RockYou, a social widget maker located in San Mateo received $35 million as part of its Series C funding. DCM led the funding for this latest round and previous investors of RockYou include Sequoia and LightSpeed.
RockyYou’s array of social widget offerings include SuperWall, Horoscope, SlideShow and many more. Their widgets can be found on Facebook, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘TiECon 2008’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Interviews, Social Media, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
A couple of weeks ago I had my first article published in Times of India and Economic Times. I did not know this, but recently discovered that Times of India is the largest circulated English newspaper in the world. Earlier today the parent company of the newspapers announced they had bought UK’s Virgin Radio [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital
In this week’s column in Financial Express the topic is about cleantech and the connection between Silicon Valley and India. Last week during the TiECon in Silicon Valley cleantech was a major topic of discussion and I met a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur who are doing some very interesting things in this space. Ravi [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Planes and Automobiles, Start-ups, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
All I heard on the first day of TiECon was about Elon Musk and his Tesla roadster.
Musk was the keynote speaker on the second day and the highlight was that he was going to drive his Tesla (he owns the first Tesla that rolled out of their production line) into the auditorium just before his [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, Ideas, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Planes and Automobiles, San Francisco, Social Media, Technology
This year’s TiECon was a bit low-keyed and somber and was in ways a reflection of the economic situation in the USA. There were about 2,500 that attended the conference. However on the second day it seemed like there were fewer people, when compared to the first day.
The two opening keynote speakers on both days [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Technology, Venture Capital
TiECon 2008 starts in a few minutes and the first keynote speaker is Peter Thiel, founder and president of Clarium Capital Management. Prior to this Thiel was c0-founder of PayPal that was acquired by eBay. Thiel was an early investor in Facebook, the red hot social networking company.