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Archive for December, 2010

The May Report: 12/30/2010: Melanie Adcock’s two scoops: First, Anthony Hand is leaving Motorola for Samsung and San Jose, CA; the leadership of MoMo will change; and Second, Tech Nexus has a well hidden and not much known about benefit — a gym; Edward Domain’s complete lack of domain expertise and his Howerton-driven smack down of the CSA and the Chicago tech community pre-ITA; Tom R. Bennett on Pay-to-Play Corruption at Marty Nesbitt’s CHA; Antonio Wells; the ten dumbest tech moves of 2010; China, rare earth minerals and the Serengeti Plain; a David Weinstein sighting; Ted Widen was just interviewed on Channel 5

The May Report December 30th, 2010

The May Report: 12/22/2010: Melanie Adcock on Building a Viable Mobile App Business- An Interview with Jim Figliulo from Fig1; American Airlines pulls Orbitz listings; Groupon hires first CFO from Amazon; GiveForward to close on $500K in funding; Cary Nourie is back in Chicago and gone from the Kansas Bioscience Authority; The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy — The Case of WikiLeaks

The May Report December 22nd, 2010

The May Report: 12/22/2010: Melanie Adcock on Building a Viable Mobile App Business- An Interview with Jim Figliulo from Fig1; American Airlines pulls Orbitz listings; Groupon hires first CFO from Amazon; GiveForward to close on $500K in funding; Cary Nourie is back in Chicago and gone from the Kansas Bioscience Authority; The Hazards of Nerd…

The May Report: 12/20/2010: Jason Rexilius on NowSpots; Chris Sweis on Junowallet; Ron Kirschner on All Cell and Kylin Therapeutics; Ara Berberian on HoodFind and what could have been ala Groupon; Tom Figel on Southern Wisconsin Start-Up Accelerator; Sears Holdings goings on; Ditto for the Tribune and 435 Digital; BMOV Media; Jason Shah of Mediafly; Jeffrey Hoffman of Priceline; and more….

The May Report December 20th, 2010

The May Report: 12/20/2010: Jason Rexilius on NowSpots; Chris Sweis on Junowallet; Ron Kirschner on All Cell and Kylin Therapeutics; Ara Berberian on HoodFind and what could have been ala Groupon; Tom Figel on Southern Wisconsin Start-Up Accelerator; Sears Holdings goings on; Ditto for the Tribune and 435 Digital; BMOV Media; Jason Shah of Mediafly;…

The May Report: 12/18/2010: midVentures draws about 130; Social Media Club Chicago draws 150; Lean Tech Start Up draws about 80 and guess what? Stan ‘Howerton’ Laurel and Oliver ‘Hoch’ Hardy abandoned the S. S. ITA to go to The Sync while a major event was going on in their facility; Pyramid scheme of Jerry Mitchell or how Jerry “made off” with the MEF; What’s Gary Slack’s word worth? — Just 3 yrs, that’s all as Slack removes Barshinger from the door; New Life Community Health Center 1st at UIC’s C2V business plan competition; Exciton Systems 2nd; and Cab Tracker 3rd

The May Report December 18th, 2010

The May Report: 12/16/2010: Dan Frommer of Business Insider is reporting that Groupon is looking for hundreds of millions of dollars after the supposed deal with Google fell apart; What is really going on at Sears Holdings?

The May Report December 16th, 2010

The May Report: 12/16/2010: Dan Frommer of Business Insider is reporting that Groupon is looking for hundreds of millions of dollars after the supposed deal with Google fell apart; What is really going on at Sears Holdings? Editor and publisher: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com, www.themayreport.com , 773-525-3944. Assistant editor: Melanie Adcock, iPHONE: 312-259-0610, melanie_adcock@msn.com If you missed…

The May Report: 12/15/2010: Holiday parties in full bloom: MIT-EF revelry was on a big ship moored to the harbor and no one got sea sick; We’re back again to the non-transparent and irksome ITA policies with respect to meeting and party attendance; Greg Brown of Motorola Solutions one of 20 CEOs to meet with President Obama today; January 4, 2011 is the big stock split day for MOTO — if you paid $4 a share, you’re sitting pretty; OK, what is SCRUM?; Bob Geras rumored to have been in Hong Kong recently

The May Report December 15th, 2010

The May Report: 12/15/2010: Holiday parties in full bloom: MIT-EF revelry was on a big ship moored to the harbor and no one got sea sick; We’re back again to the non-transparent and irksome ITA policies with respect to meeting and party attendance; Greg Brown of Motorola Solutions one of 20 CEOs to meet with…

The May Report: 12/12/2010: With all the hoopla about Groupon, it’s nice to know that some firms that grew slowly, steadily and were founded in 1999 have finally made out A-OK: SurePayroll is sold for $115MM in cash to PayChex (PAYX) with promises that things will stay in tact; the VCs get their $17MM back and then some; Troy Henikoff and Michael Alter are happy campers; Tech The Halls draws 170 on a cold wintry night and yours truly stays until 3am or when the last dog dies — and no Rollyson, Dalka or Willinger so it was a good night

The May Report December 12th, 2010

The May Report: 12/12/2010: With all the hoopla about Groupon, it’s nice to know that some firms that grew slowly, steadily and were founded in 1999 have finally made out A-OK: SurePayroll is sold for $115MM in cash to PayChex (PAYX) with promises that things will stay in tact; the VCs get their $17MM back…

The May Report: 12/10/2010: No time for anything right now, turn on Channel 5. Andrew Mason is about to be interviewed on The Today Show at about 7:40am.

The May Report December 10th, 2010

The May Report: 12/10/2010: No time for anything right now, turn on Channel 5. Andrew Mason is about to be interviewed on The Today Show at about 7:40am. ________________________________________ Subject: MoMo Holiday Party Dec. 6 at English Bar and Grill Date: 12/10/2010 3:36:43 A.M. Central Standard Time From: melanie_adcock@msn.com To: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com MoMo Holiday Party…

The May Report: 12/6/2010: Melzinie muses on who might be the next Groupon; and many other things….including what Judy Tullman told a source of mine about Rahm….

The May Report December 6th, 2010

The May Report: 12/6/2010: Melzinie muses on who might be the next Groupon; and many other things….including what Judy Tullman told a source of mine about Rahm…. Editor and publisher: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com, www.themayreport.com , 773-525-3944. Assistant editor: Melanie Adcock, iPHONE: 312-259-0610, melanie_adcock@msn.com If you missed an article, go here: www.tmronline.com/A55951/tmrarticles.nsf/vwFullNewsletter ___________________________ **************************************** Funding Feeding Frenzy…

The May Report: 12/5/2010: When Mercury is going into retrograde, things go haywire in technology which may explain why Comcast is out of commish for 2 million people tonight and why Facebook is changing its format in the morning; Augmented reality is hip these days; Advice for entrepreneurs on how to talk to developers; No idea if it is true, but rumor has it that Paul Humenansky has been arrested — hey, if Kara Swisher can rumor monger, so can I

The May Report December 5th, 2010

The May Report: 12/5/2010: When Mercury is going into retrograde, things go haywire in technology which may explain why Comcast is out of commish for 2 million people tonight and why Facebook is changing its format in the morning; Augmented reality is hip these days; Advice for entrepreneurs on how to talk to developers; No…

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