Today in Tech: Netflix splits DVD and streaming businesses

• Today in Tech: Netflix lets Starz go

  Fortune's curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.

  * The Netflix-Starz partnership is no more, meaning all Starz content on the movie and TV-streaming service will be unavailable beginning next February. In a statement, Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings told Business Insider that domestic viewership of Starz content has declined to 8% given increasing content from MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 2, 2011 3:30 AM ET
  Posted in: AOL, AT&T, Economic Policy Institute, Facebook, Michael Arrington, Netflix, PC, Reed Hastings, Sequoia Capital, Sprint, starz, T-Mobile, TechCrunch, Twitter

• Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet

  Signs of exuberance are everywhere: Tesla roadsters, soaring real estate, overpriced vinegar - and eye-popping valuations for pre-IPO companies like Facebook and Zynga. So why are so many Silicon Valley denizens reluctant to use the B-word?

  By David A. Kaplan, contributor

  FORTUNE -- Michael Dreyfus, 49, is a leading real estate broker in the heart of Silicon Valley. During the winter he sensed the housing market was coming back, though he hadn't MORE

  Jul 11, 2011 5:00 AM ET
  Posted in: bubble, Facebook, Groupon, IPOs, LinkedIn, LivingSocial, Lou Montulli, Mark Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, MySpace, Netscape, Pandora Media, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley, Skype

• Today in Tech: This week's buzziest startup, Twitter creator returning?

  A curated selection of the day's newsworthy tech stories from all around the Web. Read on, and join the conversation with a comment below.

  The new social smartphone app, Color.

  This week, the startup everyone's buzzing about is Color, a free mobile app aimed at creating a social experience that maximizes the smart phone's unique technology. Users share and store photos and videos in visual diaries -- besides being able to view MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 24, 2011 9:48 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, AT&T, Bertrand Serland, comScore, Google, Jack Dorsey, LinkedIn, Mobile, MySpace, Sequoia Capital, Shashi Seth, T-Mobile, TechCrunch, Twitter, Windows Phone 7, Yahoo

• Inkling: The tablet textbook breakthrough

  The Silicon Valley startup reveals its establishment investors, an intriguing business model, and the future of interactive textbooks -- on iPads and beyond.

  Some technology advances change everything for their users in a way that is deeply visceral and memorable. I still remember, for instance, when I started using a Palm Pilot in 1997. The clunky device certainly was radical and all, but the epiphany for me was the sync-able desktop MORE

  Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Mar 23, 2011 3:01 AM ET
  Posted in: App Store, Apple, Felicis Ventures, Google, Inkling, iPad, McGraw-Hill, Sequoia Capital

• Today in Tech: Verizon iPhone unlimited plan, more Yahoo layoffs

  Though Yahoo's fourth quarter revenue and profit beat analyst estimates, its forecast for this quarter was significantly low enough -- revenue between $1.02 billion and $1.08 billion versus a consensus of $1.13 billion -- to send the Internet giant's shares down 4% by yesterday afternoon. (Tech Trader Daily)
  Yahoo also laid off about 1%, or likely around 100-150, of its current global staff. "The personnel changes we are making are part MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jan 26, 2011 6:34 AM ET
  Posted in: Amazon Web Services, AT&T, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Intel, iPhone, iPhone 4, Mobile, Sequoia Capital, Social, Verizon Communications, Verizon iPhone, Yahoo

• Today in Tech: MySpace layoffs, Facebook worth $50 billion?

  A curated selection of the holiday weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

  Cheap flat-panel maker Vizio intends to make a splash today by unveiling two notable products that marks a company first: the Via Phone with a 4-inch screen, front-facing camera for video calls, and a 5 megapixel rear cam, as well as the Via Tablet, sporting a 8-inch high-res screen, WiFi (of course), three speakers, and a MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jan 3, 2011 6:00 AM ET
  Posted in: All Things Digital, Android, Apple, Facebook, Google, iTunes, Jack Dorsey, Mobile, MySpace, Samsung, Sequoia Capital, Square, TechCrunch, Verizon, Vizio, Vodaphone, Wall Street Journal, Wi-Fi

• Can social apps kill enterprise software?

  Big, expensive, custom software from blue-chip software and consulting companies has been a rule of thumb for giant corporations for decades now. Is it possible a new breed of cloud-oriented startups can change all that?

  Anyone who's had to sort through a clunky "reply all" email chain at work or tried to post a document to the intranet knows that there's got to be a better way. In fact, they probably MORE

  Shelley DuBois, writer-reporter - Nov 1, 2010 10:46 AM ET
  Posted in: Bridgescale Partners, Daniel Debow, Facebook, Fortune 500, Rypple, Salesforce Chatter, Sequoia Capital, Twitter, Yammer

• The right way to lay people off

  By Ben Horowitz, contributor

  Cloud computing company Opsware was nobody's darling. Then founders Andreessen and Horowitz put the company through three rounds of layoffs. The unlikely result was a big buyout -- here's how it happened.

  "I'm tryin' to right my wrongs / But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song" -Kanye West

  Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), I had a conversation with the legendary venture MORE

  Sep 20, 2010 1:19 PM ET
  Posted in: Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz, Business, cloud computing, employment, Hewlett-Packard, human resources, Intuit, Layoff, Opsware, Sequoia Capital, venture capital, Wall Street Journal

• Sweet! Is Sugar the future of publishing?

  The women-centric collection of sites is shaking up the web -- and traditional media.

  Lisa Sugar's celebrity blog morphed into an online empire. Photo: Sugar Inc.

  The state of affairs in publishing is beyond depressing. Unless, of course, by publishing you mean the shiny new online-only startups who are behaving as if it were boom times for journalism. An example is Sugar Publishing, the 3 1/2-year old blogging company that MORE

  Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Nov 19, 2009 10:34 AM ET
  Posted in: Google, People.com, Sequoia Capital, Sugar Inc., Time Warner