StartUpToFinish

I know this is old, but I still find it humorous here it is.

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Internet refrigerators were a joke a few years ago, but RFID startup Blue Vector Systems says that it’s finding real customers for them. The concept is similar to the vision of household appliances that automatically reorder groceries, only aimed at enterprise supply chains instead of home kitchens.

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NOVATO — E-mail, Web sites and automated phone messaging aside, nothing beats the power of a live human voice when it comes to sales and service.

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Heather Chan, 24, was at a barbecue recently when the mother of a friend brought out a slab of green Jell-O filled with chunks of vegetables. It was a moment that begged to be broadcast. “I thought, ‘Gross – I have to share this with everyone else,’ ” said…

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Layered Technologies, a leading provider of reliable, affordable, and scalable on-demand, self-managed utility hosting services, recently announced a collaboration with Sun Microsystems. Layered Technologies will now offer Sun Startup Essentials members the ability to rapidly deploy on-demand hosting and utility computing solutions supported by Layered Technologies on Sun’s platform of products …

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Prince freed himself from record labels years ago. Paul McCartney, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have followed. Now the Material Girl appears to be kissing her big-name record company goodbye for a cool $120 million.

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Seattle developers trying startups-on-speed approach. SEATTLE — Brian Dorsey set out on a mission this month: develop and launch an Internet service in less than six hours.

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The Media and Entertainment Product Line Director for Akamai Technologies, Tim Napoleon, will be giving the opening keynote at iTVCon – Internet Video Conference & Expo next month in San Francisco. Prior to joining Akamai, Napoleon worked closely with Adobe to launch the Flash Video Streaming service at a content delivery startup, so he is [...]

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“We’ll make big changes over the next couple of years and keep iterating and innovating .” – John Donahoe , president, eBay Marketplaces

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Yahoo cited a study that found only 15 percent of searchers find what they want with the first search they perform.

The situation forms part of what motivated Yahoo’s search team to launch Search Assist, a new feature for Yahoo Search, earlier this month.
Larry Cornett and Tom Chi said at the Yahoo Search blog they wanted [...]

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