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Xavier Niel, the maverick founder of Free.fr broadband service, will redefine the mobile landscape with Free Mobile, a new approach thanks to a cutting-edge network that blends Wi-Fi, HSPA+ 3G, femtocells and its all-fiber backbone, offering unlimited voice, texting and data for cheap. Read More »

To figure out why Google has declared war on the existing communications network with its experimental fiber network, I chatted with Minnie Ingersoll, a product manager for alternative access at Google. Her group works on white spaces broadband, spectrum auctions and Google’s filings with the FCC. Read More »

 
 

Rupert Murdoch is picking up his toys from the playground and going home, and kicking sand at the “free” model touted by Wired’s Chris Anderson on the way out. The News Corp. chairman has announced that, due to poor advertising revenue on the company’s numerous… Read More »

Maybe "Paid" Is the Future of Online Business

In 1988, “Saturday Night Live” aired a parody commercial deriding clumsy business models. “At First CityWide Change Bank, our business is making change,” said actor Jim Downey, portraying a naive “service representative.” After listing various ways in which his company could break a five,… Read More »

‘Long Tail-Schmong Tail, Chris Anderson’s-free-will-be-the-death-of-me.’ Or some such, griped founder Hank Williams over at Silicon Alley Insider yesterday in “Free” is Killing Us–Blame The VCs”: Venture capital has totally distorted the market. VCs are investing billions of dollars in companies with instructions to… Read More »

Aroxo: How Little Decisions Matter — A Lot

Editor’s Note: Matt Rogers, the founder of Aroxo, is a regular contributor to Found|READ, and a very thoughtful guy. I often visit his blog, Digging my own ditch , to see what he’s up to — he let’s us publish —… Read More »

East versus West

Wall Street Journal has an interesting round-up of political moves, rants and raves on the subject of outsourcing. It is not surprising all the noise coming from Washington DC, given that is an election year. On that same note, here in India, election fever is… Read More »

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