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- Yahoo's Yang Gives His 'Don't Crush Our Stock We're OK' Address
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on the company’s corporate blog gave investorsâ€"that’s who he’s really speaking toâ€"a “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger†missive. Yang had to say something given he’s in for an ugly Monday following Microsoft’s walkaway over the weekend. However, it’s highly doubtful that...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- RIMââ¬â¢s Balsillie: 'Not Religious' About Form Factors; B2B the Companyââ¬â¢s Core
- The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire all resources...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Microsoft Still Shopping; Approached Facebook
- Microsoft, just a few days removed from walking away from its Yahoo bid, is reportedly sniffing around Facebook. According to Kara Swisher, Microsoft’s bankers contacted Facebook to see if Mark Zuckerberg and company would be interested in selling the company. The Wall Street Journal also reported the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- More on RIMââ¬â¢s Moat: Launches BlackBerry Bold; App Developer Fund
- Business people can be hip too. That appears to be the message from Research in Motion and its motives behind its new BlackBerry Bold smartphone. There’s definitely a hint of some iPhone envy here, but the device isn’t a direct competitor. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Powerset's Search: Does It Deliver?
- Powerset has rolled out its semantic search engine and has managed to get a ton of attention. The larger question for me: Does it deliver? And where does Powerset make the most sense? Powerset on Monday introduced its natural language search for Wikipedia content Techmeme. This effort is really a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Twitter Funded: Will It Restore Stability?
- Twitter has received $15 million in venture funding, according to Om Malik. Now the fun really begins: Twitter needs to change its architecture on the fly. Om reports that the latest round means that Twitter has raised about $20 million in total VC backing. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Looking For Successors To Google and Microsoft
- Earlier this week at one of Mary Jo Foley’s talk before the New York Software Industry Association one of the folks in the audience posed a great question. The gist: The Google vs. Microsoft online advertising war resembles Sears vs. Montgomery Ward years ago. The punch line: While Sears and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Google's Response to Viacom: Don't Hamper the Internet
- Google has filed its response to Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit over copyright infringement. The gist: Viacom’s lawsuit hampers the Internet and challenges the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Google’s response Techmemeâ€"you’re forgiven if you are shocked that Viacom and Google haven’t settled yetâ€"denies a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Amazon Readies Pay-Per-View Movie Service
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that the company will launch a pay-per-view movie service shortly. According to reports out of D6â€"Barron’s Eric Savitz has the most complete account along with Silicon Alley Insiderâ€"Bezos said he’s serious about music and video downloads. He should be considering the distribution...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Google Aims to Extend the Browser -- Again
- Google Gears launched a year ago and the search giant is ditching its moniker to reinforce that Gears is an open source project. So far so good, MySpace has used Gears to launch search and sort mail messages. The overall theme: Google is trying to extend the browser. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Will Google and Amazon Triumph Over All?
- Will Amazon and Google be the two giants of the Internet? Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. In a research report previewed to Reuters, “U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning,†Lindsay concludes that Google and Amazon will be the top dogs on the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Land Rush On For .Me Domain Names
- The land rush for the .Me domain is underway and the usual domain name shenanigans are hereâ€"especially with speculation that Apple is hoarding these digital monikers to rebrand its .Mac service. This speculation perked up earlier this month. Jason O’Grady tried to land a few Apple.me-ish domains...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Memo to CIOs: What You Need to Know About the iPhone
- Apple launched a blitzkrieg of iPhone moves: You got a 3G iPhone, a cloud computing and storage service and enterprise support. But there are also a few productivity killers in there that would make an IT exec step back. What do you do? To...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Built To Be Bought: Internet Companies That 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 â€" 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...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Twitter: Free Now, Free Forever?
- Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shot down the concept of a paid model for the messaging service and reiterated that the company will get its infrastructure right. In an interview with Jennifer Leggio, our new addition to ZDNet, Stone dismissed the suggestion that Twitter use a pay model...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Firefox Download Challenge Goes Boom
- The world record download attempt for Firefox 3 is off to a rough start. Shortly after 1 p.m. EDT, 10 a.m. PDT (Mozilla’s official launch time) I went to spreadfirefox.com and got the following: I’m sure Mozilla will fix this...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- E-Commerce Forecasts Are All Over the Map
- The fourth quarter for e-commerce will be very telling. Will online sales continue to grow even if the consumer is strapped? Or will e-commerce increasingly look like the rest of the retail sector? To wit: Amazon’s fourth quarter outlook, which had a range so...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Alcatel-Lucent's Big Layoffs: Does It Get Web 2.0?
- Alcatel-Lucent on Friday unveiled its latest restructuring plan complete with layoffs and a rip off of Cisco’s spiel about Web 2.0 technologies. The news out of Alcatel-Lucent was boilerplate stuff these daysâ€"it will be news when a company actually hires someone. Alcatel-Lucent sees the market for telecom...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Time Warner to Spin Off AOL as Standalone Public Company
- Larry Dignan ZDNet submits: AOL will be an independent publicly traded company again as Time Warner TWX solidified plans to spin off the ailing unit, which some analysts estimate to be worth about $5 billion. In a statement Thursday, Time Warner put more meat on its...
- External links 2009-05-28
- Microsoft Bing: Will It Boost Cashback?
- Larry Dignan ZDNet submits: One of Microsoft’s MSFT best innovations has been its search Cashback program, which is a rewards system for users of the software giant’s search. Bing, which launched a few days early, seems to integrate Cashback everywhere–especially with anything related to shopping. by Larry Dignan
- External links 2009-06-01
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