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Google buys YouTube on the 'cheap': $1.65 billion in Google stock

Google buys YouTube on the 'cheap': $1.65 billion in Google stockCheap??Cheap? They have videos online that the resolution is so bad you need a magnifyng glass to see. The only real asset that Youtube had was a user database.Tv By Demandhttp://www.tvbydemand.com

Tags: Investment, Google Inc., Google Buys YouTube, Google Buys, Google stock, stock

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

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Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people Sam Diaz:Mobile VoIP services no longer taboo, following AT&T...

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Blog posts 2009-10-08

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Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale Dave Greenfield: Skype Founders Sue eBay and...

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Blog posts 2009-09-17

News to know: Kanye West; Bing Visual Search; Quicken-Mint; Sprint; 802.11n, Intel

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Oliver Marks: Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Bing gets visual search; full...

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Blog posts 2009-09-15

Google buys one of my favorite companies

If you've never heard of "On2 Technologies" you're not alone. Once a billion dollar company, On2 has fallen on hard times in the past few years and was acquired this week for around $100 million. It's sad though, because the company was responsible for much of the success of Adobe...

Tags: Video Codec, Google Inc., On2 Technologies, Patent, OGG, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Google buys video compression outfit On2 Technologies

Google buys video compression outfit On2 TechnologiesGood for GooglingGoes to show you that Google is moving forward on video streaming for handhelds. I would guess YouTube streaming at first. Considering how they're connecting people through Google Maps and such, I wonder if they'll add video conferencing/voice-mail/notes, etc. Maybe it's the...

Tags: On2 Technologies, Google buys video compression, Google Buys, video compression, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

News to know: Intel; Oracle, Microsoft patches; Azure; Mourning a dead laptop

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Intel shines: Earnings, revenue, margins well above estimates; Outlook better Andrew Nusca: PC sales to see biggest drop...

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Blog posts 2009-07-15

GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employee

GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employeeProfit is easy.When all you have to do is print more money.Google and MicrosoftMaybe it just takes more people to do what Microsoft does then Google? Microsoft actually make things, Google just sell ads and fool around with some...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., tech firm, MSFT

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

PowerPoint 101

PowerPoint 101I can't stand PowerPoint...Death by PowerPoint.... Life by Keynote....MS just needs to dump powerpoint all together. Talk about a horrible app.You touched on one of the big problems for portable documents.- People using spaces to indent, or extra returns to force a page break, or other such improvising.You need...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint 101

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

Google buy Twitter? Probably not the best move.

Google buy Twitter? Probably not the best move.Pay how much its worthTen bucks. Google spent millions on MySpace - only to have Facebook rise out of nowhere. Don't you think that if Google bought Twitter, some other service would pop up? It's not rocket science to do what Twitter has...

Tags: Operational accounting, Viruses and worms, Twitter, Google Inc., Jaiku

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target

Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...

Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Acquisition, Network, Twitter, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo as Ford, GM and Chrysler

Could Google, Microsoft and Yahoo be the equivalent of Ford, GM and Chrysler more than 60 years ago? That thought provoking question was raised by Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay, who cooks up weekend missives designed to make you go hmmm. The argument is an interesting one. Lindsay...

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Blog posts 2008-12-22

News to know: Facebookgate, XP, iPhone credit, greentech in 2009

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: 'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow? Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009 ...

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Blog posts 2008-12-22

Free? The 'Wired' Economy Is Still 80% Atoms, Not 100% Bits

Chris Anderson is in the “propagating ideas business.” The idea that he is propagating now is that “if the unitary cost of something is approaching zero, sell it for zero and make your money in something else.” Fundamentally, he says the Internet will be...

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Blog posts 2008-12-17

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

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Blog posts 2008-10-09

Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!

Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!It will come down to supportWill Google pull yet another "thanks for the free time, but it is Beta so we will not help you with it", or T-Mobile pushing it off on Google, to the same response?With the others you do have an infrastructure behind it,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Handhelds, Bottomline, Google Inc., mobile, phone, Leave Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

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