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Is television the final frontier for Apple ? Speculations are plenty …

Rumored iTV Could Pave Way for Apple-Connected Television | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD.

Starting a business seems intimidating at first; it really isn’t. Nowadays – one can start a business pretty easily just by going to websites such as legalzoom.com

Came across this interesting article on WSJ regarding starting a business.

Entrepreneurs Who Launched Companies for Under $150 – WSJ.com.

Interesting article in WSJ on the role of angel investors in new startups.

There are so many new start-ups coming up from all over the world, that the market needs somebody to “separate the wheat from the chaffe”, as the barrier to entry for a start-up goes lower, the barrier to success goes higher !

‘Super Angels’ Fly In to Aid Start-Ups – WSJ.com.

This is a major milestone for the dotcom age. The published books have been around for 200 years and Amazon is one of the pioneers in selling books over the web. They just announced that the first time e-Book sales have surpassed published books.

Amazon Says E-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers – WSJ.com.

This also indicates that Apple’s timing of releasing the iPad is perfect at the market inflection point. Apple has already sold 3.3 Million iPads since its April 3rd launch date – thats apprx: 36000 iPads a day !

IMO – this is a significant shift towards a more widespread dotcom economy.

This is a great introductory article on leveraging Facebook for your business. Here is an excerpt from the article:

In this post, we’ll give you an idea of how to use Facebook for your business and self-promotional efforts. Below, you will find best practices for custom Facebook fan page designs, with various approaches to creating an attractive, descriptive and engaging Facebook business page. In addition, the selection of tutorials and resources for Facebook fan page development might help you get started with your own effective Facebook presence.

And here is the link:

Designing A Facebook Fan Page: Showcases, Tutorials, Resources – Smashing Magazine.

Google Secretly Invested $100+ Million In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games.

Zynga is now the largest gaming platform and it has beaten all the traditional gaming consoles by a long shot – through the social gaming aspect.

It’s a bit surprising why Google had to “secretly” invest money in Zynga ?

Anyway – checkout the new game from Zynga called Frontierville.

Venture funding and startup activity promising …

U.S. Venture Capital Fundraising Up 13 Percent In First Half Of 2010 To $7.5B.