also [...]



Monster Cable finally gets a clue

» by russ January 8th, 2009 at 12:01 am » View Comments

I was reading today on the Consumerist blog that Monster Cable has dropped it’s lawsuit against Monster Mini Golf. The ridiculous thing here is no one said stop what are we doing until months later and half a million blog posts on the issue. Not good for your image.



Jason Calacanis’ comments on the Tesla Load/Bailout

» by russ November 30th, 2008 at 10:56 pm » View Comments

So I was reading a rebuttal article written by Jason Calacanis about the Tesla Loan/Bailout. The article Calacanis was writing about was written by Randall Stross of the New York Times. In his rebuttal, Calacanis takes on the class warfare that Stross uses to defend not giving the loan to Tesla. The [...]



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