{"id":217602,"date":"2010-01-23T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/23\/roundup-china-fires-back-at-us-q4-venture-numbers\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:00:22","slug":"roundup-china-fires-back-at-us-q4-venture-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217602","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: China fires back at US, Q4 venture numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest action:<\/p>\n<p><strong>China fires back against Clinton<\/strong> &#8212; In response to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s call for China to investigate Google&#8217;s claims that human rights activist email accounts were hacked, the country&#8217;s Foreign Ministry <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704509704575018491868895922.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEADSecond\">posted a messaging<\/a> saying the Obama administration was making &#8220;groundless charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dow Jones VentureSource shows uptick in venture investing<\/strong> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2010\/01\/22\/dow-jones-venturesource-q4-2009\/\"> VentureSource found<\/a> that after a crummy year for startups raising money, VC funding actually went up during the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. You can compare VentureSource&#8217;s data with<a href=\"http:\/\/deals.venturebeat.com\/2010\/01\/21\/moneytree-venture-capital-investment\/\"> the MoneyTree report<\/a> from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-155416\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2010\/01\/23\/china-google-clinton-venturesource\/tjcreamer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-155416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/37e66_tjcreamer.jpg\" alt=\"tjcreamer\" width=\"250\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>Astronaut tweets from space<\/strong> &#8212; Previous &#8220;tweets from space&#8221; have involved email messages sent by astronauts to people back on the ground who actually post the message on Twitter. In this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13577_3-10439573-36.html\">astronaut T.J. Creamer posted the tweet himself<\/a>, via the International Space Station&#8217;s LAN connection. His message: &#8220;Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station&#8211;the 1st live tweet from Space! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/37e66_icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/>  More soon, send your ?s&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google vs. Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Yahoo<\/strong> &#8212; To help understand how these four tech giants compete, The New York Times&#8217; Nick Bilton <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/a-big-picture-look-at-google-microsoft-apple-and-yahoo\/\">created a chart<\/a> showing the different markets where each company has a product. Among his conclusions: &#8220;Microsoft competes with everybody&#8221; and &#8220;Apple is the only one of the four that charges for online services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin petitions against Google Books settlement <\/strong>&#8211; Le Guin (who is among my favorite living writers) previously resigned from the Authors Guild to protest the settlement. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/jan\/22\/ursula-le-guin-revolt-google-digital\">she has created a petition <\/a>asking that the United States be exempted, and that petition has been signed by nearly 300 authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-155417\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2010\/01\/23\/china-google-clinton-venturesource\/kevin-rose\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-155417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2847e_kevin-rose.jpg\" alt=\"kevin rose\" width=\"250\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>Digg to go real-time &#8230; eventually<\/strong> &#8212; Kevin Rose, founder of the popular news aggregator, has been talking about overhauling the site and making it more &#8220;real time&#8221; for almost a year. Now<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/7046519\/Drastic-Digg-overhaul-could-shock-users-says-Kevin-Rose.html\"> he&#8217;s telling the Telegraph<\/a> that the redesign will go live in a few months, and it will be the biggest change in the site&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WwxoQuRzXto-rqumPIrldx8HLMM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2847e_di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WwxoQuRzXto-rqumPIrldx8HLMM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/51ed3_di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=iQnbJHZlpW8:jsyVp6-UL28:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/58dcf_Venturebeat?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=iQnbJHZlpW8:jsyVp6-UL28:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/58dcf_Venturebeat?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=iQnbJHZlpW8:jsyVp6-UL28:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4721f_Venturebeat?i=iQnbJHZlpW8:jsyVp6-UL28:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=iQnbJHZlpW8:jsyVp6-UL28:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4721f_Venturebeat?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Venturebeat?a=iQnbJHZlpW8:jsyVp6-UL28:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4721f_Venturebeat?i=iQnbJHZlpW8:jsyVp6-UL28:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4721f_iQnbJHZlpW8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Venturebeat\/~3\/iQnbJHZlpW8\/\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest action: China fires back against Clinton &#8212; In response to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s call for China to investigate Google&#8217;s claims that human rights activist email accounts were hacked, the country&#8217;s Foreign Ministry posted a messaging saying the Obama administration was making &#8220;groundless charges.&#8221; Dow Jones VentureSource shows uptick in venture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}