Leading VC firm opens in China

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has opened operations in China with offices in Beijing and Shanghai and formed a $360 million fund to invest in Chinese startup companies.

clipped from www.my-esm.com Leading VC firm opens in China Joe Zhou, formerly with Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF), and TDF Capital partners Tina Ju, David Su and Forrest Zhong are leading the KPCB China team. KPCB said its China team plans to invest its $360 million China Fund to assist Chinese entrepreneurs and to promote innovation in high-growth industries, including technology, Internet, media and wireless communications. The Fund will also invest in new consumer areas, healthcare and green technology.

Vudu - Apple TV's New Competitor

I don't like the design, but I can only give better comment until I know what this thing can do. But I always welcome competition...

clipped from gizmodo.com The box is about the size of a hardcover book and delivers video streamed in MPEG-4, which is upscaled to HD. It has HDMI, composite, and S-Video ports. Vudu goes online via an ethernet cable, and the media stream is managed through a load-sharing distributed network, which should guarantee instant access to the movies without stutters. The remote control has a scroll wheel (nice touch) and appears to have just five buttons. There are plenty of open questions about Vudu—like the size of the hard drive—which won't get answered until closer to the launch this summer. The price is going to be competitive with Apple TV, but probably a bit more expensive. Vudu [Teaser Page]

I Am Going to CeBit Australia

I just secured my ticket. I got my boss' approval to attend and I am going. This will be my second CeBit I attended. The first one was in Shanghai, which was huge.
Watch out this space as I will definitely try to cover it real time. And maybe even do the BloggerZone thing, where my feed will contribute overall CeBit newsfeed. That'd be awesome.
I am thinking to go for the dinner, but maybe next year. I am going to get the feeling first.

Tribute to Bill Gates

A clip from David Letterman's Show

A Day with Bill & Steve

Supermarket 2.0

A funny parody on Web 2.0 applications. I like the cookie joke...