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Earlier this month I had attended the Google Factory Tour, and one of the things which wasn’t addressed by the Google brain trust was the opportunity beyond the PC. There was no clear direction for capitalizing on the mobile boom. Yahoo, on the other hand is making it a top priority. Overture has started offering [...]

Jeff Bussgang: I saw first-hand how quickly money can fly out the door in a VC-backed consumer play and I’m worried that it’s happening again.  There’s some emerging data to support the “consumer bubble” theory.  VentureOne recently reported that in 2003, there were 183 consumer deals and $1.2 billion invested.  In 2004, it jumped [...]

Xbox Chief, J Allard, when asked if the XBox 360 was going to match old XBox’s launch price of $300, told TheStreet.com: It’s going to be in the neighborhood.

Over past few days, I have been receiving press releases announcing some company, some consultant or some CEO starting a weblog, followed by a quick call from their PR reps! In normal course, I would ignore such press releases, but having lived through the bubble, when every company’s dot.com strategy involved similar press releases and [...]

VoIP is going to be put to a high speed test at the 89th Indianapolis 500, when Cisco Systems will power a system that will let Red Bull Cheever Racing drivers - Alex Barron and Patrick Carpentier - communicate with the pit crews and also give them access to real time race data and [...]

Aussie telecom giant first announced that it would offer consumer VoIP service. Then changed its mind. And now it has changed its mind, and will ultimately offer the service, but feels that it needs to do a lot of work. In other words, a classic big phone company screw-up, or the way I see, past [...]