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- Amazon Web Services: Reading the financial tea leaves
- One of the more interesting lines of Amazon's earnings report was the "other" line, which largely includes Amazon Web Services such as S3 and EC2. Reading the tea leaves it appears that Amazon's side ventures are gaining momentum. Unfortunately, tea leaves are all we have. Amazon Web...
- Tags: Financial, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Microhoo careens toward closure: Assessing the moving parts
- Updated: The Microsoft-Yahoo saga appears to be heading toward closure, but there are multiple loose ends to tie up. Microsoft has set the pace with a three week deadline--quickly becoming two weeks--for Yahoo to join negotiations, but Jerry Yang and company are proving that they have more strategic alternatives in...
- Tags: Antitrust, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microhoo, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Google paid click growth sluggish in February; More worries emerge
- ComScore has delivered its paid click report for February--also known as the most anticipated metric in the Web world these days--and the news isn't so hot for Google. According to Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney and Bank of America analyst Brian Pitz said Google's paid clicks were up...
- Tags: Google Inc., ComScore Networks Inc., February, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Internet sales tax a big hang-up for alleged Amazon-Netflix deal
- Amazon is allegedly pondering a purchase of Netflix, but rumor mongers may want to ponder some tax implications before jumping the gun. Netflix NFLX shares were last up almost 6 percent on rumors that Amazon AMZN was interested in acquiring the movie rental site. Now let's entertain these rumors, which...
- Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, Hollywood on Demand, General, Entertainment, E-commerce, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Google-DoubleClick: Get ready for the fallout
- Google-DoubleClick: Get ready for the falloutIs Google crazy?Quoting the Comment:"I argued that Microsoft had to buy DoubleClick. Let's amend that: There's no way Microsoft should pay more than $3 billion for DoubleClick. That price–25 to 31 times EBITDA according to Pitz–is crazy."Google paid $3.1 billion in cash. If that...
- Tags: Investment, Google Inc., DoubleClick Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-14
- Google-DoubleClick: Get ready for the fallout
- Google paid $3.1 billion in hard cash for DoubleClick in a deal that could transform online advertising. At the very least, Google gets an entry into the display ad market--one of its weaknesses relative to rivals such as Yahoo. Now...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
- Can Google bring business intelligence to offline advertising?
- Google announced its long-awaited TV ad trial with Echostar and Astound in what has become a long line of offline advertising forays. Whats Google up to? Creating a dashboard for advertising services. In other words, Google is trying to do what business intelligence companies do today...
- Tags: Web Technology, Search, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Yahoo's Panama out of the gate strong, but ...
- ComScore is out with a report that shows Yahoos Panama search advertising system is off to a swell start. How swell? In the two weeks since Panamas launch click through rates were up 5 percent and 9 percent. For Yahoo,...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Google, Search, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Reaction to Yahoo reorg decidedly mixed
- Wall Street has spoken on the Yahoo reorganization--and its not sure what to make of it yet. Some analysts say the moves dont address Yahoos technology gap against rivals while others were more optimistic. All agree that Yahoo cant allow the management changes to be a...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Web Technology, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
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