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- Google online auctions for employee stock options
- GOOG is a powerful recruiting incentive for Google. Google is now embarking on an innovative online auction process enabling Googlers to sell vested stock options:Under the Transferable Stock Option program, employees will still be able to exercise their options, but will also be able to sell their options to financial...
- Tags: Value at Risk, financial company, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Google, Culture
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Land value taxation and the stock market
- According to economic theory, the shares of a public company should be worth the discounted net present value of its future earnings divided by the number of shares issued. That's theory, but Google today has a market cap of $100 billion on revenues of perhaps $6 billion while Sun has...
- Tags: stock market, Sun Microsystems Inc., analogy, surplus, market capitalization, Google Inc., theory, stock
- Blog posts 2005-11-04
- Adding value to other's content
- Who does the following scenario describe: An online Web site grabs a bunch of content created by others and puts ads on it in an effort to generate cash. Content owners are angry at being exploited. ...
- Tags: Value at Risk, Google Inc., Splogs
- Blog posts 2005-10-19
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- How green is your vendor?
- Gartner analyst Simon Mingay on Tuesday unveiled ratings for technology vendors to highlight who's talking green and who's actually delivering. Just don't expect anything too quantitative just yet. Mingay's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo caught my attention given that every vendor is...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walk
- Google and Yahoo are talking to the Department of Justice about heading off an antitrust suit over the companies' search advertising deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and Yahoo are offering up concessions to the Department of Justice to push their deal through. For Google,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Search, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Google will appeal German copyright decision
- In a decision that directly conflicts with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' interpretation (Perfect10 v. Google, PDF), a German court has ruled that Google's display of a thumbnail image of a photographer's work violates his copyright. "It doesn't matter that thumbnails are much smaller...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- SAP's forced march may be good news
- At SAP TechEd Berlin, Leo Apotheker, co-CEO reinforced the message that the enhancement packages will significantly reduce the amount of testing that customers need undertake as part of an upgrade. However, consultants disagreed. Jim Spath of Black and Decker for instance said: "There is no way we...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad Sean...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over
- Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except...
- Tags: FCC, Airwave, Wireless Internet, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?
- Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no
- Microsoft announced, as expected, on Monday that the second version of its Silverlight browser plug-in is done and will be available imminently for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. An Apple iPhone port is not in the works, due to Apple restrictions,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- IT warning: Turbulence ahead
- The technology budget is on the skids. The business types don't quite get IT (and by the way you don't get them either). And amid all this turmoil all you have to do is keep your infrastructure humming and solve the 25 most contentious business-technology issues by the first half...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Opera 10 will be 'prettier'
- Many users, especially of Apple, found Opera's latest version 9.6 unpleasant on the eye. But the company says its next major update will be prettier. The next major release of Opera for the desktop will be 'prettier' than the current version of the browser, claims the company. ...
- Tags: Opera Software, Lawson Software Inc., Hicks, Web Browsers, Internet, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Opera, browser, Opera 10.0
- News items 2008-10-13
- Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords
- When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at risk
- A stolen laptop belonging to consulting firm Deloitte contained confidential personal data belonging to 150,000 UK railway workers and all UK Vodafone staff with pensions. How ironic. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- 1.5 million Android phones pre-sold? What's up with the 16 October launch party?
- As we get closer and closer to the launch of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device the rumors are heating up. The latest report comes from The Motley Fool (it hasn't been confirmed by anyone else yet) states that T-Mobile has sold out of the first we all knew that...
- Tags: T-Mobile G1, Phone, T-Mobile, Sales Strategy, Blogging, Performance Management, Sales Force Management, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead
- Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops
- As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...
- Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Google ignores some reported security problems?
- Aviv Raff posted a public disclosure of a minor security risk that could be a major problem if used in conjunction with another type of problem. It's true that his discovery isn't really one that by itself should keep you up at night, but it's one that I'm surprised...
- Tags: Google Inc., Security, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
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