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- Why This Tech Downturn Won't Be Like the Dot-Com Bust
- Talk about a doom-and-gloom outlook for the tech economy. Tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis - founder of Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs, and Mahalo.com - has fired off a pretty glass-half-empty message to startups, via his e-mail subscription list. It’s been about a week since Calacanis announced layoffs...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Ad Targeter NebuAd, Already Tottering, Hit With Class Action
- NebuAd, the controversial company that was trying to sell deep-packet inspection technology as a means of delivering more relevant ads, has already had most of the life sucked out of it. Now, a class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco today, could put the final nail...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Citrix Makes the iPhone More of a Business Tool
- Business-critical applications continue their push into the mobile world and, increasingly, that world includes the iPhone - giving the popular device more respect as a business tool, instead of just a toy, and giving IT administrators one less reason to insist on the Blackberry as a preferred handset. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- NYT Opens Its Online Front Page to Blogs, Other Sources
- Have blogs become the new AP for news outlets? The New York Times has announced the launch of Times Extra, an online view of its front page that comes with links to content from other news outlets and blogs. For a long time, news outlets have been...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Microsoft Hires Former Yahoo Exec To Run Online Services
- Microsoft has hired former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its online services business. Lu will start on January 5 and report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to a CNET report. The company also announced that Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Aquantive and a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Facebook Connect Goes Live
- The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.Techmeme Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share information about...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Yahoo Wants to Make Web Mail a Competitive Weapon
- One of Yahoo’s most valuable properties is its web mail service, which has more members and gets more traffic than mail services provided by Google, MSN and AOL. Yahoo Mail was once part of the portal, another offering along side things like photo services, stock portfolios, alerts and other services...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Apple's MacWorld Bailout: The Outlook for Trade Shows
- I had already scratched CES off of my January calendar but was starting to book meetings for MacWorld, leaving time open for the Steve Jobs keynote speech, of course. But now that Jobs is sending in a second-stringer for the big spotlight event, I’m starting to wonder if I should...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Yahoo: Where's Icahn as Stock Dips Below $10?
- Sam Diaz submits: Yahoo’s YHOO stock is struggling to stay above $10, the ad deal with Google GOOG is in the history books and Microsoft MSFT has been quick to say “Not interested.” And CEO Jerry Yang has turned into the Internet whipping boy over it. But...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Google Beats for Q4
- Sam Diaz submits: Search giant Google GOOG Thursday reported fourth quarter net income of $382 million, $5.10 per share, on net revenue of $4.2 billion, an 18 percent increase, beating Wall Street’s estimates of $4.96 per share on $4.12 billion in revenue. Wall Street has been watching Google...
- External links 2009-01-22
- AOL Axes 700 Employees
- Sam Diaz submits: AOL told its employees Wednesday that it will lay off 10 percent of its workforce - roughly 700 people - to help the company work through the recession. The reductions should be complete by the end of March and a consolidation of groups within the...
- External links 2009-01-28
- Google Earth 5.0: Newly Launched Version Makes Great Learning Tool
- Sam Diaz submits: If Google Earth had been around when I was a kid, I might have done better in science, geography or even history classes. The Web app - which released version 5.0 Monday morning - is an explorer’s oasis. (Believe me. I got lost in the...
- External links 2009-02-02
- Mobile Traffic to Increase 66 Fold by 2013
- Sam Diaz submits: Mobile computing is here - and it’s only going to get bigger, according to projection studies released this week. Cisco Systems CSCO Tuesday released the results of its Visual Networking Index VNI Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013. The big projection in that study is that...
- External links 2009-02-10
- Yahoo: Not Ready to Give Up Search, Introduces Richer Ads
- Sam Diaz submits: Yahoo YHOO is getting ready to throw richer advertisements - think video - into its search results page, bringing a much-needed facelift to the boring ads that are made up of a headline, a couple of lines of text and a link. More importantly,...
- External links 2009-02-19
- Yahoo: Web Mail Is Most Trafficked Property
- Sam Diaz submits: During a meeting with analysts this week, Yahoo YHOO CEO Carol Bartz made a reference to something Larry Dignan wrote in a post on this blog earlier in the week - Yahoo Mail is becoming increasingly critical to the company. Struck by the comment,...
- External links 2009-03-05
- Google Launches Google Voice as Upgrade of Grand Central
- Sam Diaz submits: Google GOOG is taking a great service and making it better. Thursday, the company is unveiling Google Voice, a revamp of the GrandCentral Web-based phone service that it acquired back in 2007. Last year, I called GrandCentral my favorite telecommuting tool and was thrilled when...
- External links 2009-03-12
- Google Upgrades Search, Lets You Dig Deeper
- Sam Diaz submits: Google GOOG announced two new enhancements to its core search engine, specifically what you see in the results pages following your search. The first involves longer summaries of the Web sites listed in the results pages when users type in longer queries. If you’re digging...
- External links 2009-03-24
- Google and Twitter: The Timing Is Bad
- Sam Diaz submits: Thursday, Twitter announced that it was incorporating search and trends features into its home page - a move that allows users to dig deeper into the real-time conversations occurring in the Twittersphere. There’s valuable information there - as people chime in on current events, natural...
- External links 2009-04-03
- Yahoo Q1: Profits Plunge, But Meets Estimates
- Sam Diaz submits: Yahoo YHOO Tuesday reported a first quarter net profit of $118 million, or 8 cents per share on net sales of 1.58 billion. Profits were down 78 percent, compared to the same quarter a year ago and revenues dipped 13 percent. Statement Excluding items, the...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Amazon Q1: Beats Expectations, Highlights Kindle 2 Success
- Sam Diaz submits: Amazon AMZN may be taking a lesson from Apple AAPL when it comes to earnings. Forecast low, come in high and keep everyone on Wall Street smiling. The company surpassed expectations, giving much of the credit to the re-launch of its e-book reader, the Kindle....
- External links 2009-04-23
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