Posts tagged Evangelist
Professor says Square took his technology, Facebook readies Game Dashboard
Dec 19th
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Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Professor claims Square took his credit card reading technology — Square is a promising startup offering a small device that lets anyone make a credit card payment from their mobile phone. But [...]
Former Microsoft evangelist Don Dodge on Google vs. Microsoft (Q&A)
Dec 18th
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At Microsoft, Don Dodge was known as the software giant’s ambassador to an at-times skeptical startup community. When he was laid off in November, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington declared, “This is a huge mistake,” but Dodge quickly moved over to Google, where he’s taking on a similar role. (TechFlash has even nominated Dodge for best [...]
Crunchpad killed, Googlephone sighted, Kindles counted (via postie)
Dec 1st
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Here’s the latest action:
The Googlephone, on the 0ther hand, seems likely to ship — Gizmodo has no spy photos, but they claim a reliable insider has seen a Google-branded smartphone that the company seriously plans t0 sell in the near future. Google has been repeatedly tagged as one of the world’s best-known, most [...]
Week in review: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on apps, Al Gore at GreenBeat
Nov 21st
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: Apps don’t make your phone special — “It’s not the applications available on the various platforms that will be the differentiators, Ozzie said, even though that’s what many companies and writers [...]
Former Microsoft evangelist Don Dodge joins Google, discovers Gmail
Nov 17th
Don Dodge, the Microsoft startup evangelist whose layoff earlier this month was much-bemoaned in the tech community, has landed on his feet, and then some. He has accepted a new job at Google, where it sounds like he’ll be occupying a role similar to his job at Microsoft — convincing startups and other developers to [...]
