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- Microsoft Bing: Something of a Hit
- Michael Arrington submits: Thursday may not have been Microsoft Bing Day, but today sure is. Microsoft quietly launched their new search engine without fanfare and sans parade. Last week everyone got to see the demo video and a few of us were actually able to access Bing...
- External links 2009-06-01
- Wall Street Journal Creating New 'LinkedIn Killer'
- Michael Arrington submits: The Wall Street Journal has long envied the success of professional social network LinkedIn and its 15 million or so monthly visitors (WSJ.com has just a third of that). In late 2008 they launched WSJ Community, a social network bolted onto the main WSJ site. That...
- External links 2009-07-30
- eBay in Litigation with Skype Founders over Key Technology
- Michael Arrington submits: Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, firing Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom as CEO in 2007 and paying out only 1/3 of the potential earnout wasn’t the best idea. Zennstrom seems to be holding quite a grudge. eBay is developing new peer-to-peer software to run the Skype...
- External links 2009-07-31
- Dell May Be Launching Mobile Phone in China Imminently
- Michael Arrington submits: A source with knowledge of the situation tells us that Dell DELL is launching or at least announcing a mobile phone in China in the next day or two. We are trying to verify the information and gather more details on the hardware and operating system...
- External links 2009-08-10
- MySpace Close to Acquiring iLike for $20 Million
- Michael Arrington submits: MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, we’ve confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpace’s first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 2009. The price is “around $20...
- External links 2009-08-17
- It Seems that the Safest Browser Is Whoever Is Paying Yahoo the Most
- Michael Arrington submits: Earlier Thursday Robin Wauters posted about Yahoo’s YHOO advertorial promotion of IE8 across Yahoo sites. “Get The New, Safer IE8,” says the message, which Robin viewed via Firefox 3. Does Yahoo consider IE8 safer than Firefox? Not if you visit the German Yahoo, which...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Flickr vs. Free Speech. Where Is Yahoo's Courage to Do the Right Thing?
- Michael Arrington submits: One thing I’ve learned over the years is this - screwing over your users while yelling “the lawyers made me do it!” rarely ends well. Particularly when the lawyers are just being lazy, and free speech rights are at stake. Flickr really stepped in...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Flickr Shuts Down Forum Discussion on Obama-Joker Image
- Michael Arrington submits: Oh, this just gets better and better. Or perhaps sadder and sadder. In a post Friday morning we discussed Flickr’s questionable decision to remove a photoshopped image of President Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger Joker character from The...
- External links 2009-08-23
- What?s Really Going on With Apple, Google, AT&T and the FCC
- Michael Arrington submits: Apple has responded to the FCC’s request for information around its rejection of various Google GOOG and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone. In short, Apple AAPL denies that they rejected the Google Voice application, but they go into great detail about how...
- External links 2009-08-23
- Palm Wants to Embrace Google Voice, But It May not Be Mutual
- Michael Arrington submits: Suddenly Apple’s AAPL competitors see a weakness in the iPhone, and it’s Google Voice. We’ve heard from a source close to Palm PALM that the company plans to roll out deep integration with Google Voice on the Pre phones for users who want it. That could...
- External links 2009-08-26
- VC Group Makes a Play for Skype
- Michael Arrington submits: A group of well known venture capital and large private equity firms are pooling resources to make a bid to acquire eBay-owned Skype, according to a source close to the deal. Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreesen Horowitz, Index Ventures (who...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt
- Michael Arrington submits: A week ago I had a chance to sit down for a hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There were no rules, and the whole interview was on the record. Part of the interview was on video as well. There’s...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Skype Sale Confirmed
- Michael Arrington submits: The NY Times is now confirming our report last week the sale of Skype to an investor group led by Andreessen Horowitz is imminent. The deal will be announced Tuesday, says Brad Stone and Claire Cain Miller, citing unnamed sources (perhaps people that…read our post last...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Skype Deal: eBay Actually Did OK
- Michael Arrington submits: We now have confirmation eBay EBAY bought Skype in September 2005 for $4.1 billion. Tuesday they sold 65% of it for much less, valuing Skype at $2.75 billion. It seems like a big loss, and guys like Om Malik are saying eBay shareholders should be...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Part II
- Michael Arrington submits: This is Part 2 of my series of posts summarizing a fascinating recent hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Early in the interview I asked Schmidt about the future of search. I brought up the “search is 90% done” misunderstanding...
- External links 2009-09-03
- AOL Newsroom Now Has (Wow) 1,500 Writers
- Michael Arrington submits: In June we wrote about AOL’s evolving “Toyota” strategy to evolve into an online media powerhouse just as the print media world is falling apart. New CEO Tim Armstrong hasn’t been pinned down on how hard he’s betting on this strategy in recent public appearances. But...
- External links 2009-07-30
- What If: The New New York Times
- Michael Arrington submits: Like everyone else I’ve watched the print media world fall apart over the last few years. The poster child for that industry is the New York Times NYT, of course, and their many missteps in recent memory have been well chronicled. In early 2008 Marc Andreessen...
- External links 2009-07-30
- Yahoo Shareholders Transfer $2.9 Billion To Microsoft Shareholders
- Michael Arrington submits: Anyone wondering who got the better deal today my detailed thoughts later need only look at the stock movements of Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo dipped 12.08% to $15.14, knocking $2.91 billion off their market cap. Microsoft gained 1.41% to $23.80, adding…$2.94 billion to their market cap....
- External links 2009-07-29
- A Vision for AOL: Redefine Online Content as Print Magazines Fail
- Michael Arrington submits: There’s lots of speculation on what the soon-to-be independent AOL should do to drive user and revenue growth, and stay relevant in a world dominated by Google GOOG, Microsoft MSFT and Facebook. New CEO Tim Armstrong says he’s taking some time to ...
- External links 2009-06-03
- Social Networks: Modeling Valuations in 2009
- Michael Arrington submits: A year ago we modeled out the true value of various social networks based on the idea that users in high-value online advertising markets like Japan, the UK and the U.S. were worth more financially speaking than those in lower value online...
- External links 2009-06-04
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