June 22, 2007
Intel’s far out research projects
The Tech Chronicles
Tom Abate was invited by Intel to preview the chipmaker futuristic computing projects. He has a full report on his blog.
“For the fifth year in a row Intel Corp. showed off selected research projects to members of the public as well as to its own engineers.It’s very important to show the people building future Intel products what the people in the labs are cooking up, said Intel technical strategist Manny Vara. Among the projects unveiled were.”
What secret does your laptop hold?
Tech Web
Barbara Krasnoff has an interesting piece on what’s inside your notebook.
“What do you have on your laptop that you might not want anyone else to see?”
Business.com is up for sale
Tech Crunch
Michael Arrington retells the story of arguably the most famous Web site in history.
“Business information directory and search enginame Business.com is for sale, reports the Wall Street Journal, and it may fetch as much as $400 million. Investment bank Credit Suisse is representing the company. The domain name was purchased for $7.5 million back in 1999. Later, the purchase was widely ridiculed – in 1997 the domain was acquired for just $150,000. Those were the days before CPC ads and parked pages, though, which brought the value of domains up exponentially. The risk paid off. Business.com now has EBITDA of around $15 million/year. A $400 million acquisition price is a 26 multiple on current revenue, which is on the high end of current valuations. The WSJ reports that Dow Jones & Co. and New York Times are likely bidders. Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, “declined to comment” to the reporter, who also works for Dow Jones. I love those ethical walls.”
