Testing Google TV

How does a small Bay Area start-up whose business revolves around arcane coding compete for developers with the likes of Facebook and Google? By making a rap video, of course.

In this morning's Web roundup, Facebook is getting ready to launch an email service to challenge Gmail, TechCrunch says. Up the peninsula in San Francisco, entrepreneurs are looking to get close to Twitter, making nearby office space especially attractive. And the tech world puzzles over the implications of Cisco's forecast.

Investors often talk about the importance of a founder having previous start-up experience. Dalton Caldwell's last start-up certainly was an experience.

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Demand for LCD televisions in the U.S. continues to disappoint. In October, overall U.S. retail electronics revenue fell 5.8% from a year ago, according to the research firm NPD Group, with sales of 2D LCD televisions down 24.7% in dollars, and 2D plasma TVs down 22%. Even including 3D models, LCD [...]

Well, I suppose anything is possible. According to Business Insider, a more likely merger partner for Yahoo (YHOO) than AOL (AOL) is - are you ready for this? - News Corp. (NWSA). The incredibly thinly sourced post notes that Yahoo just hired former News Corp. Ross Levinsohn to run corporate development; his [...]

Smart Modular Technologies (SMOD) shares this morning have extended their recent slide; the memory module vendor's stock is now down 18% over the last six sessions. In addition to the potential investor confusion over the sell-off earlier this week in similar sounding but unrelated SMART Technologies (SMT), SMOD appears to be [...]

Charter Equity analyst Edward Snyder this morning raised his rating on Research In Motion (RIMM) to Buy from Underperform, asserting that the recent rally in the stock has further to run. “Although RIMM shares have moved sharply higher in recent days, we believe the stock will continue appreciating as fears of [...]

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