Monthly Archives: January 2006

Spotwave Raises $10M

By Mark Evans | Published: January 30, 2006
A VC deal ( non-Web 2.0) I should have mentioned earlier was Ottawa-based Spotwave Wireless raising $10-million from a group of investors that includes Motorola Ventures. Spotwave makes hardwave and software that improves the strength of wireless signals inside offices and homes. As wireless devices become de rigeur for most people, bad reception anywhere is [...]
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Media Bubble: Intriguing and Troubling

By Mark Evans | Published: January 30, 2006
In the wake the Web 2.0/VC dialogue over the weekend, there are a couple posts (Scott Karp, Jack Shafer exploring how blogs are maybe attacking the foundations of the newspaper industry because of bloggers ability to establish themselves and reach out to millions of potential readers at little cost. Karp focuses on how the proliferation [...]
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A New VC Model?

By Mark Evans | Published: January 29, 2006
Web 2.0 may not be a bubble yet but there are intriguing, if not troubling, signs that the inmates want to take over the prison. Dave Winer's call to remove VCs from the formula has some merit but it assumes investors in a publicly-traded venture company will have faith that the people running it are [...]
Posted in Main Page, Venture Capital, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments

Boom vs. Bubble

By Mark Evans | Published: January 28, 2006
Chris Anderson has a thought-provoking story in Wired arguing the technology sector's revival is a boom, not a bubble - citing the industry's maturity, the lower cost of bandwidth and and computing, and lower capital requirements. It's a reasonable argument but I would suggest no one in Silicon Valley should pat themselves on the back too heartily for being so [...]
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An Microsoft xPod?

By Mark Evans | Published: January 27, 2006
So Microsoft's thinking of developing an iPod-killer? So says BusinessWeek, which reports that Microsoft hasn't decided whether to go ahead with the “xPod” project yet. My advice is simple: don't do it,  Bill, because it's already too late unless you want to be a marginal play. I mean, the iPod is so well-entrenched, Creative Technology [...]
Posted in Apple/iPod, Main Page, Microsoft, Music | 4 Comments

Analysts Loving Nortel's Mike Z.

By Mark Evans | Published: January 27, 2006
I've got an investment story in today's National Post about how a growing number of analysts are jumping on the Nortel bandwagon. A big chunk of the enthusiasm has to do with the expectations newly-minted CEO Mike Zafirovski and his plan to revive the embattled company by giving it a sharper strategic vision – as [...]
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