It has been 15 years since Marc Andreessen developed the Netscape Internet browser that introduced millions of people to the Internet. Marc Andreessen in 1996. Netscape was the dominant Web browser until Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer.

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WISH2009 will be held in Tokyo next week

A new Web community event WISH2009, a sort of mini "TechCrunch50" Japan version, will be held in Tokyo on August 21, 2009.It is a showcase of start-ups and organizations trying out a new things on the Web, and a place for Web innovators to gather and exchange ideas.  Please  …

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The San Francisco Business Times reported Friday that Mr. Arrington has incorporated a separate company called CrunchPad.

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We've all heard of Memphis or Texas style barbecue sauce. Now a Douglas County husband and wife team are looking to put Denver on the barbecue map.

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Six Degrees of Separation (Is There Such a Thing?)

Here it is folks, I am looking at May 15th as the start of the WOLF Camp build-up. Thank you all who have shown interest and advice in the program over the past 8 months.

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Steve Wozniak will be the new chief scientist of Fusion-io, a start-up company that makes flash-chips modules to store data. These modules are faster than traditional storage systems in servers.

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How Notre Dame frisbie teammates solved a personal problem and created worldwide opportunity to move books, minds, and hearts globally. Features online used bookseller www.BetterWorld.com. Includes audio interview with co-founder Xavier Helgesen.

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Cut the bio, cut the market share - make your pitch about product. This helpful pointers blog for tech entreprenuers has some helpful communications pointers every for every business person. (Inc.com, 9/10)

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An enterprising unemployed man who was caught dealing in magic mushrooms has been told he does not have to pay the more than €7,000 business start up money the German employment office gave him.

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Google has acquired Omnisio, an online video technology start-up, reportedly for $15m.

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If the Internet could speak with one voice, it would probably groan "oh, not again!" That's because every raving success story about Internet startups is tempered by dozens more that crashed and burned in a sea of wasted money, bad ideas, or unfulfilled hype.

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Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. More Articles and Seeds From blinkin

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Tesla Motors has hired one of Detroit's sharpest engineers to spearhead development of the four-door electric sedan it says will be rolling off an assembly line by the end of 2010.

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Entrepeneurs won't embrace Firefox 3.0

Most business entrepreneurs play it safer when dealing with software than in other aspects of their dealings and the launch of Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 has highlighted the issue.

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Trusera.com, founded by ex-Amazon exec Keith Schorsch, has left the beta testing stage and officially launched, ushering in a brand new site aimed at allowing people to share their health experiences and find answers among a community of people who've been there.

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I think that this article on starting a small business had a lot of useful tips.

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"I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job," recalls Pierre Omidyar. An unexpected success, that side hobby has today become the world's largest personal online trading community.

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A Virtual Office is just not the right fit for every company and every management team. Often, companies, when approaching the topic and considering a Virtual Office establishment for themselves tend to look at one half of the associated characteristics.

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MileMeter, a per-mile auto insurance start-up company that NOW's Insurance Project has been mentoring, won second place (over 900 applicants) in Amazon Web Service's Start-Up Challenge.

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Attention libertarians! Find out where the cold, dead hand of the state weighs lightest. Rankings provided by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.

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Jeff Shillitto, an entrepreneur from Edinburgh, has received an order from The United Nations World Food Programme, for five smartphone devices. This is the 1000th order that he has received in just one year for his Web-based retail business PowerupMobile.com.

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Mikem has created this "lens" on business bootstrapping at Squidoo. Leading off with a story from The Book of Business Anecdotes about the humble beginnings of The New Yorker.

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Based on an article about the troubles with interesting Venture Capital firms with that first start-up. It suggests bootstrapping as one option to get around the obstacles-at least in the beginning.

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London-based Business Angel Jeremy Gaunt reflects on how the current volatility in global equity markets will hit business start-ups hard.

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An upstart security research firm with a controversial business model is at the center of a debate over how software bugs should be disclosed.

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