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- WSJ: NBC Universal valued at $30 billion; Stage set for Comcast-GE deal this week?
- A Wall Street Journal report notes that Comcast and GE have come to an agreement on how to determine the value of NBC Universal by Sam Diaz
- Tags: NBC Universal Inc., Wall Street Journal, General Electric Co., Comcast Corp., Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster
- The Galleon Group insider trading scandal continues to net some big technology fish. And the Wall Street Journal is reporting that former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz leaked confidential information to Galleon. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CEO, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden
- Hat tip to Danny Sullivan for pointing out the above panel at Web 2.0 Summit, which featured Robert Thomson, Wall Street Journal chief, and Marrissa Mayer head of search products at Google, plus Martin Nisenholtz, The New York Times Company, and Eric Hippeau from the Huffington Post, moderated by...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Journalist, Thomson Corp., Internet, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- WSJ Cloud Computing Quiz
- William M. Bulkeley, of the Wall Street Journal, just published an interesting quiz "How Well Do You Know… the Cloud?". It apears that the good Mr. Bulkeley has a good grasp of cloud computing in its current stage of evolution. Although it appears that this article is not based upon...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- WSJ challenges NFL's ridiculous policy by live-blogging game
- I have to admit that I don't normally click on the pages of the Wall Street Journal for my sports news so I'm certainly not logging into the Journal's site for play-by-play commentary during a live NFL game on Sunday. But a recent live-blog entry on the Journal's Daily Fix...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, NFL, Blog, Blogging, Games, Internet, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- WSJ on the Kindle, meet price elasticity
- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has a bevy of pay-for-content experiments planned, but he should be ready to meet some pushback. One grand experiment, the Wall Street Journal's price increase on the Kindle, has turned this customer off. The Wall Street Journal subscription on the Kindle jumped...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- WSJ: Expect Net Neutrality rules at FCC speech next week
- New government rules that support Network Neutrality, specifically rules that prevent Internet service providers from selectively blocking sites from their networks, are expected to be unveiled in Washington on Monday, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. During a speech on Monday, FCC chairman Julius...
- Tags: FCC, Wall Street Journal, Network, Net Neutrality, Rule, Carrier, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- WSJ: YouTube and movie studios in talks over streaming rentals
- Google-owned YouTube is in discussions with major motion picture studios, including LionsGate Entertainment, Sony and Warner Bros., to allow consumers to rent and stream movies for a fee, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal that cites unnamed sources. The WSJ report stressed that negotiations...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, VoD, Movie, YouTube Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Need a quick translation? Google puede ayudar
- Technology is supposed to simplify business, right? Today, Google released a new feature within Google Docs that could help break down language barriers in a global economy. The feature allows you to take the text within a document and translate it into your choice of 42 different languages. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Google Docs, Apple Inc., Translation Service, Productivity, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- WSJ wrongly blames AT&T for Google Voice iPhone app rejection
- A guest opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this week is getting some attention. In a nutshell, it alleges that AT&T was behind the death of a Google Voice app for the iPhone and suggests that, in a world where data is bigger than voice, that we need a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Voice, AT&T Corp., Exclusivity, App, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?
- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch said that the company will begin charging for its news sites. The details were a bit vague, but Murdoch said News Corp.'s big experiment kicks off in 2010. The larger question is whether this move is much ado about little revenue. We'll...
- Tags: Revenue, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Quality Journalism, Weinkes, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- WSJ: Yahoo board to meet, discuss Microsoft deal
- Yahoo's board of directors will meet today for an update about a deal with Microsoft - but don't expect a deal to be announced after this meeting. Some of the board members have reservations about the deal, including whether it will get past regulators. According to a...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- WSJ: Justice Dept. "reviewing" large telecoms
- The U.S. Department of Justice wants to know if the large telecoms, notably AT&T and Verizon, have abused their market power and has launched "an initial review" for a more in-depth look, according to a Wall Street Journal report posted this afternoon. The Journal's unnamed sources say that this is...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, AT&T Corp., U.S. Department Of Justice, Journal, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Corporate Law, Telecommunications, Networking, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- The Wall Street Journal shows the limits of its HDTV knowledge
- I can't really argue with some aspects of a new Wall St Journal story titled "Lower Price Tag for Plasma TVs Comes at Price, but if you already have some knowledge about HDTVs, don't expect much illumination from the article. There are several minor gaffes and omissions...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Plasma, Knowledge, HDTV, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- WSJ: Dell working on mobile Internet device
- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell is working on a mobile Internet device that would run on Google's Android operating system and compete with Apple's iPod Touch, which is basically an iPhone without the phone service. It's tough to say whether this device will ever...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Dell Computer Corp., Mobile, Music Player, Internet Device, Mobile Internet Device, Journal Story, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Media Players, Digital Music, Wireless And Mobility, Digital Media, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Timing fishy on WSJ's Jobs story and Apple's Monday morning news
- You've got to really hand it to Apple and the Wall Street Journal - they came in out of nowhere and threw Wall Street for a loop that left investors and analysts looking a bit bedazzled, as if they didn't know what had him them. Backtrack to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street, Apple Inc., Story, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Vendors being pushed into cloud, kicking and screaming?
- Lately, if you have listened to the pronouncements of vendors large and small, they all are enthusiastically embracing cloud computing as the next wave of software and service delivery. However, the Wall Street Journal's Ben Worthen and Justin Scheck have a different take on all this happy...
- Tags: Software, Wall Street Journal, Tools & Techniques, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- WSJ: Steve Jobs received liver transplant
- According to the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs has received a liver transplant during his medical leave of absence and is expected to return to work at the end of June. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Transplant, Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- WSJ: Jobs had liver transplant two months ago
- A new Wall Street Journal report has just surfaced on the paper's website stating that Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a liver transplant in Tennessee "about two months ago." He has been on leave since January for "an undisclosed medical condition" and been rumored to return soon. ...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- WSJ: Steve Jobs ready to return to Apple helm
- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs is on track to return to the company after a six-month medical leave of absence, citing a person who had seen him in recent weeks. The WSJ source says that Jobs will return to Apple...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Apple Inc., Workforce Management, Human Resources, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
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