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Doing business in repressive regimes: Big Internet companies agree to some rules

Doing business in repressive regimes: Big Internet companies agree to some rulesWe'll see how effective they are......when regimes start threatening companies that follow them.RE: Doing business in repressive regimes: Big Internet companies agree to some rulesThe best solution is for the companies to put a LOT of money behind electing...

Tags: repressive regime, Big Internet company, Doing Business, Internet company

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

Tech giants may face dollar daze

Technology bellwethers with a big chunk of their businesses overseas have benefited from a weak dollar compared to other currencies, but the gravy train may be coming to a stop. A weak dollar has helped technology giants such as Google, Amazon, eBay, IBM, HP and others even...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Dollar, Currency, Internet Company, IBM Corp., Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Why Internet companies are attractive takeover targets: They can't manage

Why Internet companies are attractive takeover targets: They can't manageThat's funny........and by that I mean amusing. Carl Ichan represents the most savage, barbaric and antiquated that old school management has to offer. This literally boils down to 21st Century tech business preparing to meet mid-20th Century business practices.Unless...

Tags: takeover target, Carl Ichan, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Why Internet companies are attractive takeover targets: They can't manage

Are Internet companies so inefficient and clueless about management that have to be acquired? Lost in the commentary about Bernstein's "U.S. Internet -- The End of the Beginning" report, which concluded that Amazon and Google would be the dominant Internet duopoly, are the reasons why today's leading...

Tags: Internet Company, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Ballmer's swan song

Take 1 flailing Internet company, add a 2nd flailing Internet company, and what do you get? A bigger flailing Internet company. Accentuate the positive The proposal isn't all bad. : It is an OK deal for Yahoo shareholders. Yahoo was trading above $30...

Tags: Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Internet Company, Jerry, Certainty, Internet, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Photos: Yahoo hosts an open house

Internet giant gives a tour of its new San Francisco office, where visitors can spin a digital globe or check out a dynamic display of digital user info.

Tags: Internet company, display, San Francisco, photograph, Yahoo! Inc., Internet

Image galleries 2007-04-30

As House considers data retention, Internet companies have another plan

Hours before the opening of a House hearing on whether to require ISPs to retain user data, a coalition of top Internet companies - including AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft but not Google - proposed developing a technological fix to the problem of child pornography, News.com's Declan McCullaugh reports. (Google apparently...

Tags: child pornography

Blog posts 2006-06-27

Smith to introduce Global Online Freedom Act

The Times reports: The subcommittee's chairman, Representative Christopher H. Smith, plans to introduce legislation by week's end that would restrict an Internet company's ability to censor or filter basic political or religious terms — even if that puts the company at odds with local laws in the...

Tags: Global Online Freedom Act, Internet company

Blog posts 2006-02-15

Major player wants to partner with Microsoft to take Google down a peg

Microsoft Program Manager Ian McAllister wrote about an intriguing meeting he attended "with some senior players at another Tier 1 internet company". The other company's representatives offered to "work together" with Microsoft, in order to prevent Google from dominating the Search and/or advertising business. Here's the whole post: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Internet company

Blog posts 2005-12-21

The future of Internet markets

Kevin Werbach wrote a very thoughtful post on Web 2.0 market trends for the big Internet companies. He thinks we're potentially entering into an era of "competing integrated fiefdoms," much like the online services of the early 90's - AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, Apple's eWorld. In other words, the big Internet...

Tags: Web, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Additional Resources

Is the Crunchpad an education game-changer?

The San Francisco Business Times ran a feature Friday on Michael Arrington, the brains behind TechCrunch. While not the most popular guy in the blogosphere, Arrington is well-respected in many business circles. As a result, when he announced that he was creating a new hardware company to crank...

Tags: E-reader, Education, Linux, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?

Michael Jackson, of course, isn't telling us much of anything anymore. However, when news of his death brought Internet news sites to a crawl and hurt traffic Internet-wide, one has to worry about the effects of serious traffic spikes on cloud-based, mission-critical applications. A fire at...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Michael Jackson, Internet, Cloud Computing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Green IT tips for small businesses: Analysys moves data center offsite for big power savings

Many of us who write about green technology issues often get dinged for focusing just on case studies that involve BIG companies. So, here's some information about a much more modestly sized company in Baltimore that was able to get greener AND save a bunch of money on its power...

Tags: Analysys, Data Center, Green IT, Small Business, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-03

WebCopier 4.2.5 (Mac)

Have you ever wanted to have a copy of your favorite Web sites or browse sites even when your computer isn't connected to the Internet? If the answer is Yes, then try WebCopier--the program that downloads Web sites to your computer, and allows you to view and print them at...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Web Site, MaximumSoft, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-03

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapersPerhaps a kindle like device?Get rid of paper, and sell a yearly subscription with a Kindle like reader. The yearly subscription would help offset the hardware costs.Get rid of the paper, or charge extra for it like cellular companies do for optionsTo...

Tags: news industry

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Microsoft's Gazelle browser: A layperson's explanation

Microsoft's Gazelle browser: A layperson's explanationGoogle Chrome already has done this.http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/med_00.htmlRE: Microsoft's Gazelle browser: A layperson's explanationI think all the talk about Kernel, Principal and operating system just confused everybody. After watching the video a while ago it was obvious that these terms are being used as an analogy....

Tags: Web browsers, Gazelle, Web browser, Gazelle browser, layperson, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

PC OEMs: Please Cut the Crap!

Buying a new PC from one of the Tier 1 OEMs can often be a frustrating exercise in crapware removal. My Tuesday morning started like this. Phone rings. 9AM. Hey Jason, uh, it's Christine. Javi just booted up the laptop...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Costco, PC, OEM, Intuit QuickBooks, Laptop Computer, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Why Windows 7 should be free

Why Windows 7 should be freeAm I the only one who had zero problems with Vista?This issue has been debated thoroughly across zdnet, so I have no desire to rehash it. But I am still not convinced that Vista's problems are systemic...and I think they are more a PR issue....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Overstock dumps affiliates, rants about tax-happy states

Overstock is joining Amazon and Blue Nile in the parade of e-commerce companies dumping affiliates in states that aim to slap a tax on Internet referrals. On Wednesday, Overstock said that it will drop its affiliate advertisers in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island---four states looking...

Tags: Overstock.com Inc., Amazon.com Inc., E-business, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Internet, Web Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Cisco Live! - CEO Chambers on Collaboration Business Value

The above video clips from my handheld Flip are from John Chambers Cisco Live! keynote address today and are specifically two edits about Cisco's strategic perspective on collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. In the second edit Chambers talks about Cisco's business architectural re-engineering...

Tags: Web, Collaboration, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-30