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AOL Seeks Directions for a MapQuest Facelift

Om Malik, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 1:00 AM PT Comments (3)

MapQuest isn’t the shiniest online mapping service. It isn’t the most accurate or the coolest. It is so old school…well, you get the drift. Apparently, that hasn’t deterred over 47 million people who check out the service every month and make it one of the top 20 web sites on the planet.
Well, it is time [...]

Different IMs For Different Folks

Om Malik, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 4:11 PM PT Comments (11)

Jeff LaPorte, co-founder and chief architect at EQO Communications, has come-up with an IM Map of the world using his company’s IM interconnect capability, showing each country seems to have a preference for a different IM network.
For instance, 77.18 percent of Argentineans love MSN, followed by 9.99 percent who love GTalk. Mexicans (83.72 percent), Brazilians [...]

Newsflash: Congress Discovers that Web Firms Track Data

Stacey Higginbotham, Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 8:09 AM PT Comments (10)

For any of us who recognize that personal privacy on the web is an illusion, the response to a Congressional inquiry asking how various ISPs and online portals target advertising and collect data will come as no surprise. Aside from the use of deep-packet inspection technology used by ISPs to insert advertising based on surfing [...]

No Takebacks: 5 Most Screwed-Up Tech Buys

Stacey Higginbotham, Friday, August 8, 2008 at 12:48 PM PT Comments (4)

As the tech world gets itself in a tizzy over Google saying its 5 percent stake in AOL might be impaired — basically it may now be worth less than they thought it was — we thought we’d revisit some of the most notable tech writedowns in history. Under U.S. accounting rules, once something’s impaired, [...]

Google’s AOL Investment a Loss

Om Malik, Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 7:45 PM PT Comments (5)

In a SEC filing, Google acknowledged that it might come out on the losing side of its $1 billion investment in AOL.
Based on our review, we believe our investment in AOL may be impaired… We will continue to review this investment for impairment in the future. There can be no assurance that impairment charges [...]

Cable Unit Boosts Time Warner’s Earnings

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 7:13 AM PT Comments (1)

Time Warner Cable reported positive second-quarter earnings (PDF) this morning that fell 26 percent but excluding onetime charges, beat Wall Street’s expectations, and said it would split AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising businesses into two divisions in 2009. Its earnings beat expectations largely because of gains in its film and its cable and networks [...]

Memo to Jerry, Steve and Carl: Just Do It!

Stacey Higginbotham, Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6:51 AM PT Comments (1)

Summer is generally a slower time for news and this summer is no exception. But the kind folks at Microsoft, Yahoo and Carl Icahn’s investment firm are charitably offering up a form of entertainment with their ongoing Let’s Make a Deal saga.
The latest installment is a letter to shareholders from Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang that [...]

State of U.S. Broadband: Demand Hits Speed Bumps

Om Malik, Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 7:24 PM PT Comments (20)

With the economic slowdown and faltering housing sales, the US broadband growth has hit a speed bump. And that’s not good news for broadband providers, who hope to overcome the odds by offering speed boosts. Even that might not be enough. Continue Reading.

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