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Yahoo meets estimates, plans to lay off 10 percent of workforce

Yahoo's third quarter earnings weren't the complete train wreck that was expected as the company met Wall Street estimates and announced a long-awaited layoff. The company plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce in the fourth quarter. Yahoo statement, reported net income of $54.3 million,...

Tags: Revenue, Cost Management, Yahoo! Inc., Earnings, Workforce, Profits, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-21

We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it

Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Google to acquire NBC Universal? Why not!

Will John Battelle have to eat his Google words, AGAIN?In a typically Battellesque headline today, he responds to Bloomberg reports of calls for a General Electric spin-off of NBC Universal to the Googleplex by declaring: Google-NBC: Very dumb idea.How so? Battelle’s assessment: Analysts are saying that there is...

Tags: Wall Street, Video, Television, Radio, Profits, Internet Data, Google, Copyright, Content

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Google's YouTube, Viacom: Better off divorced!

The Google-YouTube-Viacom $1 billion copyright infringement tussle is sounding more and more like the prelude to a divorce settlement!I dissect Google in-house counsel Michael Kwun’s “he-said, she-said” legal “defense” preview in “YouTube: Why Google is running scared” AND provide my claim by claim counter argument to him for why his...

Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, TV, Television, ROI, Profits, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Google and Web 2.0: Alive and kicking!

Is Web 2.0 over? I asked last April Fool’s weekend.Today, Om Malik declares the end of Web 2.0 innocence, underscoring Google’s MyMaps launch as a tipping point.Malik: "The Web 2.0 story so far has been about taking APIs, mashups, low cost infrastructure and building applications that are then offered to...

Tags: Metrics, Google, Web 2.0, Search Advertising, Profits, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Google clients 'frustrated' by unprofitable AdWords buys

Buyers of Google AdWords are “becoming increasingly frustrated,” so says the Googler that started the first Google inside sales team in 2003, Adam Goldberg. Goldberg helped build the Google inside sales team to a $500 million dollar a year organization by touting the marketing ROI of spends on AdWords’...

Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Profits, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Brands, AdWords, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Google: Internet bubble 2.0?

In the immortal words of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan to President Jimmy Carter, “There you go again.” Henry Blodgett and Mary Meeker are “going again” with exuberant cheerleading for an Internet darling. Which is the “lucky” public company getting the Blodgett-Meeker props this Web 2.0 go around? The...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Search, Google, Blogs, Video, YouTube, ROI, Wall Street, Profits

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Google searches for TV ad dollars

Google is extremely confident, in itself. Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes in the “Power Law Distribution,” how it powers Google’s success, in particular. I heard Schmidt proclaim to Bear Stearns earlier this week a Google YouTube invincibility: “With only a small number of online video winners feasible, other players...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Google Search, Google Inc., TV, advertisement

Blog posts 2007-03-10

Google arrogant? Google CEO Eric Schmidt responds

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been making the rounds this week, the Wall Street rounds: Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on Monday and Bear Stearns Media Conference in Palm Beach yesterday.I listened attentively to his every keynote words (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion...

Tags: Profits, Google Apps, Search Advertising, ROI, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Search, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-03-07

Why Google will never pay for content

I hold an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. No MBA necessary, however, to grasp the American way, the American capitalist way that is: You get what you pay for! Why then does Wall Street darling, $140 billion market cap, 29% profit margin Google wantonly “make...

Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business Models, Click Fraud, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Profits, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Video, Wall Street, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Google warns of Microsoft, Yahoo competition

Google is warning shareholders of the “formidable competition” it faces from both Microsoft and Yahoo. Google considers Microsoft and Yahoo to be its primary competitors, acknowledging in particular that their Internet portals may have a greater ability to attract and retain users than Google does. On the Microsoft...

Tags: Business Models, Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Investors, Legal, Metrics, Microsoft, Profits, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Wall Street, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-03-04

Will Google diversification pay off in 2007?

Google to shareholders: Google Print Ads, Google Audio Ads and Google Checkout have had no material impact on Google revenues in 2006, 2005, 2004... Google must present an accurate assessment of the financial impact of its products and services in SEC mandated reports. Everywhere else, however, Google apparently is...

Tags: Advertising, Business Models, Google, Google Checkout, Google Software Applications, Government, Internet Data, Investors, Legal, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Print, Profits, Radio, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Wall Street

Blog posts 2007-03-04

Additional Resources

Cloud definitions and economics

Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Vizio unveils $1,999.99 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV for January release

Vizio decided to jump the gun on CES and announce some new home theater products today, including a 55-inch 120Hz 1080p LCD for just $1,999.99, another aggressive pricing decision that will once again drag the prices and profits down for the Samsungs and Sonys of the...

Tags: Home Theater, LCD, 1080p, Vizio, VF550XVT1A, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Can Facebook do anything without raising a ruckus?

Facebook rolls out what appears to be a fine move: Verify applications are trustworthy and validate them. I could use the help given I don't download a lot of Facebook apps since a lot of them would be described as crap. But this seemingly straightforward effort has raised a ruckus...

Tags: Facebook, Pricing, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Is the 'Green' in Green IT dead?

In a number of recent client interactions with both enterprise IT end users and vendors, the question of "Is the ‘green' in Green IT dead?" has come up. Primarily driven by the current economic climate, IT end users want to understand how relevant the environmental benefits of Green IT should...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Green IT, Doug Washburn

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Will Microsoft apply 'Vista-Capable' lessons to Win 7 netbooks?

As the e-mail trail in the "Vista-capable" class-action suit continues to unfold, I can't help but wonder whether Microsoft will apply some of the lessons it hopefully learned about working with OEMs to Windows 7 -- especially in the netbook space. The original suit, filed in March...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Passcode, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-11-17

BearingPoint's Q3 earnings call - part 1

To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint's BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...

Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Non-profit group looking to get greener? TechSoup adds green-tech resources

TechSoup Global, which is a technology information and education resource for non-profit groups that operates on an annual budget of $22 million, has been bitten by the green tech bug. The organization has started an effort called the GreenTech Initiative to help non-profits get a better handle...

Tags: Green Technology, TechSoup, Reduce Paper Use Challenge, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-14

AMD: Does the resurrection start with 'Shanghai'?

AMD on Thursday launched its Shanghai processor family--the successor to the much maligned Barcelona. The goal: Close the gap on server chips with Intel. The challenge: Convincing customers, shareholders and others in the peanut gallery that a turnaround at AMD is underway. Later today, AMD will try...

Tags: Shanghai, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Asset Management, Manufacturing, Balance Sheets, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-13