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- Google CEO tows Google line at D5
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have had closing honors at the D5 All Things Digital Conference in San Diego, but he didn't seize the moment to break new Google ground.By all reports, Schmidt offered his standard conference circuit pitch.1) On allegations of "massive copyright infringement" aka Viacom $1 billion dolllar lawsuit.Schmidt: "We follow...
- Tags: Google, CEO Interviews
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Google AdSense move over? Ecommerce meets contextual ad network in Tumri Publisher
- Does integrated online advertising and merchandising bring to mind “a romantic song set to light classical music”?Tumri Inc, named after the Indian Thumri genre of music, is aiming to build the world’s first online merchandising network and hopes its new Tumri Publisher launched today will be music to Web publishers’...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, ecommerce, CEO Interviews, Business Models, Advertising, AdSense
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Fox News Digital targets mobile advertising growth
- Fox News Mobile is a key component of the Fox News Digital strategy: “Now you can take your Fox News with you wherever you go,” Fox proudly offers. How does Fox News enable a “Fox on the go” strategy? I spoke with Jeremy Steinberg, VP, Digital Media Sales &...
- Tags: advertisement, Fox, mobile marketing
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Mpire online shopping mashup for $144 billion eCommerce opportunity: CEO interview
- Did you ever wish you could visit all the best shopping sites rolled into one? eBay, Amazon, Overstock, Yahoo, Shopping.com, Craigslist…and more in one place? Mpire.com metasearch and pricing analytics engine proclaims wish no more. The shopping “mashup” which launched last June debuts today an enhanced “universal shopping experience”...
- Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business Models, CEO Interviews, ecommerce, Marketing, Metrics, Search, Search Advertising, Software, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Google due for a fall? Donna Bogatin debates Danny Sullivan
- IS GOOGLE OVERRATED? TAPPED OUT? DUE FOR A FALL?Fast Company Magazine invited "two experts" to take sides:Donna Bogatin and Danny Sullivan HIGHLIGHTSBogatin: Googles search stallion has driven GOOG to a 400%-plus appreciation in just two years. Googles stock price is not sustainable long term, and neither is its domination in...
- Tags: Advertising, Blogs, Brands, CEO Interviews, Content, Copyright, Culture, ecommerce, Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Government, Internet Data, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Self-Promotion, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- GoFish CEO + Bolt CEO: Moving advertising from TV to Internet, Exclusive Interview
- Michael Downing, co-founder and CEO of GoFish, and Aaron Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Bolt Media, are enthusiastically looking forward to jointly growing a billion streams “made for Internet programming” advertising supported business, and they shared their enthusiasm with me this morning. In a New York-San Francisco conference call...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Advertising, CEO Interviews, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, TV, Television, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Social Capital, GoFish, Michael Downing
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Jim Lanzone's vision for Ask.com: 'Real Deal' Interview
- Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, has taken to extolling the IAC search engine property Ask.com as the “connecting glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of diverse Web properties and services.Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, however, prefers to see himself operating as a “chef” remixing content ingredients to create a better search experience for...
- Tags: Business Models, Local, Usability, Advertising, Search, Google, Blogs, CEO Interviews, Internet Data, Brands, Marketing, The Real Deal, ROI, Metrics, Ask.com, AskX strategy
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Craig on craigslist, one more time
- In "Craigslist: Paid classifieds killer, or impetus for more lucrative classifieds business," I put forth that:It is not for Craig Newmark, Jim Buckmaster, or any member of the craigslist community, to worry about “feelings” within the newspaper industry, or about the future of the newspaper industry. Rather, it is the...
- Tags: ecommerce, Self-Promotion, Amateur Content, Social Web, Yellow Pages, CEO Interviews, Craigslist, eBay, User-Generated Content, Culture, Citizen Journalism, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Gotuit for video your way: Do-it-yourself VOD programming
- Mark Pascarella is on a video entertainment mission. CEO of Gotuit Media, Pascarella believes viewers should be able to quickly access the parts of a video they are most interested in watching, on-demand.Gotuit seeks to “radically change how people consume on-demand content," by making Video On Demand VOD more than...
- Tags: ROI, Television, TV, YouTube, Video, VC, Venture Capital, CEO Interviews, Google, Advertising, Media, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-10
- Google Audio Ads EXCLUSIVE: Radio station owner 'Real Deal' interview
- Jack Taddeo, a radio industry veteran, expressed concerns to me about Google’s entry into radio advertising, particularly the Google dMarc impact on independent radio stations.Taddeo operates a radio station in the mid-west and leads Jack Taddeo Communications, a consultancy to the radio industry.I spoke at length with Taddeo about how...
- Tags: advertisement, Google Software Applications, Radio, Media, Advertising, Google, CEO Interviews, Marketing, Business Models, Local
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Want to be a sales genius?
- Genius.com co-founder & CEO David Thompson is on a sales mission: Help sales people sell, better.A marketing veteran of WebEx Communications, Thompson knows what it takes to make a sale online and he is applying that knowledge for the benefit of all sales people with the “on demand, real time,...
- Tags: Enterprise, CEO Interviews, Marketing, Genius, sales
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- Blip.tv vs. YouTube? Founder talks 'The Real Deal' in exclusive interview
- Blip.tv is not a blip in online video.I chatted at length with Mike Hudack, co-founder and CEO, today about how blip.tv came to be and where it is headed.Blip.tv has a simple tag line that encapsulates its straightforward mission: “a great service for great shows.” Hudack and his four...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., video, Mike Hudack, advertisement, Blip.tv
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
Additional Resources
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...
- Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect
- At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Benefits, Human Resources
- Videos 2008-07-25
- Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up
- Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...
- Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Microsoft buys DATAllegro
- Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer played online-services pitch man during his opening keynote at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM, explaining why Microsoft believes it must continue to invest heavily in search and advertising to remain competitive in the coming years. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Advertisement, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kevin Johnson, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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