Tuesday, November 17, 2009
How Rapleaf Is Data-Mining Your Friend Lists to Predict Your Credit Risk
They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. Joel Jewitt is inclined to agree.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Would Someone Please Explain to News Corp. How Google Works?
Yet another News Corporation executive is talking about Google, and yet again, I feel like they have no concept about how Google interacts with their web pages.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
How AdMob Brings Google Important Competitive Intelligence
In case you missed it, Google acquired mobile ad network AdMob for $750 million in stock.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Google Plans $750 Million Buyback to Offset AdMob Dilution
Google plans to buy back $750 million of its common stock to offset dilution from shares to be issued in the pending all-stock acquisition of AdMob, CEO Eric Schmidt told Bloomberg yesterday.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Merry Christmas! You Get Wi-Fi.
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all offering some form of courtesy Wi-Fi through the holiday season, at venues such as airports, hotels and Times Square.
Each has a relatively new service it’s hoping to attract consumers to, whether it’s Google’s Chrome browser, Microsoft’s Bing search engine or Yahoo’s revamped home page and customization features.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Take on Silicon Valley Wannabes
Eric Schmidt is brimming with Bay Area pride.
In the 33 years that the Google CEO has lived in the Bay Area, Schmidt says he has watched a long list of regions try–and fail–to create technology capitals of Silicon Valley’s scale.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
How Far Will Google Wave Go?
Google Wave, the Internet giant’s new online collaboration tool, has generated much buzz among developers, and now it has a large geeky fan following doing strange and relatively useless things.
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model
I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption.
Monday, November 2, 2009
App Watch: A Matchmaker in a Sea of Apps
One of the frequently heard complaints about iPhone applications is that with more than 85,000 options, finding good ones can be tricky and time-consuming. Could the answer be yet another app?
Envio Networks on Tuesday is launching Chorus, a free app that shows users the ones their friends are trying out and suggests ones that might interest them. The Andover, Mass.-based company, which has received funding from Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, specializes in social-networking technology and saw the Apple device as a good showcase for what it can do.
Friday, October 30, 2009
After Net Neutrality, Will We Need “Google Neutrality”?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mounted a recent push to turn network neutrality “principles” into official regulations–and in doing so has stirred up the net neutrality hornet’s nest once again.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Facebook Helps Developers Plan Ahead
Facebook Wednesday threw its software developers a bone, releasing a “roadmap” of forthcoming features to help them plan their products. They include new ways for software applications, like games, to messages Facebook users when their friends want to play Scrabble, for instance.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Lifting the Veil on Pricing for Health Care
It’s long been hard for health-care consumers to learn how much doctor visits or hospital stays will cost them. That’s now beginning to change, as a growing array of Web sites try to lift the veil on pricing.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
People’s Daily Site Accuses Google of “Malicious Revenge”
Google has seen its fair share of troubles in China, from having its flagship search engine blocked to being scolded for peddling pornography. Last week, the Chinese Written Works Copyright Society accused the company of infringing the rights of Chinese authors through its Google Books project.
Crowdsourcing Your Candy This Halloween
Geeks and ghouls rejoice: the Internet has come up with a way to boost your Halloween haul.
The folks at Zillow.com have created their first Trick or Treat Housing Index, which draws on the site’s real estate data to determine the top-five neighborhoods in Seattle and Los Angeles to maximize candy intake this Saturday.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Google Says It Will Limit Call Blocking
Google Inc. said it will limit the number of phone numbers its Internet phone service blocks, in a partial bow to federal regulators’ concerns that it was skirting rules designed to ensure that consumers phone calls are connected seamlessly.
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