Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2009: Ooyala – BusinessWeek

Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2009: Ooyala – BusinessWeek.

Another interesting startup takes a look into online video advertising. Also an ex-Googler who came up with this. So, it seems it helps to work in Google and then later start a new company. Rub some luck from it too.

Google’s iPhone

If Google can pull this right, they can seamlessly mimic Microsoft’s strategy in taking down Apple’s Operating System back in the good old Silicon Valley days. But this time, can Google deal with a smarter and more experienced Apple on the Smart Phone industry?

clipped from www.eweek.com Will Google’s Android Be the Tipping Point for Smart Phones? ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden says smart phones such as the T-Mobile G1 that are based on Google’s Android operating system for mobile and wireless devices could push smart phones into standardization. Perhaps, but Apple’s iPhone will continue to be a big seller even as Android, Symbian, RIM and other mobile operating systems get their share of the market. Will customers recognize a standard when they see one? I don’t believe so, which makes the standardization moot unless the carriers embrace it.

Health + Web Startup Gets $3 Million

It will be a matter of time when everyone uses the web to track and manage their health records and provisions.

clipped from www.techcrunch.com Zocdoc, the health appointment scheduling startup that launched at TechCrunch 40, has announced that Marc Benioff and Jeff Bezos – two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent figures – have joined the $3 million Series A funding round it raised last month that was led by Khosla Ventures. ZocDoc allows users to book their doctor appointments online, even for same-day appointments. The site is especially useful for urgent visits and procrastinators who may wait until the last minute for an eye exam or prescription refill. Doctors can also maximize the number of patients they see by using the system to help reschedule missed appointments or fill in last-second cancellations.

Health + Web Startup Gets $3 Million

It will be a matter of time when everyone uses the web to track and manage their health records and provisions.

clipped from www.techcrunch.com Zocdoc, the health appointment scheduling startup that launched at TechCrunch 40, has announced that Marc Benioff and Jeff Bezos – two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent figures – have joined the $3 million Series A funding round it raised last month that was led by Khosla Ventures. ZocDoc allows users to book their doctor appointments online, even for same-day appointments. The site is especially useful for urgent visits and procrastinators who may wait until the last minute for an eye exam or prescription refill. Doctors can also maximize the number of patients they see by using the system to help reschedule missed appointments or fill in last-second cancellations.

Google Share Price Drop

Can’t weather out the market downturn. Will you hold on to your Google stocks?

clipped from www.techcrunch.com Apparently more than a few traders had heart palpitations today. As the market closed, Google’s share price appeared to fall apart, falling to $200 from an opening price of $396. At least that’s what the Nasdaq ticker showed. That was $62 billion in market cap that was zapped away in the last four minutes before the fiscal quarter ended and the markets closed, and it was automatically reported by Google Finance and other sites (the comments here on MarketWatch’s uncorrected article show how freaked out some people were).

Music Industry Needs To Change

It’s time to change. The music industry must open up to the community. The future is all about social.

clipped from www.techcrunch.com Apple still controls about 85 percent of the digital download market, but these fees are also being paid by Amazon, Rhapsody, MySpace Music and others. The music publishers (who are often the artists themselves) want to future-proof their cut of the action and thus want to lock in as high a rate as possible. Apple and the record labels are arguing that the rates should be changed from a flat fee per song to a percentage of revenues. Apple wants to pay 6 percent of revenues, while the labels are suggesting 8 percent. Since, in the case of iTunes, this percentage would come out of the current 99 cents charged for each track, it actually amounts to a reduction in per track fees (6 cents and 8 cents respectively).

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