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- News Corp. prepares to destroy more online value
- Finally Good PointsYou may have wanted to mention that comcast wanted to buy out 51 percent and then charge. Maybe they are delaying the inevitable but a reverse scenario? Due to sites like Hulu and other I and other have not paid for cable or satellite for over 3 years....
- Tags: OpenOffice, Piracy, Blogging, Network technology, Hulu, News Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Ballmer on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal: 'Nobody gets it'
- Ballmer on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal: 'Nobody gets it'I was ge... liquidity means monetization, wha?I didn't really care. It's a better idea than Microsoft buying Yahoo (from Microsoft's point of view.)One day is too soon for the wisdom of the crowd to truly kick in (and I am dubious about the...
- Tags: Investment, Bing, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- Rupert Murdoch: Worst over; MySpace exec changes will regain momentum
- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch says it "is increasingly clear that the worst is over" for the economy and ad market. Meanwhile, Murdoch said that the executive changes at MySpace will restore the site's momentum, make the site "more attractive" and deliver more ad friendly inventory. Murdoch---speaking...
- Tags: Advertisement, Rupert Murdoch, MySpace, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- It's a Flat World after all
- Flat World Knowledge, whom we profiled last November, has closed an $8 million round of venture funding. Hooks Johnston, General Partner at Valhalla Partners, compared Flat World's potential to that of the MP3, but its real innovation is the same one powering this blog, a business model...
- Tags: Author, Sales Strategy, Digital Music, Strategy, Blogging, Digital Media, Leadership, Sales, Personal Technology, Management, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Intel: HP accounts for 20 percent of annual sales
- Intel said in its annual report that Hewlett-Packard accounted for 20 percent of Intel's revenue, up from 17 percent in 2007. Dell accounted for 18 percent in 2008, flat with 2007. No other customer accounted for more than 10 percent of sales, according to Intel's annual regulatory...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Lehman Brothers Inc., Sales, Intel Corp., Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- AMD posts 9th straight loss; reveals Intel concerns about planned spin-off
- Silicon Valley chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices reported a fourth quarter net loss of $1.4 billion, or $2.34 per share, on revenue of $1.16 billion, a 33 percent drop from the same quarter a year ago. For the year, the company reported a net loss of $3.1 billion on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Finance, Hardware, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- Oracle's second quarter in line; Ellison takes aim at Salesforce.com
- Oracle's second quarter was roughly in line with expectations as earnings excluding charges hit targets on lower than expected revenue. Meanwhile, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who picks on a competitor every quarter, said the company had "several recent wins over Salesforce.com" for on-demand software. Oracle reported second...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Software License, Quarter, Earnings, Larry Ellison, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Asking a paranoid question
- Asking a paranoid questionI don't know...But I'll venture an answer anyway, because this is all in the name of fun...I don't think inserting instructions is possible.Disruption almost certainly is, although I would have to question the economy of targetting specific interconnects between components. The problem is that anything you...
- Tags: Servers, volt, Asking, motherboard
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
- EIC Podcast: Wall Street; Sarah Palin's email; Web 2.0
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Wall Street, Sarah Palin's email being hacked and the state of Web 2.0. The technology sector took a back seat to Wall Street this week. That's where the drama was. We had meltdowns and bailouts and a...
- Tags: Web, Wall Street, Feds, Web 2.0, E-mail, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- TechForward advocates the cause of temporary ownership
- I have been MEANING to write about the Los Angeles-based start-up TechForward for weeks now, but felt like I didn't have enough time to write the truly thoughtful post that it deserved. Now, I'm forcing myself to get off my butt, strangely enough, because I'm having a moral dilemma over...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronics, TechForward, Lebovitz, Retail, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- NetSuite cuddles up with OpenAir buy
- NetSuite made its first ever acquisition today, buying Boston-based professional services automation vendor OpenAir, which I once described as "one of the most consistent performers of the on-demand applications sector." I had a joint call this morning with OpenAir CEO Morris Panner and NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, both of whom...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., On-demand Financial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Twitter gets funding; Now stabilize the patient
- Twitter has received $15 million in venture funding, according to Om Malik. Now the fun really begins: Twitter needs to change its architecture on the fly. Om reports that the latest round means that Twitter has raised about $20 million in total VC backing. ...
- Tags: Patient, Twitter, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Web Servers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales
- Update: Intel's first quarter results on Tuesday matched Wall Street's earnings estimates and topped revenue targets. Given the worries about Intel those results are good enough to chalk up as a win. By the numbers statement, Intel reported net income of $1.4 billion, or 25 cents a share,...
- Tags: Revenue, Intel Corp., Wall Street, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to Linux
- In my previous post about last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, I talked a little bit about the structure of the event and the overtures that Microsoft seems to be making towards the Open Source community. Some of my esteemed industry colleagues feel that Microsoft is never to be trusted, that...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, File System, Microsoft Corp., Glasnost, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Customization: curse or blessing?
- At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...
- Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- ROI is so Business 1.0: not
- As social computing technologies start to make their presence felt in larger enterprises, the ROI question looms large in people's minds. Or rather the CFOs mind. Like it or not, any enterprise project is going to require a check cutting and unless it is something that goes under the departmental...
- Tags: Conversation, Social Computing, ROI, Sales, Assumption, CFO, Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- EMC buys Mozy; Roger Rabbit missing
- A passing comment made several years ago has always stuck in my mind. I forget who said it, but he was talking about the unrealistic economics of early online backup providers. They had used their dot-com era venture funding to buy into high-end EMC storage infrastructure and were subsequently saddled...
- Tags: Backup, EMC Corp., Mozy, Backups, Storage, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Summer Davos in Dalian China
- Last week I was in Dalian, China for the World Economic Forum Inaugural Meeting of the New Champions. That’s a mouthful, so the Chinese simply called it the “Summer Davosâ€. It makes sense as this feels very much like Davos only a bit smaller and slightly more relaxed and less...
- Tags: China, Venture Capital, Davos, World Economic Forum, Dalian China, John Newton
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Microsoft launches new low-cost PC effort in India
- Microsoft launches new low-cost PC effort in India$500?!That seems really high for a low end machine. You can buy low end machines for less than that one at a time, much less in high quantities. One has to wonder how much of that price is just for windows.I wonder which...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, US$500, PC, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
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