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Silicon.com has this article that quotes Equifax warning about how social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, etc. can cause identity theft
Neil Munroe, external affairs director for Equifax, said in a statement: “The problem is that people don’t realise the significance of the kind of information they are putting out on the web and who may [...]

The blogosphere is full of speculations on whether some big company will acquire Facebook or not. Some people are arguing that Facebook will stay independent and move towards an IPO. Whatever be the case, one thing is becoming clear. The chances of Facebook going towards Microsoft is quite unlikely after the recent acquisition of Parakey. [...]

This is a third article in the series Startup 101. In the first post, we understood the importance of not starting alone. In the second post, we discussed about the issues related to selecting a business partner. In this post, we are going to talk about the importance of story telling for the leader of [...]

Recently, Bryan Richard and Tim O’Reilly proclaimed that GPL has no future in this networked world where software is to be delivered as a service. You can also read Tim’s previous post on the topic here. I am not comfortable with their postions. The software as a service is at very early stages and it [...]

Apatar, Inc. has been selected by Red Herring Magazine to present and officially launch the company today at the Red Herring East Conference, in Boston, MA. Ten CEOs are invited onstage to present their companies and business plans to an audience of 400 technology executives, CEOs, venture capitalists, and business leaders. Apatar’s founder and CEO [...]

37Signals, whose products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire, has opened up two of their products to use OpenID based authentication. Now you can use OpenID to log into your Basecamp account and Highrise account. OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user identity management. You can find more information about 37Signal’s OpenID implementation [...]

Thanks to Ryan Stewart, I got an invite to the long rumored Kevin Rose startup, called Pownce. I have been playing around with it for some time and it is pretty interesting. As per their claim, you can send stuff with Pownce. You could pass on a quick note to your friend or share photos, [...]

In my previous article on the Startup 101 series, I spoke about the problems one will encounter if he/she starts the business alone. In this article I am going to talk about the various issues one should consider when selecting a business partner.

According to Mike Arrington, Google has acquired GrandCentral. You can follow the blogosphere buzz on this news here. In my opinion, this is a smart move by Google. Google has been pushing its Gtalk application for a long time. They integrated Gtalk with Gmail sometime back and, recently, they also created a Gtalk gadget. In [...]

The rumor mill is busy spinning out various merger/acquisition options for Yahoo. Starting with Microsoft’s takeover of Yahoo to Yahoo’s discussions with Facebook to News Corp’s attempt to control Yahoo by throwing the bait of Myspace to Yahoo-Ebay merger. Some of them are good for Yahoo while others are bad in the long term perspective. [...]