Ebb and flow in technology news
July 25th, 2007 by Benjamin KuoFollowing the technology industry day to day, I’m often surprised by the natural ebb and flow of the amount of technology news you see. Usually, the beginnings of the week are fairly busy, with less news (except merger and acquisitions) showing up toward the end of the week. And, summer (usually) is lighter than the rest of the year in terms of deals and announcements. News is usually a good barometer to how much is “happening” in any particular industry.
However, every so often you get a few days where things just seem to line up to make things very busy, or not busy at all. Yesterday, and today, were on opposite spectrums on the news scale. An example — not too many people here are aware that we have a sister site covering Silicon Valley (www.silicontap.com), which is essentially a version of socalTECH covering the venture industry up North — and on that site, yesterday there was a grand total of eight venture deals reported — on top of the regular flow of news you see in Silicon Valley on any day. However, today, there was practically nothing announced–not funding, not products, not new executives. You wouldn’t think all of Silicon Valley went home due to the power outage yesterday in San Francisco, but maybe they did?
