============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Dec. 17, 2010 ============================================ Sponsored By: Airfoil Public Relations – Create a PR Flight Plan www.flywithairfoil.com o Reports: Yahoo to Offload or Shutter Delicious, Upcoming o Commerce Dept. Report Calls for Online Privacy "Bill of Rights" o Google Debuts Searchable Book Database of 500 Billion Words o NPD: Despite Steep Discounting, Amazon Trails iTunes on Music o Former Editor at CNET and Wired.com Launches Evolver.fm o PwC: U.S. IPO Market Makes Gains in 2010, Though Tech Still Weak o Briefly Noted: BitTorrent, Zynga - Dr. Dre _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Investment Banking Analyst - Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. --Missing Your Connection with the Marketplace? --Director, Business Development, Bb Connect - San Francisco, California --Mobility Application Manager --Director Mobile Marketing/Advertising Sales --Venture Investment Manager --Account Executive --Smart Energy News - Subscribe Now! --Advertise on Bay Area Tech Wire and Reach More than 6,000 Subscribers Ad Descriptions Below Briefly Noted Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o Reports: Yahoo to Offload or Shutter Delicious, Upcoming Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Following a round of over 600 layoffs this week, Sunnyvale-based Yahoo reportedly is considering shuttering several of its online products, including social bookmarking service Delicious, blogger social network MyBlogLog and social calendar Upcoming. The New York Times and others cited a leaked slideshow snapshot from a Yahoo presentation, linked on Twitter by MyBlogLog co-founder Eric Marcoullier. Yahoo may also be looking to merge or shift focus away from its news aggregator, Yahoo Buzz, and search tool AltaVista. "Part of our organizational streamlining involves cutting our investment in underperforming or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond," Yahoo spokeswoman Dana Lengkeek told The Times. "We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months such as Yahoo Buzz, our Traffic APIs, and others. We will communicate specific plans when appropriate." Despite the reports, a post on the Delicious blog denies that the service will be shut down. "While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive," the post reads. http://twitter.com/bpm140/status/15473591558602752  http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html  http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/yahoo-may-shut-down-some-services/  _____________________________________________ o Commerce Dept. Report Calls for Online Privacy "Bill of Rights" Washington, DC -- A new report from the Commerce Department recommends the U.S. create a "privacy bill of rights," which would, among other things, govern how Internet companies can collect data on consumers to target ads. "America needs a robust privacy framework that preserves consumer trust in the evolving Internet economy while ensuring the web remains a platform for innovation, jobs and economic growth," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in a statement. Under voluntary guidelines, companies would have to disclose what data they are tracking on consumers, and exactly how it is being used. They also would need to let consumers opt-out of being tracked, as well as correct errors in the profiles created for them. The report comes after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommended the creation of a "Do Not Track" tool that would let users block tracking of their web surfing for the purposes of targeting advertising. http://www.commerce.gov/node/12471  _____________________________________________ o Google Debuts Searchable Book Database of 500 Billion Words Mountain View, Calif. -- Google has introduced a new searchable database of 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and 2008, intended for use by researchers of language, history and other disciplines, as well as the general public. The database was created from Google's index of some 5.2 million titles digitized as part of its Google Books project, and includes texts in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian. "The goal is to give an 8-year-old the ability to browse cultural trends throughout history, as recorded in books," Erez Lieberman Aiden, a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard, told The New York Times. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/find-out-whats-in-word-or-five-with.html  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html  _____________________________________________ o NPD: Despite Steep Discounting, Amazon Trails iTunes on Music Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple has continued to strengthen its grasp on the digital music retail market in 2010, and now holds 66.2% market share, up from 63.2% in the third quarter of 2009, according to market research firm NPD Group. Meanwhile, Amazon.com -- Cupertino-based Apple's closest competitor in the space -- increased its market share from 11% to 13.3% during the same period. Amazon has sought to attract consumers with steep discounts on certain albums, offering "daily deals" where MP3 albums are discounted to $3.99. http://www.npd.com  _____________________________________________ o Former Editor at CNET and Wired.com Launches Evolver.fm Somerville, Mass. -- Eliot Van Buskirk, a former writer and editor at San Francisco-based CNET and Wired.com, on Friday announced the launch of Evolver.fm, a Massachusetts-based publication covering music apps. Having just completed its initial beta testing, Evolver.fm is targeting music listeners who use smartphones, computers or television set-top boxes. Evolver.fm is published by The Echo Nest, whose investors include Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Argos Management and three co-founders of MIT Media Lab. In addition, the company has won four National Science Foundation grants. http://www.echonest.com  http://blog.echonest.com/post/2348317973/official-launch-of-evolver-fm  _____________________________________________ o PwC: U.S. IPO Market Makes Gains in 2010, Though Tech Still Weak New York -- Despite continued weakness in the technology sector, the overall U.S. IPO market has made a dramatic comeback in 2010, according to new figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). With two weeks left in the year, U.S. companies have completed 154 initial public offerings (IPOs), raising $37.5 billion. The figures represent a 123% increase in deal volume and 49% increase in value, compared with a year ago. The turnaround has been somewhat less pronounced in the tech sector, where six IPOs raised $727.1 million in the fourth quarter, about double the amounts from a year ago, but still well behind the strongest IPO markets of past years. http://www.pwc.com  http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pwc-us-ipo-watch-us-ipo-market-volume-jumps-over-100-in-2010-according-to-pwc-111941169.html  _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Missing Your Connection with the Marketplace? Are you working hard to build a first-class business but finding that prospects keep positioning you in coach--with the rest of the crowd? Are your new offerings not taking off as you had anticipated? You may need a better communications flight plan. Visit www.flywithairfoil.com and find solutions to the challenges that are grounding your business. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based BitTorrent, a developer of file sharing technology, on Friday named James Lee as a senior advisor. Lee has served as an angel investor and advisor to many tech startups, and was founding director of the Internet Technology Division of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan. http://www.bittorrent.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101217005053/en/BitTorrent-Names-Dr.-James-Lee-Advisory-Board  (San Francisco) San Francisco-based social games publisher Zynga on Friday announced its first in-game music promotion, which will give players of its "Mafia Wars" access to a new music video from Dr. Dre, in addition to limited edition, branded virtual goods. The video for "Kush" and virtual goods -- such as headphones, weapons and a vintage car -- will be offered in a "Hustlin' wit Dre" portion of the game. http://www.zynga.com  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101217005761/en/Zynga-Launches-Music-Partnership-Dr.-Dre =================================================== Job/Event/Marketplace Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 6000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > Investment Banking Analyst - Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. Investment Banking Analysts play an integral role on investment banking teams, providing analytical support on public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and other financial advisory services for our clients in one of two broadly defined industry verticals: manufactured products or business and technology services. Candidates must be eager and able to learn in a fast-paced, challenging environment. 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ArX Mobile seeks a killer Sales Director with 15+ years of experience selling to digital advertising agencies, international consumer brands, media companies and national retail chains. Candidates must be experienced with: Text messaging based mobile marketing technology and campaigns. Internet and mobile advertising concepts and trends. Mobile alerts/polling/sweepstakes/coupons/in venue. Rolodex and experience selling to digital ad agencies, international consumer brands, media companies and national retail chains. Coin operated history of consistently exceeding annual quota. Experience using Salesforce.com. The ideal candidate should possess: Cold calling ability. Outstanding cross-selling skills. A strong numbers driven work ethic. Capability to build long term customer relationships. Exceptional communications skills including use of PowerPoint. Experience in text messaging/mobile marketing/mobile advertising a must. Reports to the SVP Sales & Services. Bachelors degree required. 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