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Ever since co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO in January, Google has been getting more businesslike, shutting down projects like Google Health and now Google Labs. While this may be a sign of maturity, it could also make the company less experimental — and less… Read More »

 
 

AOL managed to beat analysts’ estimates for revenue and earnings for the latest quarter, thanks in part to some asset sales that boosted the bottom line. But the company’s advertising business continues to shrink rapidly, even as it’s spending hundreds of millions on acquisitions. Read More »

Google today on its quarterly earnings call broke out some numbers that it doesn’t historically give (and doesn’t promise to give in the future): revenue and monetization rates for display, video and mobile advertising. The intent was to show that Google isn’t just a search company.… Read More »

AT&T’s said today its wireless division grew to account for 45 percent of revenues in the first quarter. Indeed, the carrier is betting big on wireless through the sale of phones with data plans and an emphasis on providing wireless connectivity for the Internet of things. Read More »

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz trumpeted the comeback of display ads on today’s earnings call with analysts, saying “Frankly our competition is television.” She said her company is looking to make acquisitions in 2010, including niche web content businesses. Read More »

Intel this afternoon reported fourth-quarter profits that rocketed past expectations, buoyed by a rebound in the PC market. But unlike the past two decades, the chip maker can’t count on continued growth in PC buying and other familiar benefactors to keep its momentum up. Read More »

How the Nook Nicked B&N's Q2 Numbers

For Barnes & Noble, sold-out pre-orders for the Nook were a rare bit of good news in its second quarter, but chasing demand for the device is forcing it to hike its investment in manufacturing. Still, it thinks the e-book game is one it can win. Read More »

The rich mobile carriers got a little richer in the third quarter, as the nation’s top two operators increased their leads over the rest of the field. Verizon Wireless added a million subscribers and posted revenue of $15.8 billion, up 24.4 percent year-over-year, while AT&T… Read More »

Shares of Nokia plummeted after the world’s largest handset maker posted a brutal quarter and a loss of $832 million. And while the company raised its industry outlook for the rest of the year, its dissolving presence in the U.S. is particularly worrisome. And there’s… Read More »

At first glance, it looks like eBay and Amazon are swapping fortunes. eBay’s stock rose 11 percent the day after it posted second-quarter earnings this week, while Amazon’s stock dropped 8 percent in the wake of its own report. Amazon reported better numbers —… Read More »

Microsoft is changing the way it does business and is opening up, according to a long elaborate press release the company issued this morning. I am reading through it and will try and make sense of it all. At first blush looks like the leopard… Read More »

More Must Reads

Ever since Google’s stock-withering earnings report, I’ve had the Flaming Lips’ “Waiting for a Superman” stuck in my head. Things are indeed getting heavy, and everyone was waiting for Google to lift the sun into the sky. That didn’t happen, and Google’s stock was… Read More »

Stock markets around the world are tumbling, with the Dow staying firmly in negative territory even in the face of an emergency interest-rate cut. And ready or not, the parade of technology earnings is on its way as well. A handful of tech bellwethers have already… Read More »

I am one of two founders in a startup. Both of us come from a creative background – but even though *we are artists,* we are both firmly grounded in and have a good grasp of technology and business. Still, one of the core qualities of… Read More »

One observation about this whole Web 2.0 thing – all the smart entrepreneurs are incredibly young. I just thought it would be fun to give them a little bit of a history lesson and introduce them to names, ideas, and things from the recent past –… Read More »

Xero Mobile, a MVNO with roots going back to the infamous Gizmondo device company has now gone public by executing a reverse merger with a shell company. This is the kind of move which waves all sorts of red flags. Never mind it… Read More »

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