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- GeoEye Provides First Satellite Images of the Inauguration
- Erick Schonfeld submits: No, those aren’t giant ants swarming around the Washington Monument all the way up to the U.S. Capitol Building. This is the first satellite image of the inauguration taken at 11:19 AM EST Tuesday by the GeoEye-1 satellite. This is the same satellite...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Google and Yahoo: Will Revising the Deal Help Get Government Approval?
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Trying to push through their search advertising deal, Google GOOG and Yahoo YHOO have revised the terms of the deal to satisfy antitrust objections by the Department of Justice, reports the WSJ article behind the pay wall. The main concessions are putting 25 percent cap on...
- External links 2008-11-03
- Google Tweaks AdWords to Give More Ads a Shot at Prime Real Estate
- Erick Schonfeld submits: There is nothing like a downturn to force a company focus on the bottom line, even a company like Google GOOG whose bottom line is still growing at a healthy pace. Continuing its recent efforts to juice advertising revenues wherever it can, Google is changing...
- External links 2008-10-31
- The New Plan to Save Sun Microsystems (Warning: Puppets Involved)
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Never mind that Sun Microsystems just announced a $1.7 billion loss for its most recent quarter (mostly due to writedowns of pricey acquisitions like the $4.1 billion it spent on StorageTek). Never mind that its market cap is only $4 billion, despite having three times...
- External links 2008-10-31
- Invalidation of Business-Methods Patents Has Broad Implications
- Erick Schonfeld submits: If you are one of the recipients of the 1,330 business method patents issued in the U.S. last year, or the thousands more that have been issued rampantly and indiscriminately over the past decade, you are probably out of luck. The U.S. Court of Appeals in...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Motorola: Putting All Its Eggs in Android's Basket
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Motorola’s new co-CEO Sanjay Jha has a plan to save the beleaguered mobile handset maker: go all-in on Google’s Android mobile operating system. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal behind the pay wall: Sanjay Jha, who also became Motorola’s co-chief executive in...
- External links 2008-10-29
- Microsoft Chugs Along, But Online Is Its Achilles' Heel
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Microsoft announced earnings yesterday for the third quarter. (See conference call transcript.) Overall revenues for the quarter came in at $15 billion, growing a decent 9 percent annually. But its net profits of $4.37 billion rose only 1.9 percent. As usual, Microsoft’s stability came from its...
- External links 2008-10-24
- Akamai's $95M Bet on Better Ad Targeting
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Akamai AKAM wants to branch out of the content delivery business. Today it announced an all-cash, $95 million acquisition of Acerno, a subsidiary of database marketing firm i-Behavior. Acerno pools purchasing data from online retailers, who then share it among themselves in an aggregate, anonymous...
- External links 2008-10-21
- Apple-Microsoft Ad Wars Heat Up Again
- Erick Schonfeld submits: The advertising war between Apple AAPL and Microsoft MSFT continues. Apple’s latest TV spots mock Microsoft’s $350 million ad campaign for Windows Vista, suggesting that some of that money would be better spent fixing Vista. The ad is funny see above, but it...
- External links 2008-10-20
- Can Android Save Motorola?
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Motorola MOT, which is recruiting as many as 350 people to work on Android phones, is gearing up to make its first one:the Android Social Smart Phone. Last week, Android Guys spotted a job posting for the project, and now BusinessWeek has more...
- External links 2008-10-20
- EBay's Core Shrivels While Skype Shines
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Although eBay EBAY beat its downwardly-revised earnings numbers today, its earnings call see call transcript was filled with glum news for investors. Full earnings slides embedded below. After three flat quarters, revenues declined 3.6 percent from the second quarter to $2.2 billion. Free cash...
- External links 2008-10-16
- Three Years On, Buying MySpace Looks Like One of Murdoch's Smartest Bets
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Three years ago today, Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and its parent company Intermix for $580 million. That turned out to be money well spent. The last time we ran the numbers, we figured that MySpace alone is worth between $3 billion and $20 billion, depending on...
- External links 2008-10-15
- Online News Sites Have Recordbreaking Election Night
- Erick Schonfeld submits: On Election night everyone was glued to their screens. Not just their TV screens, but also their computer screens. Going to the major news sites, hitting refresh on the interactive electoral maps millions of times, and watching Obama and McCain give their final speeches...
- External links 2008-11-05
- Why AT&T Is Buying Wayport
- Erick Schonfeld submits: AT&T T loves WiFi. And it knows that you love WiFi too. So it just bought up WiFi hotspot operator Wayport for $275 million in cash. The acquisition will add about 3,000 WiFi hotspots to AT&T's network in the U.S., bringing the total to 20,000...
- External links 2008-11-06
- Google Revenues Threaten Mozilla's Nonprofit Status
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Today, the (for-now) non-profit Mozilla Foundation released its financial statements for 2007 embedded below. Revenues for the organization behind the open-source Firefox browser were up 12 percent to $75 million, with search-related royalties from Google accounting for 88 percent of the total, or $66 million. (Another...
- External links 2008-11-19
- For $15 Million, Gazprom Media Is Now the Proud Owner of Russia's YouTube
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Russia’s media conglomerate, Gazprom Media, is now the proud owner of video-sharing site RuTube. This deal has been in the works since at least June, 2007 and is believed to be in the $15 million range. RuTube is the YouTube of Russia. Or, rather,...
- External links 2008-11-19
- Yahoo's Yang: So Far, The $1.8-Billion Man
- Erick Schonfeld submits: by Erick Schonfeld
- External links 2008-11-18
- YouTube Will Be Obama's 'Fireside'
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Barack Obama is already being called the YouTube President because of the 1,800 YouTube videos that helped propel him to win the election and have been watched more than 110 million times. So it seems fitting that Obama will continue to use YouTube to...
- External links 2008-11-14
- Microsoft Online Store May Drive Another Nail in Retail Coffin
- Erick Schonfeld submits: The days of buying packaged software loaded onto CDs are numbered. Thursday, Microsoft quietly drove another nail into the coffin of packaged software by launching the Microsoft Store on the Web. After testing the software download store in Europe and Korea, Microsoft opened up its...
- External links 2008-11-14
- Online Video Advertising: From Analog Dollars to Digital Pennies
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Here is the stark reality of online video: Nobody is making much money and the enthusiastic projections for online video advertising going from $500 million in 2008 to more than $5 billion in five years will undoubtedly be pared back in the coming weeks as analysts...
- External links 2008-11-13
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