Why SAP’s VC arm is dabbling in online advertising
Why would SAP’s venture capital arm be leading the latest financing round for a fast-growing online advertising platform that has now raised more than $50m?
Because it believes that display advertising is one of the first places in the business world where real-time data is about to turn a market upside down – and it won’t be the last.
Intel’s vision of a new category of ‘Ultrabooks’ that would revolutionise the consumer PC industry has won over at least one important convert.
Speaking at a separate press conference just minutes after Intel’s keynote speech, Ray Chen, president of Taiwan’s Compal, the world’s second-biggest contract PC maker, praised the idea of Ultrabooks and said it would “ignite the next wave of laptop replacements” next year when those new models come onto the market.
The latest news from around the Web:
Twitter is on the verge of announcing its own built-in rival to Twitpic and Yfrog, Techcrunch reports. The announcement, which could come as soon as today, is seen as a logical step in Twitter’s expansion of its range of apps.
Critics like to say that PC makers were slow to recognise the threat from tablets and to respond with their own versions to rival Apple’s iPad.
This narrative may be the popular one, but it underestimates the challenges faced by traditional PC makers in coming up with a competitive and profitable tablet, Henry Lu, senior vice president of Micro-Star International, told the Financial Times.
Secret G8 memo reveals outbreak of internet harmony
A private memo from within the G8 meeting on Thursday between internet chiefs and world leaders indicates strong levels of support from Barack Obama, David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy and co for the principles of internet freedom put forward by Facebook, Google and their peers.
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