Champions of a more open Internet could take a small bit of cheer from Yahoo’s plans, unveiled today, to open up its mobile platform to third-party developers. But the lack of a service-provider partner to endorse the idea is one clear sign that chief Yahoo Jerry […] Read more »
I’ve taken seven of the more interesting stocks of 2007 — all stocks that inspired a good deal of passionate discussion and, for the most part, a good deal of capital gains — and ranked them according to how I think they’ll perform in 2008. Take a look. Read more »
[qi:109] Bolstered by the news of upcoming movie rentals via iTunes, hot selling Macbooks and iPod Touches, Apple just blasted past the $200 a share. So where does it go next? “There’s so much growth to look forward to for the iPhone,” said Stephen Coleman, chief […] Read more »
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Google, apparently has taken substantial amount of floor space at the upcoming Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, leading some to speculate that the company might actually be ready to launch its Android based phones. While there is certainly an outside chance of the […] Read more »
Privacy on the Internet — as Facebook’s Beacon advertising platform and other examples make clear — is not something that anyone can expect. It can be achieved, however, and maintained. Here’s how. Read more »
NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan is going to use Google search and email, calendaring and other services on its handsets that use the iMode network, according to a story that ran on the AP news wire. AP item is based on a Nikkei […] Read more »
This just in: Google’s $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick has been cleared by the Federal Trade Commission, which said it saw neither current nor potential competitive problems with the deal. Australia and Brazil have already cleared it as well, but Google cannot close the acquisition until […] Read more »
Microsoft & Viacom announced a wide-ranging agreement this morning that’s valued at about $500 million. It’s essentially a way to thwart Google’s growing influence in the online video and advertising markets. Here are the online video implications: (We will follow up with more details later.) Viacom […] Read more »
VoIP insiders have recently started talking about taking a platform approach to the convergence of web and voice, an approach for which startup Ribbit is offering perhaps the most audacious (and equally risky) strategy. Read more »
YouTube is expanding its revenue-sharing partner program, the company said today. In the past, the dominant video-sharing site had hand-picked independent content creators for its revenue-sharing trials. YouTube said it will now accept partner applications from users in the U.S. and Canada, but did not specify […] Read more »
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Just like Dell used its supply chain to keep ahead of the competition, Google is using its infrastructure to constantly increase its web presence. Building its own network, data centers, servers and more recently are part of Google’s larger plan to use its infrastructure as a strategic advantage. (Full report after the fold) Read more »
Consider the recently unveiled “any app, any device” initiative by Verizon Wireless in the context of the company’s latest quarterly results. The wireless unit of Verizon (VZ) reported year-over-year subscriber growth of 12 percent, but a mere 5 percent rise in voice revenues. Data revenue saved […] Read more »
Update: The buzz on Sand Hill Road these days is all about online advertising plays. Never mind the fact that most of the “online ad” business is living on scraps compared with the Godzilla-like Google (GOOG). The latest testimony to this craze: $23 million in new […] Read more »
Updated: Despite all the hoopla around location-based services, the fact of the matter is that a mere 15 percent of handsets have a built-in Global Positioning System. Given Google’s recent wireless push, one shouldn’t be surprised that Google is releasing an updated version of its Google […] Read more »
The about-face taken by Verizon Wireless today when it said it will open up its network and platform is, at first blush, a good thing for consumers and developers. But I just got off the company’s conference call, and there are certain details that have left […] Read more »
We have put most of the major panel and keynote clips on NewTeeVee. These include a chat with YouTube co-founder Steve Chen , CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith keynote, Mika Salmi, Search & Discovery Panel, Crossover Hits Panel, The Monetization Panel and our introduction. AT&T’s Ralph […] Read more »
Just weeks after Om brought news of Google’s game-focused advertising initiative, another — albeit much smaller — player is throwing its hat into the ring as well. After a year in beta, Alex Terry, CEO of Mountain View, Calif.-based startup NeoEdge, tells me that their own […] Read more »
Let’s play every techie’s most-favorite and least-favorite game: What will Google disrupt next? Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch has a speculative piece today on a potential Google-initiated, open-source hardware platform for set-top boxes in the mold of Android, Google’s new mobile platform. Armed with “an unconfirmed rumor […] Read more »
Google is building two different Internet switches. Here is the skinny! Read more »
[qi:032] YouTube co-founder Steve Chen during an onstage chat at our NewTeeVee Live conference responded to our questions about video quality by saying that YouTube will boost the quality of the videos, but not at the expense of user experience. Buffering and video playback delays were […] Read more »
[qi:090] Skype, the P2P voice service that cost eBay billions of dollars, might be up for sale, according to The Guardian. Currently in favour around London’s webbist community is the rumour that Google has been in negotiations to buy Skype, the web telephony firm, from eBay. […] Read more »
Google’s wireless ambitions are big, and so are the challenges. Read more »
AT&T Mobility CEO & President Ralph de la Vega is not too worried about Google and its wireless ambitions. “Running a wireless network is a capital-intensive business,” he said in a chat earlier this week. “It’s not a business for the faint of heart.” He said […] Read more »
[qi:051] Google, has been known to come up with its own technologies when dissatisfied with commercial and/or open source offerings. The company had previously started making its own server hardware. And now it seems the company engineers are building high-speed switches according to its own stringent […] Read more »
[qi:010] Google, which has been battling Facebook for talent recently, is facing an attack from another source. VMWare, the server and PC virtualization company that went public this summer, is hiring all the engineers it can find. Ann Winblad, a general partner at venture capital firm […] Read more »
The Google Android SDK, released yesterday, confirmed what had been long been rumored: Google’s mobile platform uses WebKit, an open source browser engine . “We have been working on our mobile implementation of WebKit for quite some time,” someone from the Android team wrote on The […] Read more »
Back in July we wrote about the phenomenon of independent developers contributing much-needed features to Joost, such as a frequently updated programming guide and a browser-based interface built in Flash. Well, one such project, Hal Schechner’s OnTheTube — the programming guide that helps Joost beta testers […] Read more »
Hey all of us were clammoring for 212-area code numbers, thinking how cool it would be that if we could all virtually live in Manhattan. Primus is going one step further, and now offering glocalized numbers. For ten bucks a month, you could be virtually living […] Read more »
Intel CEO Craig Barrett is hopping mad about things going wrong at Intel all the time. “Barrett says he has spoken “bluntly and directly” to his senior managers about these problems, but we don’t believe this will help. It is the plan that is at fault […] Read more »
Ever since the July issue of Business 2.0 hit the stands, I have been deluged by emails, many angry, some nice, and some downright disgusting. Many people, many reactions. I had to deal with many emails, television show or two, and the really fun live radio […] Read more »
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