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- Would You Buy a Web Tablet?
- Michael Arrington, famed founder of the TechCrunch blog, wanted something he couldn't buy (horrors!), so he decided to build it himself. The result: The CrunchPad, a cheap, screen-only tablet PC designed expressly for "Internet consumption." Conceived last July, the device is currently still in the prototype stages,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- This Week, All Eyes on Google
- Michael Arrington submits: Google GOOG, whose stock is down 45% this year, announces third quarter financial results tomorrow, and Silicon Valley will be watching. Analysts expect revenues of a little over $4 billion and EPS of $4.79 - and most have price targets for the stock, which closed yesterday...
- External links 2008-10-15
- Microsoft Speaks, Yahoo Jumps (or at Least Its Stock Price Does)
- Michael Arrington submits: An off the cuff remark by Microsoft MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer this morning set Yahoo’s stock soaring more than 15% to $13.73, adding well over $3 billion in market cap to the struggling company. by Michael Arrington
- External links 2008-10-16
- Google Trying to Get Advertisers to Lobby D.C. in Favor of Yahoo Deal
- Michael Arrington submits: A reader, Darrin from ReverseMortgageGuides, who says he spends about $100,000/month on Google adwords received a voicemail from a Cleary Gottlieb lawyer named Donald Burke. Burke says he’s representing Google in the Yahoo advertising deal. The message, linked below (with part of the phone number toned...
- External links 2008-10-17
- Jerry Yang to Yahooers: One in Ten of You Is Gone
- Michael Arrington submits: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent the email below to all Yahoo’ers at 2:20 pm PST Tuesday, after earnings were announced. Besides being all lowercase, as usual, he lets everyone know that the company will be letting 10% of employees go to help save $400 million in...
- External links 2008-10-22
- AOL Begins Shutdown of Three Services
- Michael Arrington submits: In July we wrote about AOL’s plans to shutter a number of services based on an internal email from EVP Products and Marketing Kevin Conroy. Next week, AOL says, they’ll begin to communicate the news to consumers around the shutdown of three of those properties...
- External links 2008-10-25
- Microsoft: Office to Embrace the Web; One Less Profit Center?
- Michael Arrington submits: Microsoft MSFT made a major announcement today - they will be offering “lightweight” versions of Office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - through the browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari will be supported. Users will be able to read and edit documents from the...
- External links 2008-10-28
- Microsoft Launches BizSpeak to Court Startups
- Michael Arrington submits: Microsoft MSFT is launching a new program called BizSpark to encourage startups to build on their stack Wednesday morning. Virtually everything a startup needs to build a web service (many of the tools and software compete with open source alternatives, such as MySQL) is being...
- External links 2008-11-05
- Yahoo: Why Yang Must Go
- Michael Arrington submits: Six months ago Jerry Yang took the stage at the D Conference to talk about the state of his business. His painted a picture of a Yahoo that was spinning in circles with no clear future. Fast forward six months and nothing has changed. by Michael...
- External links 2008-11-06
- MySpace MyAds: Booming Fast
- Michael Arrington submits: MySpace’s self service display ad product, called MyAds, officially launched on October 12, less than a month ago. Advertisers can bypass the normal sales routine, use a Flash tool to create their own display ads, and run them on a cost-per-click basis. The minimum CPC (cost...
- External links 2008-11-06
- HomeAway's Giant Round Makes eBay Look Smart
- Michael Arrington submits: Austin, Texas based HomeAway, a vacation home rental service, has raised a $250 million round of financing. This comes on top of $209 million previously raised over two rounds. The new financing was led by Technology Crossover Ventures, with existing investors IVP and Redpoint Ventures participating...
- External links 2008-11-11
- Apple's Search Engine: Truth or Rumor?
- Michael Arrington submits: We’ve received multiple if thin reports that Apple AAPL is working on a search engine of some sort. At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple’s Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard and iPhone/iPod...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Even Google Suffers in 'The Worst Economic Environment in Our Collective Lifetimes'
- Michael Arrington submits: Google’s stock price closed yesterday at $291, the first time it has dropped below $300 since 2005. It’s 44% off of its 52-week high of $725. Most analysts think it's cheap and getting cheaper -- the average price target is still over $500. Former analyst Henry...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Finally the Inevitable: Yahoo's Jerry Yang Steps Down
- Michael Arrington submits: Expect Yahoo’s share price to jump tomorrow - Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO of the company, a job that he took on an interim basis in June 2007. Yang will return to his former role as Chief Yahoo, and will remain on the...
- External links 2008-11-17
- SearchWiki: Why Did Google Mess With Its Search?
- Michael Arrington submits: Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing. But to mess with the real Google search is serious stuff. Why did they do it? Google’s overall search share has grown substantially this year and all other years since it went live. Their share of search...
- External links 2008-11-21
- Google: Fixing What Wasn't Broken
- Michael Arrington submits: Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing. But to mess with the real Google search is serious stuff. Why did they do it? Google’s overall search share has grown substantially this year and all other years since it went live. Their share of search...
- External links 2008-11-21
- Was eBay's BillMeLater Acquisition A Huge Blunder?
- Michael Arrington submits: When eBay EBAY paid $945 million for BillMeLater in October, we blinked. The business assigns credit at the point of sale to ecommerce customers who can’t use credit cards because they don’t have them, have maxed out credit limits, or choose not to. It charges fees...
- External links 2008-11-25
- U.K. Times Gets It Wrong - No Planned Microsoft / Yahoo Deal
- Michael Arrington submits: We were doubtful last night when the story first broke. There were just too many oddities to The Times’ tale about a complicated Yahoo/Microsoft search arrangement that would guarantee billions to Yahoo in exchange for a ten year search deal. We’ve checked with our sources -...
- External links 2008-12-01
- Facebook, Google and MySpace Compete for More Friends
- Michael Arrington submits: Monday’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services from MySpace Data Availability and Google Friend Connect....
- External links 2008-12-01
- Murdoch Biographer Disses MySpace
- Michael Arrington submits: If you thought Randall Stross’ attack on Tesla yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what [Rupert Murdoch biographer] Michael Wolff has to say about MySpace. In a dinner interview with BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine, Wolff says: …if you’re on MySpace now, you’re...
- External links 2008-12-02
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