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- Newsmakers: Be careful what you wish for
- Without Google they get no trafficIt does not take a rocket scientist to know that without Google, most of this news sites would probably have little to now traffic at all.So how is Google stealing from them? Since when is sending customers to your door a bad thing?Without the...
- Tags: Web site development, Operational accounting, Google Inc., Google News
- Discussion threads 2009-10-11
- Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale
- eBay's $2 billion sale of Skype to a group of investors could be complicated by a lawsuit filed by a company owned by Skype's founders. According to a Wall Street Journal report, a company named Joltid, which is owned by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit in...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Joltid, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- First-ever arrest of domain-name thief involves Clippers' Madsen
- In the first-ever U.S. arrest of a domain-name thief, New Jersey state police have arrested a man suspected of stealing the domain name P2P.com. In an unusual celebrity twist, Donald Gonclave then sold the domain name to L.A. Clippers forward Mark Madsen on eBay for $110,000,...
- Tags: GoDaddy, Domain Name, Albert Angel, Domain Names, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Is $100 million enough to help Microsoft gain search share?
- Is $100 million enough to help Microsoft gain search share?Could it? Yes. Will it? No.Why do I think that? Gut feeling. Given the information provided that's about all we have to go with.Rebranded is worthless don't they get that by now?How many times do they have to re brand MSN,...
- Tags: Marketing research, IT User, MS-search, Microsoft Corp., marketing, MSN
- Discussion threads 2009-04-02
- Palm investor: Pre will trump iPhone
- Palm investor: Pre will trump iPhoneToo much coolaid?This thing has ZERO buzz on the street among the general population. You go into any mall... it's iPhone, Storm, or something by Nokia.I don't see how this is going to be a "must have". And in a recession, the only way to...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Amazon Music Store, McNamee, Palm Inc., Apple iPhone, Pre, Sprint Communications
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- OIN: Microsoft lawsuit won't slow Linux's lead in mobile market
- OIN: Microsoft lawsuit won't slow Linux's lead in mobile marketI think Keith Bergelt's talking out of his butt.Sounds like an opportunist trying to discredit the bridges built (albeit not alot of them, but still there) by Microsoft and some open source companiesMy guess is that he fears theses aliences for...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, mobile, Linux, Microsoft Corp., stock
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Microsoft search boss: 'Silk Road' will lead to greater market share
- Microsoft search boss: 'Silk Road' will lead to greater market shareNo ...because their minds are set on market share first.^0^Relevance, relevance, relevance...Give me relevance - that what I want to find, I do find.Silk Road...How Originalhttp://www.joymax.com/silkroad/Try to come up with something someone else hasn't used for a name.Slippery Slope fits...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Slippery Slope, Aero, Microsoft Corp., Silk Road, Aero graphic, Microsoft Windows Vista, graphics
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Yahoo: Our poison pill isn't 'nuts'; Icahn guessing at plan costs
- Yahoo in an SEC filing fired its latest volley at billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn and defended its employee compensation plan. The company, embroiled in a proxy war with Icahn, outlined an FAQ that it sent employees. The key excerpts: Mr. Icahn says this Plan costs...
- Tags: Benefits, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, Human Resources, Investment, Larry Dignan, Plan, Poison Pill, Software, Vertical Industries, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.
- The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...
- Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- BEA: Will anyone else step up to the buyout plate?
- As expected Oracle yanked its $6.7 billion offer for BEA Systems. The big question is where BEA goes from here. The Oracle-BEA saga has been plagued with back and forth letters in recent days. Oracle offered $17 a share for BEA. BEA said it wants $21. Oracle...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Google CEO sends mixed messages to investors, again
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt addressed the Wall Street investment analyst community last month for the Google quarterly earnings reporting ritual; He also addressed the companys own investors today for the Google annual shareholder meeting ritual .What a difference three weeks makes? Or, more aptly, which Google story is the real...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., advertisement, core business, shareholder
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Click here to access our broken Web site, press one to be ignored
- Click here to access our broken Web site, press one to be ignoredLet me tell you about Verizon DSLI've had Verizon DSL for years. My new bride has had an old gte account before it was acquired by Verizon several years ago. We purchased a new house and therfore signed...
- Tags: E-mail, Web site development, Team management, Broadband Internet, Backups, Cell company, Corporate Service, BellSouth Corp., Acomdata, enclosure, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Vonage on the skids: What should customers do?
- Vonage on the skids: What should customers do?Bail now!Only a fool stays on a sinking ship.I use VonageNo plans to bail here. Why would I choose to pay $10 for phone service from my Cable provider or $20 more for phone service with my Telco with no long distance calling...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Investment, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Vonage Holdings Corp., telecommunications company, stock
- Discussion threads 2007-03-26
- Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?
- As of the time that I started writing this blog post,its the top story on Techmeme right now. If youre reading this post to get some other insight into Jason Calacanis the man or AOL the company now that Calacanis (founder of Weblogs, Inc. which was eventually acquired by AOL)...
- Tags: General, Calacanis
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious money
- Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious moneyXP may be my last stopI think that XP is as fat as I care to get on a pc, and this new EULA sort of puts the last rail down for me.If I buy a new computer with Vista on it, so be...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), monoculture, hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MSVista, Now Microsoft
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Investor outlines SCO-Microsoft link
- Investor outlines SCO-Microsoft linkFunny UnclesApparently Larry Goldfarb is another otherwise-savvy player who hasn't learned from others' experiences. It's amazing how many take the bait when Microsoft tells them it wants to be "special friends."Just when you thought...This case couldn't have got much more bizarre, it does. I guess now that...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., SCO Group Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-10-09
- SGI's Unix variant fading into history
- SGI's Unix variant fading into historyOSX is not UNIXOSX is not UNIX. It is not "the most widely used Unix." It is not Unix. Period.It is, like Linux, a Unix-like system. To be Unix, it must be certified as Unix by the Open Group. ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., SGI Unix, OSX, Darwin, BSD Unix, Unix, Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- Google to content owners: you will be compensated, maybe
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has recently been touting what he says is Google’s desire to compensate content owners, as I present in “Google royalty-free content: fair use, or foul play?”Google CEO Eric Schmidt extolled the virtues of “financial sharing” in content partnerships during the company’s Q2 investor conference call last...
- Tags: Google Inc., P10
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Google royalty-free content: fair use, or foul play?
- “Google aims to obtain, control and own more content, cost-free to Google, for inclusion in its core search product via a no-cost content acquisition strategy through various Google Verticals,” I postulated in “Google Verticals vs. Google.com: What is Google's end-game?”Google CEO Eric Schmidt extolled the virtues of “financial sharing” in...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-05
- Direct Revenue plotted to hijack your computer
- Fascinating article here in BusinessWeek Online with never before published details about Direct Revenue's inner workings and the people involved. There are a lot of juicy tidbits, including how the Dark Arts department crafted software "torpedoes" to kill competitors', other adware vendors, software. Then CEO Joshua Abrams is quoted as...
- Tags: Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
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