Archive for June, 2006

A couple of days ago, a post by Robert Young prompted many to point out that MySpace was not that big a revenue opportunity. It is hard to break down the numbers – analysts estimate about $200 million in the current fiscal year – but for the… Read More »

Over past few weeks, many new location based services (LBS) that leverage the WiFi networks have come to the forefront, and many of them have exciting enough offerings to give mobile phone networks-based LBS a run for their money – not that it would take… Read More »

Nick Wilson, one of the co-founders of Performancing tells me that they are all set to launch an ad-network focussed solely on blogs. (Beta sign-ups here.) The network is called Performancing Partners. All the information is on their blog. Performancing makes a firefox plugin for bloggers… Read More »

The discourse and discussion in the blogosphere today is Google Checkout. “The goal here is to make it be one nanosecond from the time the customer decides to buy to the time the transaction is complete and the product is on the way,” Eric Schmidt, Google CEO… Read More »

I am often amazed at folks who buy fancy scream machines such as Ferrari and continue to live in cities such as London, or Bombay where driving at over 25 miles an hour is a challenge. I can understand the desire to own something that sleek,… Read More »

Despite a sense of optimism that is currently running through Silicon Valley and other tech centers around the country, the technology IPO market remains luke warm. We all remember the Vonage IPO, and then yesterday more bad news. Web analytics firm, Omniture went public, and opened… Read More »

The Sly Fox

Ross Levinsohn’s wheeling and dealing to get News Corp. back in the Web game has been ridiculed by many as profligate and late. But he may yet prove them all wrong. … this is my latest article for Business 2.0, which is now available online. A… Read More »

BellSouth Expands Fixed Wireless Coverage

BellSouth will launch its fixed wireless broadband service in five new cities in the third quarter of 2006. The service will be available in some select parts of Melbourne, Fla.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Greenville, Miss.; Charleston, S.C.; and Albany, Ga. The service will have a downstream speeds… Read More »

Comcast buys ThePlatform

Comcast Interactive, a division of Comcast, has snapped up ThePlatform, a digital media services company based in Seattle, according to sources close to the company. While I was typing this up, PaidContent published the details of the deal. The purchase price is pegged at between $70 to… Read More »

Google and MySpace: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda!!

By Robert Young In the latest (July) issue of Wired magazine, Rupert Murdoch claims that Google… “…could have bought MySpace three months before we did for half the price. They thought, ‘It’s nothing special. We can do that.’” So that means Google could have acquired MySpace a… Read More »

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