Archive for June 21st, 2009

50 Promising Startups

50 Promising Startups

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

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BusinessWeek has an interesting piece on the top 50 technology startups that you may not have heard of. I confess that it is my job to keep up on areas like this I was only familiar with around 20 of them or 40%. There are several that I think are particularly interesting.

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MTV fights to retain viewers from Facebook & Twitter

MTV fights to retain viewers from Facebook & Twitter

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

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It seems to me that MTV abandoned the music video format a long time ago and embraced ‘reality’ TV. Portfolio has an interesting piece about the success of The Hills and how MTV is going to double-down with more meta-reality.
It’s a risky strategy. With these shows, MTV is betting on a particularly elusive sliver of [...]

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