As Black Friday marched into Small Business Saturday, shoppers continued to brave huge crowds and long lines to score good deals on holiday shopping. And as reports file in from big box retailers it appears that larger—and younger—crowds turned out for one of the biggest sales days of the year. READ MORE
You want to know what your customers and prospective customers are thinking. You and every other company out there. So you send out a survey asking them their preferences. You and every other company out there. How can you make sure as many users as possible will actually take the time to fill out your survey? And that if they do, it will actually tell you what you need to know? Here, from TheNextWeb, is a guide to creating effective surveys that users might actually complete. READ MORE
Just when you thought that you had a handle on Facebook and Twitter for your company, Google+ enters the scene. Google officially began allowing companies to start their own Google+ accounts Monday. READ MORE
Rumors that Yahoo might be planning to reject bids on the company sent shares into a tailspin, leading to the company’s worst day of trading in two months. The market was responding to speculation that the company may sell the portion of its business in Asia and pass the proceeds on to stockholders. READ MORE
E-book publishers continued to debate who they are and why at the Books in Browsers conference in San Francisco, which was hosted by the Internet Archive and O’Reilly Media. All present seemed to agree that books are dying, that a technology that has proven resilient for hundreds of years will perish, and that electronic books, which have yet to gain a recognizable form, will prevail. READ MORE
China made a surprise move earlier this week in the race to build the supercomputer of the future. At a meeting in Jinan, China, industry and government officials announced the Sunway BlueLight MPP, a supercomputer that can perform up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second, and which is composed entirely of 8,700 Chinese ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors. READ MORE
RIM has made good on its promise to start offering cloud computing offerings to businesses with the debut of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365. The new service enables customers to access Microsoft Entourage online email and its data from a BlackBerry. READ MORE
2011 saw a surge of web start-ups. Now start-ups are finding capital hard to come by, according to a Wall Street Journal report that has the venture capital and start-up world abuzz. The trend seems to be affecting only early stage ventures. There’s simply not enough investment out there to fund them all. The National Venture Capital Association released a report Monday that confirms this, concluding that venture-fund raising in the third quarter fell to its lowest quarterly level since 2003. READ MORE
Move over, housewives, Bravo is headed to Silicon Valley. The cable network announced the yet-to-be-titled show today while sending out a casting call. Here’s what Bravo’s looking for: READ MORE
Just two weeks ago, Groupon filed new IPO paperwork with the SEC after regulators raised questions about an accounting metric. Now Groupon has refiled again. READ MORE
