Tag Archive | "Google"

Minnov8 Gang 155 – It’s the Data

Saturday, February 4, 2012

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Publisher and tech visionary, Tim O’Reilly, has repeatedly said that “Data is the Intel Inside“. O’Reilly was referring, of course, to Intel’s famous “Intel Inside” ad campaign touting the importance of their chips, mainly since chips are invisible inside a computer or device and it’s easy for competitors to market their chips as being equal [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 147 – Wanna Buy Some Wheat?

Friday, December 2, 2011

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The Gang is down at the CoCoMSP Minneapolis Grain Exchange facility and we talk with Don Ball, co-founder of CoCoMSP and a fun guy. It is always a delight to talk with Don about the future of work, what’s happening at CoCo, and why he actually can’t sell us some wheat anymore (Wikipedia article here: [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 144 – Smartphones & SmartScooters?

Friday, November 4, 2011

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A continued acceleration in all things mobile takes an interesting twist this week with a Best Buy VC investment in electric scooters. We then have on a special guest, Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter), to give the Gang and you an “update on all things mobile.” Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, and Phil Wilson [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 138 – Fate…or Plus?

Friday, September 23, 2011

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Lots of announcements this week with Facebook f8, Google+ opening up to everyone, and Forbes thinking our hometown technology retail success story, Best Buy, is in trouble. Our guest this week is Ben Theis, Field Marketing Lead for Google in Minnesota (and part of a team of five). He talks about what he’s doing here, [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 134 – GooglyAppSoft

Friday, August 5, 2011

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We’re pleased to have Julio Ojeda Zapata on this week as our guest host. He’d been on an adventure to California speaking at Google as an author (of his “iPad Means Business” book), being briefed as press by Apple on behalf of his tech column at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and visiting the new [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 132 – Hot Enough for ‘Ya?

Friday, July 22, 2011

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The Gang (minus Graeme) talks about the hottest stories of the week from NASA and the last shuttle launch; Apple’s blow-out quarter (as well as Google’s); Google+; Microsoft earnings; and much more. We only mention the stifling heat that passed us over this past week, instead focusing on the acceleration this summer of hot announcements [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 131 – Deals Baby!

Friday, July 15, 2011

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The Gang talks with Joseph Rueter, entrepreneur and co-founder of Deals.by (formerly “Locate My Deal”), the “Search Engine for Deals Near You“. Also discussed are numerous developments this past week and what it means for you. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins & Phil Wilson. Music: “Blue n Boogie” by Norman Hedman’s Tropique via the [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 130 – Tablets, Schmablets

Friday, July 8, 2011

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We talk Google+ and Google’s design changes, bring on our guest, Tom Sweeney, to discuss his startup Visiting Ours, and talk tablets. 2011 was projected by many to be the “year of the tablet” and it’s certainly shaping up to be just that…the year when the dramatic changeover from a PC-centric world to one of [...]

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Newsbytes for Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

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Newsbytes is a collection of links to articles and posts from around the ‘net of interest to Minnov8 readers: Apple sells 1 million iPads in 28 days. Took iPhone 74 days. Plus, Minnesota-based analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray estimated that Apple sold about 300,000 units over the weekend, similar to the 300,000 Apple sold [...]

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Minnesota iPhone App Developers Talk iPad and OS 4

Friday, April 9, 2010

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I’m having so much freaking fun with my iPad, I almost forgot to post this week.  I started asking my developer friends about it almost as soon as I got mine last Saturday, so I’ve had this post brewing for days now.  Then, I’m finally about ready to post it, and Apple goes and holds [...]

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