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For past few days, a screenshot captured by a Yahoo user is leading to a lot of speculation about Yahoo coming up with its answer to Google’s WiFi efforts. There are a couple of reasons why this isn’t going to happen - and none of them have to do with the fact that it was [...]

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Which is why I was totally flattered by corporate big brother Fortune’s latest cover story, How To Invest In The New Net Boom (Carefully.)
I don’t just mean that Fortune’s cover reminds me of ours (see photo). I mean that big brother is actually venturing into my territory, trying [...]

Simply Hired, a vertical search engine for jobs has raised $13.5 million in new funding from News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media and Foundation Capital. The latest round of financing brings the company’s total funding to $17.7 million. Foundation Capital and Fox Interactive Media will be getting board seats as well. I am told Ross [...]

Siemens, which sold off its mobile handset business to BenQ is said to be exploring the sale of its communications business, aka Siemens Communications, according to a German news daily. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reports on rumors of talks between Siemens and Motorola.
It was reported earlier that company might consider breaking up parts of its business [...]

Google is not a name you normally associate with corporate back end software. Sure they sell a search appliance, but that’s not setting any new sales records, leading many to believe that Google doesn’t really care much for the enterprise markets.
Well, that is about to change. Erick Schonfeld over on Business 2.0 blog has the [...]

Okay the headline is a bit misleading but there are some curious moves in the world of on-demand video. This morning AT&T (SBC) announced that it will integrate Akimbo’s on-demand video service with its AT&T Homezone service, which if you remember going to be powered by a special set-top box/DVR made by 2Wire that integrates [...]