Yahoo announced that is opening up its Panama advertising platform (via APIs) to third parties and agencies in an attempt to stop the Google advertising juggernaut in its tracks. The idea is that by opening up their platform, Yahoo can create more end-points in their… Read More »
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Nicely timed to compete with Google’s Street Views, a Massachusetts-based company working in stealth mode just launched a demo of their technology. Right now, going to EveryScape offers you an immersive, 3D exploration of San Francisco’s Union Square, though a spokeswoman tells me… Read More »
Avaya, the stock (AV), has been range bound, trading between $10-and-$15 a share, for nearly two years, indicating a general apathy investors have for the enterprise telephony company, that as part of AT&T, was at the pinnacle of telecom mountain. It is hardly a… Read More »
Maybe the title should be "Will blog for coffee" since I’ve got the mobile office visiting a brand new Starbucks today; I’m at the Lansdale, PA coffeehouse testing the WiFi. Unlike James’… Read More »
Updated: Alltel, one of the smaller mobile carriers has decided to go private in a deal that values the company at $27.5 billion ($71.50 a share in cash), a 23% premium over Alltel’s closing price on December 29, 2006, when the rumors of the likely… Read More »
Last year, after visiting British Telecom (BT) and meeting with their executives, I left London with one key take away: BT was one telco that completely understood that it was facing uncertain times, and had no choice but to reinvent itself to survive. The senior BT… Read More »
Broadband can finally declare victory over dial-up in the U.S. AT&T and Comcast are #1 and #2 when it comes to how Americans connect to the Internet. AOL dial-up, which for nearly a decade dominated the Internet landscape is dying a slow lingering death.
AT&T,
As a kid my after-school sitter was the outlandish and catty plotlines of daytime soaps — Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns, and the like (latchkey kids unite). Now after reading the latest on Motorola’s fall from grace and recent anti-Zander comments… Read More »
Lifelock, an online identity management and identity theft prevention company based in Phoenix has raised $6 million in Series B funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to sources familiar with the company. Lifelock is currently being valued in excess of $40 million. The company,… Read More »
Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger for Xbox 360, announced earlier today, might sound cool to some, but to us it seems like a ploy to sell more high-margin peripherals, like keyboards, thereby boosting company’s game division revenues. After all, that tactic has worked well for Apple… Read More »
Markus Gobel, our good friend from Germany lays the smack down on callback service, Jajah, for basically issuing a press release everytime they get mobile.jajah.com to work on some new mobile browser. This over aggressive PR is giving us a reason to pause as… Read More »
Hot or Not, the online dating and rating site, is about to end its main revenue stream — subscriptions — and focus instead on online ads and transactions, like selling virtual flowers. Hot or Not founder James Hong, who has gotten rich off of the subscriptions… Read More »
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