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Google acquisition game: GreenBorder the next Dodgeball?

Google vs. Symantec, McAfee? Not exactly was my immediate reaction to the public reaction to Google's "acquisition" of GreenBorder Tecnologies desktop security play.While the blogosphere generally caught wind of the deal a few days ago, it was actually a done deal weeks ago. When I learned of it a while back,...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Google buys Marratech e-meeting startup: Nerd paradise?

Marratech touts “work better with cross-platform, video conferencing on the Web." Acquired by Google, the engineer-led, Sweden based start-up matches a core Google “small” buyout acquisition strategy, as I analyzed last week in “Google buyouts are BAD business.” Is Google really a friend of entrepreneurs when it “thinks small”...

Tags: Google Apps, Google, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-04-20

Google no longer dodging Dodgeball!

Google no longer dodging Dodgeball!What are they?I'm having a hard time figuring out what this company is all about. Why exactly did Google buy them?http://one.revver.com/watch/66413/format/flv/affiliate/23672

Tags: Dodgeball, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-19

Google no longer dodging Dodgeball!

I have been questioning Googles seeming dodging of its buy-out of the two-person NYC-based Dodgeball start-up last year, see "Google’s Dodgeball, where is it now?" Dodgeball is apparently a Google orphan no more. Visitors to the "mobile social software" site are now asked to use a "Google Account" to sign-in...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-18

Web 2.0: Who needs VCs?

Silicon Alley VC Fred Wilson happily notes the disruptive effect of freely available Web 2.0 services on the Business Development workforce in “Business Development 2.0”:It used to be that web companies needed to hire one or more smart networkers and set them loose on all the other web companies in...

Tags: Dodgeball, Google Inc., Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-08-17

Google's Dodgeball, where is it now?

There hasn’t been much chatter about Dodgeball.com lately. Last Spring, it was all the rage when Google “acquired it.” Engadget reported:Well, what started as a service for interactive mobile social networks grew up a lot today; that's right, Dodgeball, the little project that could borne of NYU's ITP program got...

Tags: Dodgeball, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-07-18

Additional Resources

Literally follow your friends with foursquare

If Twitter asks "What are you doing?", foursquare asks, "Where are you and what's on your mind?" The reason Twitter blew up a few years ago at SxSW is because everybody there joined it. Everybody was going to parties and tweeting where they...

Tags: Twitter, App, SXSW, Foursquare, iPhone App, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-14

Yesssss! Grand Central survives Google's cuts

For a moment this morning, my heart sank when I heard that Google was cutting out some of its underperforming and duplicative services - Dodgeball, Mashup Editor and Notebook among them. I took a deep breath as I scanned the list in search of Grand Central, the virtual phone number...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Telecom & Utilities, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Google grows up; Restructuring tweaks signal end of adolescence

Google is growing up and tweaking its business on many fronts: It is closing up shop in some engineering centers, laying off recruiters, ending deals with contractors and killing projects that aren't delivering. Simply put, Google is acting like a real company. Although some folks Techmeme will...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Google rips off the band-aid, bad news all around

Google dropped a whole bunch of "bad news" on us today -- it reminds me of when you have to make that hard decision to either rip out one hair out at a time, or go for the gusto when ripping off a band-aid. Today, Google told...

Tags: Google Inc., Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Velocity Dodgeball 1.2 (Windows)

Velocity Dodgeball 1.2 gives you the control to enjoy action packed dodgeball in its classic team vs. team form in an exciting update to this Imagination Works classic. Start by creating your very own Velocity Dodgeball franchise and enter league mode. Earn cash for victories, putting it towards the improvement...

Tags: Team, Velocity, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2007-12-03

Google transfers domains including Gtaxes.com

Google transfers domains including Gtaxes.comHere's another one they owngoogleporn.comRE: Google transfers domains including Gtaxes.comWell, what about all the subdomains:*.spreadsheets.google.com 6 Jun 2006*.svc-1.google.com 6 Jun 20061.qos.google.com 216-239-33-25.google.com 31 Aug 2006216-239-37-81.google.com 31 Aug 2006216-239-37-82.google.com 31 Aug 2006216-239-37-83.google.com 31 Aug 2006216-239-37-84.google.com 31 Aug 2006216-239-45-4.google.com 24 Aug 200635820365512262.qos.google.com 66-102-14-1.google.com 31 Aug...

Tags: Google Inc., Oct, Jan, Sep 2007

Discussion threads 2007-11-21

Want to be bought by Google? Add "ku" to your company name

It looks like Google is on an acquisition kick again -- just a week ago, Google snapped up "Zingku" and today "Jaiku". Jaiku is similar to Twitter -- but it has a fairly small user-base comparatively. Keeping track of your friends, and pushing your own presence with services...

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Jaiku, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Social Networking, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-10-09

GDrive developer left Google for Facebook

A few months ago Justin Rosenstein, a developer on the GDrive project at Google, accepted a position at Facebook. He is just one of the many Googlers who recently found greener grass at the very popular social network site. A couple of months ago, after three...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Banning violent video games - Right or wrong?

Banning violent video games - Right or wrong?But where do you draw the line?Let's say someone were sick enough to design a game to simulate child trafficking. The object of the game was to abduct as many girls as possible, and you scored points based on how many customers you...

Tags: Games, game, violent video game, video game, video

Discussion threads 2007-06-19

Vote for your favorite communications/VoIP app

Webware, which is one of our sister CNET sites, is getting ready to close off voting for the best 100 websites and apps.Voting closes at 9 a.m. PT- just a few hours from the time this post is going up.There's a section for Communications- which includes VoIP.Here's a list of...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Google vs. Symantec, McAfee? Not exactly

Another day, another Google acquisition, AND another round of "game-over, Google winner."Good Morning Silicon Valley headlines the typical over reaction "The five scariest words in tech: Google has entered your market security version."The folks at Symantec, McAfee and the other big computer security outfits may want to requisition some extra antacids for the...

Tags: Google, Google Software Applications

Blog posts 2007-05-29

Microsoft to Google: Slow down! Is Steve Ballmer right?

Google may not be INSANE as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently lobbed, but CEO Eric Schmidt may very well be biting off more than he and his merry band of Googlers can successfully chew.Google’s high-speed battle with Microsoft I analyzed last month, and the race continues!What has transpired since Ballmer’s...

Tags: Microsoft, Google, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-04-29

Google dumped by Dodgeball founders

I wrote just days ago that Googles Dodgeball buyout is a case study in the not quite fairy tale happy ending for Web 2.0 hackers hoping to gain fame AND fortune via a quick Google flip.see Google buyouts are BAD businessThere is now an official unhappy ending, an anti-Google one:...

Tags: Investors, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-15

Google buyouts are BAD business

Will the real Google PLEASE stand-up! Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company are saying some wild and “crazy” things, literally.I heard Schmidt tell Wall Street last month that it is still “unclear” how revenue will be generated from its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube while nevertheless expressing supreme confidence...

Tags: YouTube, Venture Capital, VC, Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-04-12