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Half of all Black Friday shoppers bought electronic gadgets

Dean Takahashi — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:58:18 +0000

About half of all goods purchased over the Black Friday weekend were electronic gadgets, according to a survey by the Consumer Electronics Association and polling firm Caravan.

The survey estimate that 118 million Americans will shop Thursday through Monday and …

For venture investing, will 2012 look more like 2008 than 2011? (poll)

Dean Takahashi — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:18:34 +0000

Will 2012 be a continuation of the good, bubble-like times for the venture capital industry and startups that are raising money? Or will we see a dramatic, economic-doldrums-induced slowdown like we did at the end of 2008?

Erick Schonfeld of …

Black Friday e-commerce sales were up 26 percent from last year

Dean Takahashi — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:46:52 +0000

Black Friday electronic commerce sales were $816 million, up 26 percent from a year ago, according to comScore.

The number underscores the relentless march of digital commerce as users prefer to surf the malls of cyberspace rather than brave crowds …

Charlie Walton, inventor of RFID, passes away at 89

Dean Takahashi — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:41:01 +0000

Charlie Walton, the inventor of an ubiquitous wireless technology known as RFID, has passed away at 89.

Walton, who lived in Los Gatos, died on Nov. 6, according to his wife Ann Walton. I once wrote an article about Walton …

Mike Cassidy: How to build a $500M company in 500 days

Matt Marshall — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:30:16 +0000

No one embodies the classic, sniff-it-out serial entrepreneur more than Mike Cassidy, who has now built and sold four companies (Stylus Innovation, Direct Hit, Xfire and Ruba), some of them with very impressive exits.

Last week, Cassidy traveled to Turkey …

20 Turkish startups — hot and heavy on e-commerce, but light on marketing

Matt Marshall — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:03:13 +0000

Here are the startups that presented at the big Turkey start-up-investor event 4ki Istanbul last week.

I saw some great technology, but one consistent weakness was on the marketing side. Many Turkish entrepreneurs are so focused on building their product (a good …

Why Turkey is the next raging e-commerce hotspot

Matt Marshall — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:29:07 +0000

Last week, I visited Turkey, and discovered what a lot of people are saying about this fascinating country: It’s the next developing hotspot for technology startups, especially for e-commerce.

The sector is exploding: The Turkish e-commerce market hit $10.6 billion …

Week in review: Sex and video games

Dylan Tweney — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:53:53 +0000

Every week we highlight some of our favorite recent stories, as well as revisiting the most popular VentureBeat stories of the week.

But first: This is the first big holiday shopping weekend of the year. Kick it off with our …

Google Chrome upgrades: Gamepad & WebRTC support coming in 2012

Nick Akerman — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Google is set to add plug-and-play gamepad support to its Chrome web browser early next year, Develop reports. Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan also announced the search behemoth will be adding open source video and voice chat application WebRTC to …

Authorities seize 131 domains associated with piracy and counterfeiting

Tom Cheredar — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:48:25 +0000

The US government has seized 131 domains allegedly associated with counterfeiting- and piracy-related websites, reports TorrentFreak.

The action signals that U.S. authorities have resumed “Operation In Our Sites”, a joint initiative between the Department of Justice and Immigration and Customs …