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erick schonfeld

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The Media Bundle Is Dead, Long Live the News Aggregators
Erick Schonfeld submits: Here we go again. The newspaper industry is blaming online news aggregators for its dwindling profits and inability to adapt to a world of links and truly-free flowing information. (They like it when information flows freely into their pages, but not so much when...
Tags: Media, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-08-16
Tim Armstrong Prepares AOL for a Fragmenting Web
Erick Schonfeld submits: The days of the Web portal are long gone. Everyone knows this, especially the people who run the largest destination sites on the Web. AOL’s newest CEO, Tim Armstrong, acknowledges this fact. “We think the Web will fragment in the future,” he tells me....
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Time Warner Inc.
External links 2009-07-20
Google: A Cheat Sheet for Q2 Earnings
Erick Schonfeld submits: Google GOOG is scheduled to announce second quarter earnings on Thursday afternoon, and Citi analyst Mark Mahaney just sent out the handy cheat sheet above showing consensus estimates, as well as his own. The Street is looking for $4.05 billion in net revenues, Mahaney is predicting...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc.
External links 2009-07-15
Palm Pre Sales Appear to Stabilize at Ho Hum Levels
Erick Schonfeld submits: Despite the early fanfare and limited inventory at launch, Sprint S doesn’t seem to be hitting it out of the park with the new Palm Pre. Earlier this month we reported on some channel checks by JNK Securities analyst Mike Ehrlich, who called 50...
Tags: Gadgets, Erick Schonfeld, Palm Inc.
External links 2009-07-14
Google Peels Off the Beta Label from More of Its Apps
Erick Schonfeld submits: The beta days are over at Google GOOG, at least for some of its most popular applications. As we predicted two months ago, Google is finally taking the beta label off of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Gtalk today. And it is...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc.
External links 2009-07-07
iPhone App Prices Fluctuate as Developers Adjust to OS 3.0
Erick Schonfeld submits: Ever since OS. 3.0, the latest operating system for the iPhone, launched on June 17, prices among the top 100 apps in the iTunes App Store have been fluctuating wildly as developers push out apps taking advantage of all the new features in the...
Tags: Gadgets, Erick Schonfeld, Apple Inc.
External links 2009-07-02
Google?s Africa Strategy: Search and Trade Via SMS
Erick Schonfeld submits: Not only does Google GOOG want to organize all the world’s information, it also wants to make all that information available to everyone in the world. For the majority of the world’s population, that means making it available on a cell phone, and not...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc.
External links 2009-06-29
Study Suggests People Prefer Bing?s Design to Google?s, But Won't Switch
Erick Schonfeld submits: Brand loyalty is a powerful thing, especially when it comes to technology. Consider the battle brewing now between Google GOOG and Microsoft’s MSFT new search engine, Bing. Even if Bing proves to be just as good as Google, it might not matter because...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-06-26
Wikinvest Hopes Redesign Will Attract the Yahoo Finance Crowd
Erick Schonfeld submits: Finance sites like Yahoo Finance and Google Finance haven’t changed much in the past ten years. The fonts are different. Maybe there’s some more real-time quotes and fancier, interactive charts. But at their core they all follow pretty much the same formula: dump as...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-06-25
Google's Mobile AdSense Enters Public Beta
Erick Schonfeld submits: Google GOOG is moving into the mobile ad market with AdSesne for mobile apps. Over the past few months, Google has been testing both text and graphical ads with ten mobile app developers, including Shazam and Urbanspoon. Today it is opening the private beta...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc.
External links 2009-06-24
Telsa Gets $465 Million from Government Program
Erick Schonfeld submits: In an announcement Tuesday at Ford’s research center in Dearborn, Michigan, the U.S. Secretary of Energy will be giving details about the first loans to come out of the government’s $25 billion program to help auto manufacturers. Ford got a $5.9 billion loan, but...
Tags: Transport, Erick Schonfeld, Ford Motor Co.
External links 2009-06-23
Google Makes Progress with Image Recognition, But Not There Yet
Erick Schonfeld submits: Image recognition is still one of those things that humans find easy to do but computers keep stumbling over. Some Google GOOG researchers published a paper describing progress they are making in teaching computers how to identify famous landmarks, which may eventually be...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc.
External links 2009-06-22
Yahoo?s Revenues Drop 13% in Second Quarter, 5% of Employees to Lose Jobs
Erick Schonfeld submits: Yhoo Q209 Earnings Presentation Final Yahoo just released earnings for the second quarter. Total revenues dropped 13 percent to $1.5 billion. After paying partner sites traffic acquisition costs (TAC), it’s take-home revenue was $1.1 billion. Operating income fell 17 percent to $101 million, and...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-07-21
New York Times: Online Ad Revenues Continue to Plunge
Erick Schonfeld submits: As if the New York Times NYT doesn’t have enough to worry about, with total advertising revenues down 32 percent in the second quarter, its online business is deteriorating as well. In its earnings announcement Thursday morning, the company breaks out Internet advertising revenues...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, New York Times Co.
External links 2009-07-23
Microsoft Joins with Nokia to Bring Office to More Smartphones
Erick Schonfeld submits: Microsoft MSFT and Nokia NOK announced a broad ranging alliance Wednesday morning which will bring Microsoft Office and other productivity software to a Nokia phones. The agreement marks “the first time Microsoft will make Office for non windows mobile phones,” says Microsoft Business Division...
Tags: Software, Erick Schonfeld, Microsoft Corp., Nokia Corp.
External links 2009-08-12
Microsoft Unloads Razorfish on the French
Erick Schonfeld submits: More than two years after buying advertising network aQuantive for $6 billion, Microsoft MSFT finally unloaded the digital advertising agency that came with that deal. It sold Razorfish to French advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe for $530 million in a combination stock-and-cash transaction. ...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-08-10
When Amazon Bought Zappos, Clothes.com Also Came in the Box
Erick Schonfeld submits: When Amazon AMZN paid $928 million for Zappos in July, it got a little something extra in the box: the Clothes.com domain. It turns out that Zappos bought the domain last year from Idealab for $4.9 million Bill Grossx strikes again. by Erick...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Amazon.com Inc.
External links 2009-08-09
Android and iPhone: App Prices Pretty Much the Same
Erick Schonfeld submits: Do the prices people are willing to pay for a phone app depend on the device or the type of app? A comparison of July prices in the iPhone App Store and the Android Market by app analytics firm Distimo found that across broad...
Tags: Software, Erick Schonfeld, Apple Inc., Google Inc.
External links 2009-08-06
Yahoo's Flickr Turns Up the Awesome on Image Search
Erick Schonfeld submits: Searching for photos on the Web takes way too much time. There are simply too many photos to sort through and not enough good ones. Image search is a major priority for all the big search engines (Google GOOG, Yahoo YHOO, and Bing), and...
Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-08-05
Why Eric Schmidt Had to Go
Erick Schonfeld submits: What happens when the enemy of your enemy is no longer your friend? You cast him out, as Steve Jobs seems to have done to Google GOOG CEO Eric Schmidt, who Monday resigned his seat from Apple’s AAPL board. An alliance which began with a mutual...
Tags: Software, Erick Schonfeld, Apple Inc., Google Inc.
External links 2009-08-03
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